After Effects CS6 on new Mac Mini?

I know this has been asked in other ways before... But would the newly announced Mac Mini be sufficient to run AE CS6? Not making movies for Pixar or anything, mainly minor projects but still need and want the basic features of AE vs. iMovie or Final Cut...
Thanks for any thoughts.

According to:
http://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects/tech-specs.html
It should run, though the after market card they add for rendering obviously won't be something you can add to your Mini.

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After Effects CC and new Mac Pro with FirePro D700

Hello
I'm about to purchase a new Mac Pro, 64GB RAM, SSD 512, Two AMD FirePro D700. Working with post-production software basically use Adobe After Effects CC, my doubt is whether the normal After Effects continue working on this new machine. If it is fully compatible with this video card and if all resources will have a better income. And what can you tell me about the Ray-Traced with these video cards.
Thank you.

• Adobe does not support AMD cards with their ray-trace renderer, and are unlikely to do so in the future.
• Cinema 4D Lite, included with AE CC, uses the CPU, not the GPU, for rendering.
• The third party plugin Video Copilot Element 3D is GPU dependent, and they have pledged support for the Mac Pro display cards.
• Adobe has hinted at substantial improvements to AE multi-threading efficiencies in a coming release. The implication is that more CPU cores will be better utilised in the future.
I will be buying a new Mac Pro soon too. What the above tells me is that After Effects will continue to be best served by faster and more multi-cored CPUs, rather than better GPUs. For my money, I will stick with the cheaper D500 GPUs, and get a better CPU option.

After Effects and the new Mac Pro

I recently got one of the new Mac Pros and it doesn't get along great with After Effects, particularly when it comes to ray-tracing. There is no Nvidia GPU option for the new machines, so ray-tracing defaults to CPU. But then, even with a simple solid, it gives you an out of memory error. I've seen postings saying this is fixed in 12.2 but I've got 12.2 and the newest CUDA driver installed and run the machine with all other apps closed, but no luck. Presumably I'll figure out how to get it running after a fashion eventually, but even then, even with the new machines' many fast cores etc, CPU ray-tracing on the new Mac Pro is not looking promising on the speed/usability front.
Element 3D is an option, but its reflections can't interact with the comp the E3D object is within, only with the environment map in the plug-in itself, so there are many cases where it's a poor substitute.
My question isn't really how to get ray-tracing to work with the new machines. That would be great, but my sense is the answer there is, it effectively can't.
My question is, given that motion graphics increasingly involve the complex interplay of light, reflection, transparency, and three dimensional objects, and that from here on out Mac Pros will no longer accommodate nvidia cards, and that many creative types will only work on Macs, how long will this state of affairs continue? How long can it continue? Are there any plans to make After Effects fully functional on the new Mac Pros? Ray-tracing has always been balky and wonky and prone to error messages and crashes, but despite all that it's also an indispensible part of After Effects.

