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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. ----- Bob Currier rcurrier@synthetic-ap.com Synthetic Aperture voice: +1 949 493-3444 Helping Make Your Work Look Its Best fax: +1 949 203-2108 web: www.synthetic-ap.com 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? > >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? Sure. Would you be able to >render a 1080p project with 5 million+ particles and a mess of 3D layers >and depth of field? 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? I don't >know. But it's worth thinking about... > > >-Chris > > > > >+---End of message---+ >To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> > |
