From: "Bob Currier" <rcurrier@synthetic-ap.com>
To: "After Effects Mail List" <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Subject: Re: [AE] The Future of the Mac Pro in Video Post
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:53:29 -0800
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Need to add in the five copies of AE (CS5.5) plus any needed render =
licenses for plug-ins, etc.

Still not sure which is a better setup, but there are those extra costs =
for multi-machine configurations.

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On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 6:20 PM, Chris Zwar <chris@chriszwar.com> wrote:

>On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Jim Lang <james.c.lang@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Does AE work decently on a mini=3F
>
>From: Teddy Gage [mailto:teddygage@gmail.com]
>I think it depends on your definition of "decently," and of course, the
>project. Could you mock up a few quick titles=3F Sure. Would you be able to
>render a 1080p project with 5 million+ particles and a mess of 3D layers
>and depth of field=3F probably not.
>
>
>Actually I respectfully disagree.  Mac Minis come with a dual-core i5
>(i5 is what's in an iMac), if you give them enough ram they'll run After
>Effects just fine.  My home machine is an iMac that's just over 3 years
>old, it has 4gb ram and a Core 2 Duo in it.  It runs AE v5 without any
>problems and I've done a lot of high end jobs with it - it's less
>powerful than a current mac mini and is due to be replaced but it can
>still do anything I want it to (just slowly).
>
>Here's a thought experiment:
>
>If you were to buy a high-end, 12-core Mac Pro and stick 24 GB ram in
>it, the Apple Store will happily charge you $6000 for it.
>
>For the same $6000, you could buy a 27" quad-core iMac with 16GB ram,
>and 4 dual-core Mac Minis with 8GB ram.  If you use the change to buy
>Deadline network rendering software, you've got yourself a nice iMac
>workstation and a 4 machine render farm.  With dual cores and 8 GB ram,
>each mac mini can have 2 instances of AE render running at the same
>time, so you've got 8 render engines at your disposal.
>
>Would such a setup be faster than a single 12-core Mac Pro=3F  I don't
>know.  But it's worth thinking about...
>
>
>-Chris
>
>
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