Re: Help understand rendering time on iMac 2.16 versus Dual 1.8 by Kevin Camp on May 1, 2008 at 2:43:17 pm
[Milton Hockman]"Is it because it was AE 6.5? Does CS3 work better on intel?"
yes. cs3 is a universal binary (intel native), and ae7 and earlier are powerpc only.
ae7 and earlier will run on an intel mac, but it has to run under rosetta (powerpc emulation). rosetta limits the resources available to the intel mac, and thus hurts performance. there was a post here at the cow and also posted on adobe's ae forum, that helped explain this, and had suggestions for settings that increased performance of ae running under rosetta, if you are interested...
Re: Help understand rendering time on iMac 2.16 versus Dual 1.8 by Raymond Tuquero on May 1, 2008 at 3:34:12 pm
I agree with Previous post by Kevin. Once you get into CS3 AE ... You will notice a HUGE difference.
I felt the same way when I upgraded equipment. There was not much of a difference in Speed from my G5 and my Intel Mac. Then when I got the CS3 Package, it was a major surprise. I love the setup. Do a trial of CS3 AE and see for yourself what I mean. (but don't do any major projects on the trial; You can't go back to AE7 once it is created in AE CS3 ... just in case you didn't know)
