Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv — Message #43108
From: Anders Sundstedt <sundstedt@hotmail.com>
Subject: AE CS6 Multiprocessing vs OpenGL Preview with CUDA-enabled card(s) for 2D-animation
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:55:37 +0100
To: <ae-list@media-motion.tv>
Hi,
 
I’ve currently got an i7 CPU and 12 GB RAM, Windows 7 64 bit and a ATI FirePro V3800 (FireGL),
 
My question is, would buying a new graphics card with CUDA-enabled or even installing a second CUDA-enabled card (a pair of same card) give faster previews and/or final renders (OpenGL enabled) for 2D animations?

Currently, when doing 2D only animations, assets mainly large .psd files and using Puppet-Pin tool (perhaps a 3D camera but no 3D-objects or 3D-effects) it seems faster to select Adaptive Resolution, OpenGL off, using only the i7 cores and RAM.

My goal is to not have to wait so long for a preview, to work faster.
 
Also, how come scrubbing (Ctrl + LMB) is so fast (feels like real-time) but when doing a RAM-preview, it’s so slow? (like having to wait for audio mixing before it actually starts to render preview). I’d just want it to be like scrubbing but at a constant speed.
Best Regards

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