A fun update, long after the fact:
So I've learned Cinema 4D in order to reacquire the capability After Effects once offered internally and have succeeded after a fashion. Let's look at the relative ease of the new method versus the old one using a real-world scene from my project: Adding a bus shelter over actors on a bench.
In ray-trace enabled After Effects of old, I could draw simple draw shapes in Illustrator, extrude them into objects, collect them under a null and position it in my scene. Particularly powerfully, I could bend 2D photograph layers into half-domes for a fun roof, and create planes of transparent glass of any thickness I chose with refraction levels that made for interesting visuals as actors moved behind it, and add reflectivity to any layer I chose -- including the dome roof, for instance, which would then pick up the reflections of any other objects in my scene. I could also put 2D layers in front of my bus shelter as easily as placing a layer closer to the camera than the makeshift model. Well, sometimes it didn't work as advertised; sometimes you also had to have the foreground layer above the background one in your comp even when both were 3D and that wasn't supposed to still apply, but at least it was After-Effectsy. The whole thing was After-Effectsy, which of course is good because presumably AE users know AE, but also it was similarly logical.
To achieve a similar end with C4D and Cineware, all you have to do is this: Build your bus shelter model in Cinema 4D. Wait, first learn Cinema 4D, a hugely complicated piece of software. Come back in 3 months, I'll wait. Hi again. I see you've built your bus shelter. In fairness, you were able to add textures and complicated curves you couldn't in After Effects. But then you always could, if you were willing to learn a hugely complicated piece of software. Anyway, let's get that model into after effects. Just drag that C4D project into your AE project and put it in the comp. Put other layers in front of it or behind it. Easy! Now just a few caveats. 1. Scale. There is no formula available anywhere for the relative scales of your two projects. So tweak that. Just go back and forth between the two software suites -- I hope your computer can have both up and running at the same time! -- until you get that right. 2. Cameras. You can import your AE camera into C4D and vice-versa as easy as pressing a button in Cineware. It shows up somewhere strange in C4D unless you use a workaround unless you are also camera tracking in AE in which case you can't. 3. Scale again: Your camera will match its moves in both suites now. But they are drastically different sizes. If you import your C4D camera into AE it becomes tiny tiny tiny, if the scale of commercial C4D models is to be considered at all standard. Just shrink your model down to say 1% and you should be good to go. And if you tweak your camera in AE or C4D, you have to junk your imported camera and re-do that step. 4. Reflectivity. Your C4D model will only reflect items in your C4D project, not the, um, scene it's going in. 5. Refraction. Transparent C4D items will indeed show your AE items behind them. But you can't add refraction. 6. I've saved the best for last. Say you want your actors in your bus shelter, meaning part of the model is in front of them and part behind them. You used to place them (shot on a greenscreen or roto'd) in the bus shelter model. Now you simply do this: Divide your bus shelter model into halves, the in-front half and the behind half. Put both under nulls. Give the front null a C4D "tag" called compositing. At least its name makes sense. Then go into the tag and enable a numerical "object buffer." You're almost done! Next simply go into "render options" in C4D and into "multi-pass" there and then enable object buffers again there, so intuitive! Make sure to enable the same numerical object buffer you enabled in your compositing tag. Good? Good! Now, all you have to do is place two copies of your C4D project heirarchically in your AE project. You're still almost done! Now all you have to do is go into "multi-pass" in your Cineware plug in in the instance of it that goes in front of the actors and specify your numerical object buffer again. Wait, one tiny thing: If your Cineware plug-in is still set on the default "Standard" setting that option will be grayed-out. Just switch it to the much slower-rendering C4D opions and you're good to go! And don't worry about two copies of your C4D project in your AE one meaning it will now take twice as long to render, because it will. But, as a bonus, you've probably learned a lot of ways to render C4D models really well when learning C4D because Adobe made you. So you can use those to make your AE comp really shine... or wait, could, but they're not supported. You can however render it in that flat ugly video early Pixar style, but life is full of trade offs, no? You end up rendering out the layer you need in C4D and comping it into AE exactly as effects artists have done ever since always. Which is to say AE gave up even trying to do 3D and sent you into the waiting arms of a more-capable competitor, their seeming specialty in the world of video. Maybe it's better this way. AE was only ever for comping. It briefly got a swole head. Now it's back in its comfort zone. The end

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There is no option for export prores 422 from after effects cs6 on new mac os 10.8.2 shows up and works on older mac 10.6.8
How can I get this option back?

I will guess that you used to have Final Cut Pro, but you no longer have it. Generally, only machines with Final Cut Pro installed are able to write to ProRes 422.
There are third-party codec packages that do write to the ProRes family of codecs. They have been discussed in this forum, and you could search for their names. I'm sorry to say that I don't remember them.

