Return-Path: Received: from exprod6og110.obsmtp.com ([64.18.1.25] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 4713693 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Sun, 13 May 2012 18:52:57 +0200 Received: from outbound-smtp-2.corp.adobe.com ([193.104.215.16]) by exprod6ob110.postini.com ([64.18.5.12]) with SMTP ID DSNKT6/nTqIIlEUD+OVjB9+PZSlQD8jXxEo+@postini.com; Sun, 13 May 2012 09:54:41 PDT Received: from inner-relay-4.eur.adobe.com (inner-relay-4b [10.128.4.237]) by outbound-smtp-2.corp.adobe.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id q4DGsbIf012665 for ; Sun, 13 May 2012 09:54:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nacas03.corp.adobe.com (nacas03.corp.adobe.com [10.8.189.121]) by inner-relay-4.eur.adobe.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id q4DGsaYr013799 for ; Sun, 13 May 2012 09:54:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nambx09.corp.adobe.com ([10.8.189.47]) by nacas03.corp.adobe.com ([10.8.189.121]) with mapi; Sun, 13 May 2012 09:54:36 -0700 From: Todd Kopriva To: After Effects Mail List Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 09:54:00 -0700 Subject: RE: [AE] details of After Effects CS6 GPU features and requirements Thread-Topic: [AE] details of After Effects CS6 GPU features and requirements Thread-Index: Ac0t9o5IqgoEAK6zSlK5wXyKjh9GbQDMUYug Message-ID: <3087C3EE109D634A82116DB24F8B48450CA8188C@nambx09.corp.adobe.com> References: In-Reply-To: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-cr-hashedpuzzle: As7T B7m6 CMH/ CuaH DHWB DWeT Dht4 D9IS D9n1 D9wr ETiL EY06 FU1A GSew GvAT Ihpd;1;YQBlAC0AbABpAHMAdABAAG0AZQBkAGkAYQAtAG0AbwB0AGkAbwBuAC4AdAB2AA==;Sosha1_v1;7;{10CB74B3-8DBD-4899-A89E-8E12171FF954};awBvAHAAcgBpAHYAYQBAAGEAZABvAGIAZQAuAGMAbwBtAA==;Sun, 13 May 2012 16:54:00 GMT;UgBFADoAIABbAEEARQBdACAAZABlAHQAYQBpAGwAcwAgAG8AZgAgAEEAZgB0AGUAcgAgAEUAZgBmAGUAYwB0AHMAIABDAFMANgAgAEcAUABVACAAZgBlAGEAdAB1AHIAZQBzACAAYQBuAGQAIAByAGUAcQB1AGkAcgBlAG0AZQBuAHQAcwA= x-cr-puzzleid: {10CB74B3-8DBD-4899-A89E-8E12171FF954} acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 > Who would I contact at Adobe to find out if a Quadro GPU not currently > supported wild be supported, or why it's not supported? The "why" part is easy: testing. We are committed to making After Effects stable and reliable---as well as f= ast---so we must thoroughly test every card that we say After Effects will = use to provide these features. We have finite testing resources, so we can'= t test every card.=20 If you look at what we've been doing for the related GPU-processing feature= set in Premiere Pro since CS5, you'll see that we've been adding cards to = the list quite rapidly in frequent updates and upgrades. I can't say exactl= y what we'll be doing in the future, but you can probably guess based on pa= st behavior. Regarding the question "Why don't you just allow any card with certain mini= mum specifications?"... You may have seen how that worked out for us when w= e tried it with OpenGL features in previous versions: very, very badly. It = was so bad that nearly everyone turned off the OpenGL features because they= were unreliable at best and caused crashes far too often. We will _not_ re= peat that experience with the current GPU feature set. We need to make Afte= r Effects rock solid, and that includes being somewhat conservative with wh= at hardware we will endorse for certain features. If you want to request that a specific piece of hardware be added to our li= st, please submit a feature request: http://www.adobe.com/go/wish