Re: after effects future releases and Mac compatability

Hi... thanks.. Darby

I am now very confused. What do you mean by "instance"?

I thought that AE could only use up to 4GB of the ram and therefore a 16GB ram would be a waste of money and 12GB would be never used.

If I have a HD sized animation project with one 4000 framed comp (long... I know!) with say 3D layers, a light and a camera and say 2 adjustment layers and 10 layers of taga sequences. This takes me 50 mins to render out as yet another taga sequence. Can be previewed with difficulty..depending on resolution... in sections by moving the bar along and purge purge purge.... on a Mac book pro. 4GB 2 core 2.5ghz

The apple shop seems to know little about the working speeds of AE with their machines... so If I got a Mac pro how much easier will it be on animations of this sort of size please, any ideas, assuming using multiprocessing etc. 4 or 8 core, as I must have got my facts and understanding of AE's needs. Are you saying that maybe my render would be 5 mins, instead of 50 mins referring to your quote of 10 x faster, cos that would be brilliant? What about previews?

Thanks muuuucho

Thanks for all your help
Anita Sancha.

www.anitasancha.co.uk