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On Jun 5, 2012, at 10:43 AM, email blanca wrote: Ahh, then it can be a small SSD, right?
Yes. But not too small; it's easy to fill 10s of gigs with the new After Effects CS6 cache. For laptops, I think around 120 GB is a sweet spot given today's pricing and capacities. 200+ gig if you want to put the OS on there as well, and/or work on a lot of large-format projects. There seems to be quite a premium for the 480 GB drives right now.
BTW, a very in-depth article on SSDs:
- Chris
On Jun 4, 2012, at 3:57 PM, Chris Meyer wrote: No; what I meant to say was that SSDs are recommended by Adobe for use as program caches - especially for After Effects.
On Jun 4, 2012, at 1:29 PM, email blanca wrote: ... Cache drives ... you mean the hybrid design of a SSD and HDD integrated where the SSD caches much of the data that is heavily used by the OS and apps?
On Jun 4, 2012, at 3:22 PM, Chris Meyer wrote: They're recommended for cache drives.
- Chris
On Jun 4, 2012, at 1:14 PM, email blanca wrote: I had issues with (2) OCC SSD. After about a month of solid use, I started getting error messages and corrupted files. I was using one SSD for OSX and another for windows. I have read you can get better reliability with specific SSD technology, but it has been about 6 months since I stopped using and following the topic.
Is the SSD worth the investment and potential trouble? The drives are pretty speedy and time spent waiting on OS booting and apps opening is pretty significant. If you conduct routine backup of your drives, any failures are easily overcome. Any SSD of a decent size (250GB) or larger will start to cost you some $$$. Personally, I decided to go with the WD RE4 series drives instead.
Good luck.
RJ ... On Jun 3, 2012, at 4:45 PM, Louai Abu-Osba wrote: Speaking of hard drives, are there any recommendations for the newest generation of SSDs? I'm looking for application cache as well as system.
-louai On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Teddy Gage <teddygage@gmail.com> wrote:
Found the plugins after I posted, particularly useful was the split exr layers to comps script in that package, also definitely noticed the speed boost in file handling. Now I just need faster storage and more hard drive space. These fluid sims and exr sequences eat up space like nothing else. Speaking of which, I need faster hard drives.
On Jun 3, 2012 3:48 PM, "Todd Kopriva" < kopriva@adobe.com> wrote:
Brendan has updated the ProEXR plug-ins beyond what is included in After Effects. I recommend installing the new version for the speed boost:
http://fnordware.blogspot.com/2012/04/proexr-17-available.html
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> Subject: Re: [AE] Best open EXR tools?
>
> I haven't upgraded to CS6 yet but it sounds like you still need to use
> the ProEXR plugins. I was hoping for better integration of EXRs in
> After Effects with CS6, unfortunately that doesn't seem to have
> happened, but I will keep my fingers crossed for the next version...
> the pain with using a plugin to access EXR channels is that it changes
> the rendering order from what is 'normal' and so masks can be effected,
> and I don't think frame blending works at all.
>
> AFAIK to use EXRs in After Effects you just use the free After Effects
> plugins, which were also included with CS5.5, so I don't think you need
> to buy anything if you're only using AE.
>
> -Chris
>
>
> On 03/06/2012, at 6:46 AM, Teddy Gage wrote:
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> What tools do you guys use for compositing 3D exported open
> .exrs? Is it still the ProEXR plugin or is there something better? or
> free? I know photoshop can't view multiple layered EXRs at this point
> right?
> Thanks
>
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