Return-Path: Received: from mout.perfora.net ([74.208.4.194] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP id 4766030 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 21:20:27 +0200 Received: from mbp-17.westell.com (50-55-11-251.waus.wi.frontiernet.net [50.55.11.251]) by mrelay.perfora.net (node=mrus0) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0M1Uxt-1RyYHv3coj-00t31b; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:23:52 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1278) Subject: Re: [AE] element demo From: Steve Oakley In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 14:23:51 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: To: "After Effects Mail List" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1278) X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:aTp4EQrUBiXFVrbwnPjTnS2QPwwJVZIYKXilaTiK7Dt zyeupkdT1SKZOn2BbKjH0pcM8xChH4BAEoeZPV/7mh7Fkwk1nh Z4lFbxq79XRuQ1hckU41dg7Y7m8TdyPaxQ/G+J/o8tkbvLuXlF sp2HpBevH6cteLmIvixPFpxctjduKTxFrfP2q4uleEjAQCe0MF 1q1VY0ZOJifNrJ6P4BUGnGP+Jnb8sL0/WaR7N2PiPb8creNZPU HUUeSyhXbkgXvLOtPMtiZl07YJUSKhWZAAIVW7d90jZ7BC+7Ig s5GN3Ro2jRA0YmYfOtxmatcOVgGyBFgNyBOvAxYG1E+7I90O2I oPGLuVHA70QPyRJXTHeAtZXBa8gYsAdXun77nfrGyqL48L0DvA GYXd8wO3oKeSw== huh ???? element supports nV GPUs including quadros. no where did it say = that nV wasn't supported, or that it offered any significantly different = performance - given which ever generation of hardware you have or plan = to get. a 570/580 would be perfectly good giving you CUDA for AE / PP = and OGL for E S On Jul 5, 2012, at 10:58 PM, scott.aelist wrote: > After a week of research, I decided on a Geforce 5xx card instead of = an ATI radeon 7970, because the ATI doesn't support CS6 raytracing. But, = (forgive me if this sounds brash), this Element plugin seems to be way = more powerful and flexible than the built-in CS6 extrude feature. = Wouldn't it make more sense to buy hardware that supports this plugin = instead?