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Playback/Render
by Michael Cozy on Oct 13, 2009 at 4:43:42 pm

Hello,

I have been trying to work in Toxik/Maya Composite for a few weeks now, and have found it potentially quite powerful. However, I cannot get anything approaching a decent playback or render speed. Also, whether I get any playback at all, or just the "I'm working" spinner seems to be luck of the draw (if I move down the timeline while it's thinking things really grind to a halt). My playback problems aren't at all related to complex node trees, just playing back a tiff sequence I've loaded up is problematic. I have read the bits about playback optimization in the manual, and I wouldn't be bothering you for just a tweak, few fps here or there. Something is seriously off. I'm seeing hardly any action in Activity Monitor when I playback/render. Could it be where my cache is located/caching options? Do I need to utilize scripts to use all my system resources properly (for playback and render)? I've got a Mac Pro 8-core Nehalem, running 10.5.8, w/ 14gb RAM and a RAID that does +950mb/s read and +700 write.

Thanks in advance, any hints to drop about the release of your comprehensive dvd tutorial, Ken??

Michael



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