After Effects CC - Hardware zum schnellen Rendern

Hallo an das Forum, meine Frage ist diese:
die Renderzeit bei AE CC beträgt zur Zeit ca. 1 Minute für 2 Sekunden AVI-Filmlänge auf meinem iMac, i 7, 2,9 GHz (aus 2011).
Für eine 30-Sekundensequenz warte ich also ca. 15 Minuten, was ich viel zu lang finde.
Bei einer alternativen Hardware-Konfiguration auf Windows 7, mit 2x INTEL XEON E5-2680v2 (je 10 Kerne) und Nvidia Quadro K2000 lande ich bei ca. 6.000,00 EUR netto, was mich natürlich etwas geschockt hat.
Hat jemand den Durchblick und kann mir sagen, ob AE CC diese Reccourcen überhaupt ausnutzen kann (Cinema 4D und das Musikerprogramm Ableton sollen später dazu kommen)? Auf welche Komponenten kommt es bei AE CC wirklich an und wo endet der spürbare Leistungsschub?
Wäre toll. Danke !!!

Die Variablen (meine gängigen Effekte, Footages etc.) habe ich in einem Testclip definiert und bei diesem Testclip sämtliche Voreinstellungen (Multiprocessing, Caches etc.) variiert und durchgespielt, bis das Resultat (= Rendergeschwindigkeit) sich nicht weiter verbessert hat. Ich habe dabei auch CS5 mit CC verglichen und überraschenderweise keine wesentlichen Unterschiede festgestellt. Nun ist also die Hardware an der Reihe, da aus meiner Sicht 1 Minute für 2 Sekunden Film nicht das Ende der Fahnenstange sein muss.
Die oben genannte angeblich "völlig ungeeignete, schlecht abgestimmte Traumkonfiguration" ist von einem Spezialisten für Rendermaschinen ausgewählt und auf den Video- und Animationsbereich, darunter AE, zugeschnitten. Beliefert werden damit die professionellen Studios. Auch habe ich mit HP telefoniert und den Hinweis auf die Workstation Z820 mit ähnlichen Komponenten bekommen.
U.A. wird für Hardware-Performancetests im Animationsbereich das Programm Cinebench von Maxon (Cinema 4D) genutzt. Dieses gibt Kennzahlen aus der Bearbeitung einer definierten Testaufgabe mit CPU- und GPU-Vollast aus. Der iMac (i7 2,9 GHz, ATI Radeon HD 5750, 22 RAM, SSD) schneidet mit "4" gegenüber "30" der Traumkonfiguration eher schlecht ab.
Cinebench gibt für AE nur eine grobe Richtung. Leider, wie ich finde, gibt es analog für AE ein solches Tool nicht. Man muss sich also mühsam durchwursteln. Die Youtubes habe ich auch so ziemlich durch.
Könnte mir jemand - vielleicht mit etwas weniger Polemik und deutschsprachig - weiterhelfen um die grundlegende Funktionsweise von AE besser verstehen zu können? Dann kann ich versuchen, daraus die relevanten Hardwarkomponenten abzuleiten.
Wäre toll ...
Danke !!!

