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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 - > 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 > ----- 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? > > At this point in time the quadro 4000 is the only card with CUDA for the > macpro that is supported by apple > > > so.... > > > > On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Roland Kahlenberg (RoRK) < > aemaillist@broadcastgems.com > wrote: > > > Hi Dan, I believe you meant to address me instead of Robert. > > 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. > > As for the testing, again, this is where the video evangelists and > related sales folks could have helped out. > > 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. > > Todd has more or less agreed with my sentiments. Hopefully, users will > get a more balanced, constructive view directly from Adobe in future > videos. > > Cheers > > - Roland > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Daniel Ramirez" < ramirezdan@gmail.com > > To: "After Effects Mail List" < AE-List@media-motion.tv > > > Sent: Thursday, June 7, 2012 11:52:34 PM > Subject: Re: [AE] Why a raytraced renderer? > > > > 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. > > > 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. > > > 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. > > > > On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Roland Kahlenberg (RoRK) < > aemaillist@broadcastgems.com > wrote: > > > > > > +---End of message---+ > To unsubscribe send any message to < ae-list-off@media-motion.tv > > > > > > -- danny princz > > exposedideas.com > > +---End of message---+ > To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> |
