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Subject: Re: [AE] Why a raytraced renderer?
From: Chris Meyer <chris@crishdesign.com>
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Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 16:38:58 -0600
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On Jun 7, 2012, at 4:28 PM, Roland Kahlenberg (RoRK) wrote:

> There are four approved Mac nVidia cards and I believe this has been =
the case since CS6 was launched. Here's the list -=20
> http://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects/tech-specs.html

To be fair, the 4800FX is now old (expensive and underpowered compared =
to the 4000), and the CX is ancient. And the GTX 285 is hardly a 580 or =
590.

On Jun 7, 2012, at 4:29 PM, Todd Kopriva wrote:

> That page hasn't yet been updated to add the GTX 680, the card that we =
added with the 11.0.1 update.

I'm assuming that officially, that's a Windows-only card? (Would be =
happy to be wrong.)

and statistics -
Chris

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "rendernyc" <rendernyc@gmail.com>
> To: "After Effects Mail List" <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
> Sent: Friday, June 8, 2012 12:43:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [AE] Why a raytraced renderer?
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> At this point in time the quadro 4000 is the only card with CUDA for =
the
> macpro that is supported by apple
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> so....
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> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Roland Kahlenberg (RoRK) <
> aemaillist@broadcastgems.com > wrote:
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> Hi Dan, I believe you meant to address me instead of Robert.
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> Firstly, I never questioned the quality nor the integrity of the =
results
> you obtained from the two-month long survey. My point was that it was =
a
> rather short period of time + there are Adobe employees, evangelists =
and
> sales folks who I assume are out there with customers throughout the
> year and these two groups of people should be soliciting info on a
> constant basis.
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> As for the testing, again, this is where the video evangelists and
> related sales folks could have helped out.
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> BTW, I got myself a GTX680, a week after it was released. I'm pleased
> with it and especially how quackly the AE Team got it approved for =
CS6.
> I am however concerned for others who may have purchased a Quadro,
> thinking that it's the best card for CS6 because that's what Adobe has
> been saying, consistently, in their CS6-related videos. I don't see =
this
> as being fair to AE users nor to the AE Team. The Quadro's are not the
> best card for CS6 but that has been the consistent message thus far.
> They may have been the most tested but to say anything more is not
> correct.
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> Todd has more or less agreed with my sentiments. Hopefully, users will
> get a more balanced, constructive view directly from Adobe in future
> videos.
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> Cheers
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> - Roland
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel Ramirez" < ramirezdan@gmail.com >
> To: "After Effects Mail List" < AE-List@media-motion.tv >
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> Sent: Thursday, June 7, 2012 11:52:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [AE] Why a raytraced renderer?
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> Robert, we flew people in an airplane to talk with customers about =
this
> potential decision. If you want to equate that with survey monkey, or
> simply don't want to believe it, there's nothing I can do to change =
your
> mind.
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> The Quadro 4000 card was the most extensively tested card we used in =
the
> CS6 cycle. We have limited testing resources and we chose to focus on
> testing and certifying their professional level graphics cards. Those
> videos probably mention quadro because they're likely using a system =
the
> AE team recommended. We're not going to recommend configurations we
> haven't extensively tested. If we decided to invest more time in =
testing
> ray-traced 3D, we could have focused on benchmarking the quadro vs. =
the
> gtx, but we decided to focus on testing things like our new caching
> model and the 3D camera tracker instead. You mentioned CS6 was a good
> release so I figure we made the right trade-offs.
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> No one is preventing you from using a cheaper card and I'm thrilled
> there are lower cost alternatives that meet the needs of our users. We
> take pride in offering a tool used by artists that can compete with =
much
> more expensive solutions.
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> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Roland Kahlenberg (RoRK) <
> aemaillist@broadcastgems.com > wrote:
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