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This Trashcan is an option, but carries the usual disadvantages of all Apple products:
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Thanks Rick Gerard & Mylenium
Ich verbessere mein Frage:
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Zieh ich jetzt diese 3 Videos in AE oder Premiere rein, kann ich die jeweiligen clips innerhalb der
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"Je nachdem kann man dafür aber natürlich jede Menge andere Tools verwenden"
- Welche Adobe Tools meinst du?
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Folgendes Problem: After Effects stürtzt bei verschiedenen Aktioen ab. Ich habe z.B. eine Premiere Sequenz importiert, mit einem Effekt bearbeitet und das Projekt als aep-Projekt gespeichert. Anschließend habe ich es als Premiere Pro-projekt mit "Speichern unter" gespeichert. Als ich After Effect schließen wollte erhielt ich folgende Fehlermeldungen:
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ich suche eine Möglichkeit einen Mangel an After Effects offiziell zu melden.
Die Software ist perfekt und hat keine Mängel. *lol* Du hast die Software so gekauft, wie sie ist, und ihrer Nutzung zugestimmt - inklusive eingeschränkter Haftung.
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Hello,
We have a couple video workstation PC's in our office.
Premiere and After Effects have been crashing lately with increasing frequency - about every two minutes now.
Here is the setup:
Hardware
Matrox Mini - Matrox Utility release 5.5.1
Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 - Driver release 275.33
Intel Xeon X5660 2.8 GHz processors
24 GB Ram
Software
Adobe CS5.5, specifically...
After Effects 10.5.0.253
Premiere 5.5.2
Windows 7 64-bit
We have two 21" LCD monitors in dual display running from the computer, and the Matrox Mini outputs a preview signal to a 15" CRT.
The crashes occur when I have After Effects and Premiere open at the same time. I am editing in a Matrox 720p29.97 timeline in Premiere. I imported several compositions from AE into Premiere through Dynamic Link and am matching audio with the animations in comps. When I switch back to AE to make an edit in the comp, After Effects generates a crash warning and then gives me the opportunity to save the project under a new name. After saving, it closes down completely. The Matrox WYSIWYG Control Panel in the system tray crashes during AE's crash, disabling the preview to the CRT from Premiere and AE. Since the Premiere sequence is a Matrox preset - in order to have output to the CRT - this freezes the timeline; the video and audio no longer play. When I save and then try to close Premiere, Premiere freezes and will not close without a force quit via the Task Manager.
In order to deal with this temporarily, I am editing in an AVCHD 720p30 sequence preset in Premiere, which doesn't send a preview feed to the CRT, obviously, since it's not a Matrox preset and the CRT is connected via the Matrox Mini. It's more than a minor inconvenience, since I use the CRT for color accuracy.
It is frustrating, since we did not have this problem until the recent CS5.5.2 update. We have tried changing drivers for the GTX 570 and changing the Matrox utility software to other versions, but no luck.
Is there a combination of GTX 570 drivers, Matrox software releases, and AE/Premiere settings that will make this work? I know there are "Known Issue" posts with Nvidia cards on Matrox's website, which include the GTX 570, but, again, this problem started with the Adobe CS5.5.2 update.
Any help here would be great, and I am willing to provide more information about the system and our crashes if it helps find a solution for the community, as I know this is not an isolated problem after reading Nvidia's, Matrox's, and Adobe's forums. I just can't find a hollistic solution on any of the individual manufacturer's forums.
Thank You.
Jordan

I've been running with Matrox for years, starting with the Axio LE. I do 75% broadcast work and find that the Matrox works very well with my kind of workflow. Monitoring is critical and since we have to deal with 3rd. party solutions, Matrox was my pick dating way back to 2006. Sure I've had frustrations with it, but I've made far more money off Matrox than frustration.
   Here's my nearly crash-free setup:
Gigabyte GZ-X58A-OC moboard
Intel 990X (only overclocking to 4.0)
24Gb of Kingston HyperX Ram
GTX580 Graphics Card
Matrox MXO2-LE w/Max
Crucial 240Gb Sata III drive (the one that has a nearly perfect score on Newegg's site)
2 x 2Tb WD Blacks Raid 0
2 x 1Tb WD Blacks Raid 0
Win 7 Ultimatte (it's a high-end version of Windows that's great for keying!)
CS5.5 Suite
Boris Red 5
Boris Continuum Complete 8
Trapcode Shine, Form, 3d Stroke, Starglow, and Particular
Optical Flares by Video CoPilot
   The reason I list all of that software, is that it all seems to get along together, including with Matrox! So, I can't say I highly endorse Matrox because I've never tried Black Magic or running an external monitor off of my video card.
    I use After Effects with all sorts of plug ins and rarely have crashes. If I put in a long day I'll have the usual crashes here and there (mainly with PremierePro), but nothing that has required evan a soft reboot of the computer.
   My frustration with Matrox is mainly the delay that often comes with Adobe coming out with a new release and Matrox taking 2 or 3 months to catch up, though when Adobe went from 5 to 5.5, there was no delay at all.
   I think that a lot of the people who trash Matrox probably haven't used a Matrox product in years. But before you listen to me, I must confess that I was an early adopter (and advocate) of SSDs and even today, many people on this forum think they're still a waste of money!
   I'll close by simply saying that I've not left Matrox after 5+ years, but keep in mind I haven't had the bad experiences that so many others seem to have had, but again, perhaps they had those bad experiences long ago.

