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1. Re: What should I upgrade first?
Szalam Mar 1, 2012 1:29 PM (in response to Seastage)Upgrading your hard drives will not speed AE up at all. The best thing would be more (and faster) processor cores and make sure you have 2-4 GB of RAM per core.
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2. Re: What should I upgrade first?
bogiesan Mar 1, 2012 1:39 PM (in response to Szalam)Never heard of a gtx480. Buy a new computer.
But even that won't make After Effects tangibly better unless your current mashine is more than four or five years old. After Effects is all about math, Teraflops may get the equations processed faster but the images still have to be recalled from drives, moved around, written out to various locations and then displayed. The physical movement of data is pretty much going at the speed of light now.
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3. Re: What should I upgrade first?
Seastage Mar 1, 2012 1:55 PM (in response to bogiesan)The gtx480 is the graphics card. It's a decent card when using the hack to get the Mercury Playback Engine to work.
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4. Re: What should I upgrade first?
bogiesan Mar 1, 2012 3:23 PM (in response to Seastage)Ah. Graphics card is not quite but pretty much useless for After Effects in its present form.
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5. Re: What should I upgrade first?
A.I.1 Mar 1, 2012 6:34 PM (in response to bogiesan)Graphics card is not quite but pretty much useless for After Effects in its present form
Doesn't a good open-gl compatible graphics card speed up "realtime view-ability"
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6. Re: What should I upgrade first?
bogiesan Mar 2, 2012 7:29 AM (in response to A.I.1)Maybe.
OpeGL may or may not make any differnce to yoru previews at all, it's a question of how you work whether the illusion of speed is a good tradeoff for the inaccuracies. On a Maciontosh it's all nonsense, OpenGL remains a bit of a joke.
But there is a common misperception that graphics cards somehow improve AE's performance and that is not the case.



