Nucleo Pro 2 on leopard
by Mark Larue
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Jan 8, 2008 at 4:49:46 pm
I am running AE cs3 on a dual quad core mac with 8 gigs of ram. I purchased Nucleo Pro 2 to maximize my render speed, but am noticing some unexpected results.
1.) Render Speed is not much different that just running cs3, however activity monitor shows cpu's being almost fully utilized.
2.) Noticing much better render speeds using AE's own multiprocessing option turned on. About 4 or 5 times faster than Nucleo Pro running.
I'm not sure if this has something to do with Leopard or not. I cant find any information on the Gridiron site.
Any insight or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Re: Nucleo Pro 2 on leopard by Chris Cooke on Jan 8, 2008 at 8:14:53 pm
Mark,
It will depend on what you're doing in that render.
There are some situations where a straight AE render will be faster. Examples would include rendering out footage into a different format or resolution with little else happening. The bottleneck there is reading and writing the footage files, not calculating frames.
Another possibility would relate to the effects in the comp - there are some things that Nucleo can't load up in more than one worker process (but Adobe may have found a way around).
Finally there may be memory limitations - have a look at the Nucleo status icon and choose the Resource Settings item. The line that reads "Max BG RAM Cache" indicates the size the worker RAM Cache was set to - if it's too small then you might want to lower the "Max number of CPUs to use" to a smaller number. That allows less processes to get more memory which may improve things if you are working in complex or memory-intensive projects,
