CS5 is when AE got 3D features. It took 11 years to get extruded text (except for the cycles that shipped Invigorator), which was apparently designed for those comfortable buying a $1000 GPU for their tower computer. Personally I'm OK with Nvidia acceleration, though my card is much slower in AE. I expect most already caught this article: http://prolost.com/blog/2012/6/4/fast-ray-tracers.html --- On Wed, 6/6/12, Daniel Ramirez <ramirezdan@gmail.com> wrote: I'm not seeing how CS5 is relevant to the conversation. The visit(s) I'm referring to were conducted Dec 2010 - Jan 2011. In any case, I don't have a time machine and if I did, I'd be watching the sun be born or maybe do something dinosaur related. On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Rich Young <aefilter@yahoo.com> wrote: Too bad Adobe can't get on the same page as a company for 3D features. CS5 was a long time ago. The customers we visited that were interested in doing simple text and shapes in 3D were comfortable buying a $1000 GPU for their tower computer in order to use the feature. It's possible we visited the wrong people,...