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Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 23:35:37 -0700
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From: Zax Dow <zax@zaxwerks.com>
Subject: Re: Mac Pro with AMD FirePro D500 and AE CC Ray traced 3D
Cc: Alex Dow <alex@zaxwerks.com>
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Peter,

If you want to do 3D inside of AE and need a program that will really 
take advantage of the new Mac Pro, have your client get version 8 of 
ProAnimator.  It is absolutely real-time 3D rendering with final 
quality DOF, Ambient Occlusion, shadows, normal mapping and light 
beams, and near-real time (and still improving) with ray trace 
inter-object reflections and refractions.

The new Mac Pro is more than 3 times faster for GPU final renders and 
almost twice as fast as our other machines in our ray trace timing 
tests.  As a point of reference we have a test scene of a car with 
over a million polys which renders faster than real time in GPU Open 
GL rendering and does a full ray trace of a 1920 x 1080 frame at 
about 2 seconds per frame.

Version 8 is in beta at the moment and will be shipping within a few weeks.

Best,
Zax

www.zaxwerks.com

At 12:01 AM +0200 4/16/14, After Effects Mail List wrote:
>Hello Guys and Girls,
>
>my client just purchased a Mac Pro with a Mac Pro graphics card. To 
>my surprise
>After Effects CC doesnt recognise the graphics card and hence I cant 
>accelerate
>my ray traced 3D projects.
>
>Any ideas on how to resolve this??
>
>Thank you
>Peter