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> I really want to hear from people who may have been using such a setup to run After Effects in a high-end production environment. I run AE for Mac that a friend donated to me on my Hackintosh but it’s not a high-powered box and obviously not my primary machine. It has been stable although I occasionally have boot issue if something odd is plugged into USB or firewire. Although you can build a very fast AE machine (faster than any shipping Mac) as Hackintosh, unless you buy a tested rig and stick to that hardware religiously, follow the build to the letter and don’t update anything on the box until some else tests, it’s a good bit riskier and more fragile than either a MacPro or Window 7 64-bit. Plus, it’s a DIY box – i.e. no support and warranty like you would get a Mac, HP, Boxx, Dell workstation. Personally, unless the cost of moving to Windows was cost-prohibitive, I would use a DIY box that was Hackintosh ready primarily as a Win 7 64-box and dual boot with a Hackintosh – so you can boot into MacOS to work when you have to, but you still have a functioning machine if the Hackintosh breaks due to system updates or minor hardware changes.
stephen van vuuren 336.202.4777 http://www.outsideinthemovie.com/ A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. –Stanley Kubrick |
