Return-Path: Received: from idcmail-mo2no.shaw.ca ([64.59.134.9] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP id 4711752 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Fri, 11 May 2012 00:51:37 +0200 Received: from lb7f8hsrpno-svcs.dcs.int.inet (HELO pd7ml2no-ssvc.prod.shaw.ca) ([10.0.144.222]) by pd7mo1no-svcs.prod.shaw.ca with ESMTP; 10 May 2012 16:53:15 -0600 X-Cloudmark-SP-Filtered: true X-Cloudmark-SP-Result: v=1.1 cv=GZn8e3lTBEeJrlGK3+GUWyR5aYe1SJcDn5uEERMe9yQ= c=1 sm=1 a=aanwr3ToRf0A:10 a=UHe3VLlD0YYA:10 a=BLceEmwcHowA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=eKXIpUdvvUuNoUlWbWopEQ==:17 a=5xD6XcvPrnPq1hEwabcA:9 a=qNyeGSv5QSbB4VrRBEUA:7 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=HpAAvcLHHh0Zw7uRqdWCyQ==:117 Received: from unknown (HELO Dale-Baglos-Computer-3.local) ([184.66.43.81]) by pd7ml2no-dmz.prod.shaw.ca with ESMTP; 10 May 2012 16:53:14 -0600 Message-ID: <4FAC46D9.6030401@shaw.ca> Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 15:53:13 -0700 From: Dale Baglo User-Agent: Postbox 2.5.3 (Macintosh/20110907) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: After Effects Mail List Subject: Re: [AE] 2 gfx cards in a workstation and cuda acceleration References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit All this recent talk of graphics cards and the release of AE CS6 with Mercury hardware acceleration has me considering a switch from FCP to Premiere Pro (I have PP5 at the moment because it came with the Production Premium suite) My late model 2010 model Westmere 8-core Mac Pro tower has the ATI Radeon 5770 card that it came with, and I'm currently driving TWO 30" Apple Cinema Displays. I'm toying with the idea of buying a Quadro 4000 for Mac. Is that the best way to get more smooth playback of multiple high def video streams? (I don't do any 3D work yet.... but I guess if I upgraded to the newest AE I would certainly dabble in it from time to time.) -dB