MBP 17" 2,3 GHz - After Effects CS5.5 is not usable - too slow

Hey!
I am a motiongraphics artist working mainly with After Effects CS5.5. I am coming from PC and I am quite new to the Mac-World. But for now I am not really satisfied - actually very disappointed. I have worked the last three years on a cheapo Acer Laptop - and I really have to say it was at least (I am not kidding!) twice as fast as my new MBP mid 2011. The other Adobe Apps don't run that good either - though I have to say I haven't had to work with them as much as with AE 5.5.
To name one thing that is really slow: Ram Preview, in the first place it takes ages per frame to render it, then mostly when it's done with rendering it is not played in realtime (more 1,2 fps ... in this range). So it's really not fun to work with this combination MBP + AE.
This can't be. The Macbook was 4x as expensive. And was build 3 years later. What's wrong with the Macbook?
My Specs:
2,3 GHz MBP mid 2011, 4 GB Ram (going to be 8 GB soon), 750 GB HDD, Hi-Res 17" Matte, OS X 10.6.7
I already tried running Windows 7 on this Macbook it was so terrible that I was kinda frightend and really just wanted to bring it back to the shop. But maybe there is some way I can fix this?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Cheers!

petershawn wrote:
And I always thought OS X / Apple Hardware was the way to go in the video-business. Obviously I was wrong all along.
The problem is OSX Lion not the specs of the hardware or CS5.x
If you can manage to revert the OS back to Snow Leopard ( which also can run 64bit software ), I bet your issues will be fixed.
And if you want to give Apples own Video-software a shot, then stay away from FinalCut X which has the same "quality" like the Lion..
Sorry, just saw that you have no Lion, I was redirected here from within Lions forum..
Message was edited by: Sjazbec

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You can't open the application "Adobe After Effects CS5.5" because PowerPC applications are no longer supported.
I tried uninstalling and re-installing the app (along with Flash Catalyst, which also fails), but the error remains. What's the deal here? Is it an installation problem, or is After Effects CS5.5 truly incompatible with my new hardware/OS? Any suggestions appreciated.

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Mercury Engine in After Effects CS5.5? Or, why is After Effects so much slower the Premiere Pro?

Take this quote :
"by Todd Kopriva on Apr 25, 2010 at 8:08:14 am
'Mercury' is a marketing name for these performance improvements in Premiere Pro: - multiprocessing
- multithreading
- 64-bit application
- use of CUDA to to some processing on supported hardware
The first three of these are in After Effects CS5. (The first two have been in After Effects for much longer.)"
However, if I drop my Canon 5D Mark II footage (h264) into Premiere Pro it plays back SO MUCH better then the exact same footage in After Effects. Why is that? I DO NOT have an NVideo card and I have NOT applied any effects or scaling to the clip, just raw footage dropped into each program.
I do notice that After Effects has to render to play back (green bar being generated above footage). But it does slow very slowly, like 9fps. Premier Pro seems to cruise right along at near realtime. This is 24fps 1080p footage. One other point of interest, I have encoded the clip into Cineform codec as well. On Premier Pro I can tell a difference, the cineform scrubs a lot smoother then the original H264 clip. But, again, in After effects both the h264 and Cineform clips are very slow to render and scrub.
Any improvements along these lines for CS5.5?
Am I just missing something obvious?
Thanks for any info,
--greg.

Gregory Seattle wrote:
I think the problem is that hitting the space bar and hitting '0' (ram preview) both draw that green bar, and both seem to use it if it is already there. I guess the real difference is how that green bar gets generated. It does seem to get generated faster when I ram preview as opposed to hitting the space bar. Using both cores I have I guess (early 2009 24" iMac).
When you hit the space bar, AE TRIES to play back as it renders each frame. Imagine what happens if it's a comp with 120 3D layers that all accept lights and cast shadows. That's why you don't use the space bar.
In a RAM Preview, AE fills up the memory available to it with rendered frames, then plays them back from RAM. Depending on processor speed, dimensions of comp & frame rate, this may or may not be real time, but there are ways to get real time. With the space bar, you don't stand a chance at real time.
Gregory Seattle wrote:
From what I hear new iMacs are due out soon with the new Thunderbolt (!) and Sandy Bridge processors/chipsets. Should be a LOT faster then what I have now.
For AE work I'd say maybe yes, maybe no. To make AE REALLY speedy, you need a lot of processor cores and a boatload of RAM. iMacs aren't known for either of those things.

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