Re: REDBOX by Dave LaRonde on Mar 20, 2008 at 5:57:39 pm
[Nicholas Toth]"Anyone use REDBOX in AE? "
I'd think that after the short-lived ICE'd After Effects fiasco of about five years ago, people would have gotten the message.
Acceleration hardware and the applications modified for them are good only as long as advances in hardware stop cold. And when was the last time THAT happened?
REDBOX -- about as useful as an antimatter-powered buggy whip, I say.
Re: REDBOX by Nicholas Toth on Mar 20, 2008 at 6:28:38 pm
I doubt the plugins would be used, but moreso for just the brute force and convenience. Convenience is something I've never had in an AE farm, I found that the watch folder feature is a bit finicky, and I usually set things up by hand over 5 or so boxes (your typical skip existing frames feature). Not bad, and it takes about 10 minutes and some patience.
Contemplated an app like RUSH, but I'm not much of a developer if things go wrong. Waiting for someone to release a shake qadmin setup for AE, but that seems hard to find. We're entirely OS X, if that matters.
Random question, anyone use the new digieffects product yet (damage i think..)? Is it worth it? Its cheap, and may work well hand in hand with Twitch.
Re: REDBOX by Nicholas Toth on Mar 20, 2008 at 6:51:40 pm
Dave,
I guess I'm confused. Even if we don't use the plugins, the ability to farm out locally to a 32 core machine for convenience would outweigh the inconvenience of the potentially realtime crappo hardware based plugins.
Re: REDBOX by Dave LaRonde on Mar 20, 2008 at 7:07:39 pm
Perhaps because I didn't register on that Redbox site, I'm not getting the full story. I smell a rat when someone wants me to register just so I can learn about a product.
The hardware accelerators I know that use popular software like AE -- but have to custom-modify it for the box -- ususally don't accept third-party plugins. There are too many available, and you never know when a new version will show up: you can't control third-party plugins. So you can easily find yourself hamstrung if you need, say, Trapcode Particular.
Besides, in a year's time, a fancy hardware accelerator's speed can probably be trumped by newer and faster processors running on ordinary computers. But if speed is all you want, and you want it right now, fine. Get it. If your business has the volume that would justify such an expense, that's great.
Personally, I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole.
