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| a windows/mac mini combo works great for me. i begin ae 6 projects on a windows machine, render as png sequences with bg renderer, then bring the folder in to ae6 on a mid 2011 mac min with only 8g ram, and render the png sequences for fcp as prores 4444. no real render hit on the mini, as it's just assembling the frames and packaging up in prores.
Perfect timing on this post Teddy. We were also looking at the latest mac mini. My only concern is the graphic card requirements for CS6 compatibility (AE and Premiere). I know the mini can be upgraded to 16mg ram but does the graphics card have the horsepower for CS6 to do the job for rendering etc. Anyone have experience with it? Or is there some online compatibility / performance reference? Thanks! Linda
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or even better, get one of the new quad core i7 mac minis. All the speed of a brand new laptop for 1/3 the price, and better connectivity. Even cheaper if you get it on ebay. worked great for me.
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Jim Curtis <jpcurtis@me.com> wrote:
Sounds like somebody has a case of the Mondays.
I interpreted the post as a plea for more info on ProRes, and didn't detect a platform preference, or any mention of encoding or decoding (other than transcoding to h.264 from ProRes).
Anyway, according to what I read here, there is a solution to create ProRes on Windows:
Or, buy a cheap used Mac laptop that runs Compressor.
If you could just go ahead and make sure you do that from now on, that'd be great.
On Feb 11, 2013, at 8:20 AM, mike cardeiro wrote: ________________________________
From: Jim Curtis <jpcurtis@me.com>
The decoder for Windows is free from Apple.
The decoder may be free, but the OP is talking about encoding, which, as far as I know is not free on pc. Personally I am getting tired of everybody I deal with assuming that pro rez is no problemo for me. I recently needed to upload a commercial spot for a station and the specs said they wanted prorez, and the instructions sent from the station talked about how to do this from your final cut project which would all be well and good if I wasn't editing on Avid! sorry to rant but it is Monday morning.
Mike Cardeiro
Editor/Animator/Compositor
D4 Creative Group - Philadelphia, PA
http://www.michaelcardeiro.com/resume/
http://www.youtube.com/user/mcardeiro
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