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 - Chris

On Jan 9, 2013, at 3:15 AM, Peter Mock wrote:

Hello Guys,

I am exploring the new ray traced 3D extrusion feature in AE6. I am very excited about it 

and was a little irritated because of the enormous render time (over 5hours for only 10s)

I was irritated because after watching Brian Maffitt's 'Global performance cache' tutorial on 

Adobe TV http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-after-effects-cs6/global-performance-cache/

I was under the impression that the days of long renders are over.

Am I missing something here?? I am running AE6 on a MacBook Pro Mid 2009, 2.66Ghz,

dual Core with 8 GB RAM

You can watch the movie on:

http://vimeo.com/56914935

I am grateful for any suggestion

Thank you

Peter