Adobe After Effects CS6 takes FOREVER to lock existing frames before rendering

My After Effects CS6 locks up for 3 minutes "Locking Existing Frames" before it even begins to start rendering, every time I need to preview anything - even at the lowest possible quality.
The render goes perfectly normal - it is not the rendering that is the problem - it is the "Locking Existing Frames" process BEFORE rendering that freezes up my computer for 3 minutes, and ruining my life.
I am using Adobe After Effects CS6 on a Mac Book Pro with a 2.9 GHz Core i7 processor (2 cores) and 8 GB of RAM.
Please help me understand what is happening when it is "Locking Existing Frames," and what some solutions could be to reduce the amount of time it takes to do this.
ALSO: I have scoured the Web for hours looking for the answer to this problem, and to this point it has never been solved. If you can solve this issue, Adobe should give you a promotion and $1 million.

Hi Rick and Greg,
Thanks for the quick responses. Below are all the details to all your questions. Also - just to emphasize again - my rendering goes super awesomely fast. It is not the rendering. It is the "Locking Existing Frames" process before the rendering that is ruining my life.
FREE MEMORY:
This is brand new Mac Book Pro with hardly anything stored on it.
The 8 GB of RAM is split into 2 memory slots, each with 4GB of RAM
3RD-PARTY CODECS:
I am not aware of any third-party codecs in this system. I imported some fonts (ITC Franklin Gothic) and some video files (see below), but I am not aware of any third-party codec installed on this system.
DISC CACHE:
My Disc Cache is enabled
My maximum disc cache size is 69 GB
I do not have a seperate "fast hard drive" or "SSD" seperate from my main hard drive, where I store my footage.
MPEG SOURCE FILES:
If by source files, you're asking about the video files I imported:
2 MP4s (5 sec. each)
3 QuickTime .mov (3 sec. each)
1 Audio-only FLV. (2 minute background music throughout video; used to be a Premiere working file)
MULTIPROCESSING
Turned off, but still locks up forever before rendering.
ADDITIONAL FUN FACTS:
Here are some additional observations that might help:
It doesn't just take a long time to start rendering; it freezes my entire computer for the duration of the "Locking Existing Frames" process - putting my entire life on hold for 3 minutes, every time I need to preview a minor detail... It's a nightmare.
The video is 1 min. 45 sec. long so far, and has 15 sec. to go.
The video is comprised of 99 percent motion graphics, and 1 percent actual footage (Occupy Wall Street hates my footage)
The complexity in this video is that there are a lot of compositions inside of compositions inside of compositions, but even when I go to the very beginning of the first comp - where the only animation is a line being drawn with the "Stroke" effect - it still takes 3 minutes to "Lock Existing Frames."
Again... The rendering goes super fast after the "Locking Existing Frames" process. The problem is NOT with the rendering. The problem is the "Locking Existing Frames" process BEFORE the rendering starts.
This is my job and I can't do efficiently until I solve this problem, so I will be very responsive until we can identify the issue.
Thanks again for all your helpful responses!

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I'm having trouble downloading and installing After Effects. What do I do?See troubleshooting documents, post in the Downloading, Installing, Setting Up forum, or contact support. For details, see this blog post or this FAQ.
What are the system requirements for After Effects CS6?See this article.
Does After Effects CS6 work with Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)?Yes, update to After Effects CS6 (11.04) for that capability. More info in this blog post.
How do I prevent After Effects CS6 from crashing when I use Illustrator files?Prevent this issue by turning off the preference Create Layer Markers from Footage XMP Metadata in the Media & Disk Cache preferences category. More info in this blog post.
I can't open the composition mini-flow chart. What do I do?See the workarounds in the following blog post.
Is there a 30 day trial available for After Effects CS6?Yes, subscribe to the free version of Creative Cloud, then download After Effects CS6. More info here.
I'm getting errors related to QuickTime. What do I do?See this blog post for troubleshooting items related to QuickTime.
What are the GPU related features in After Effects CS6?See this blog post for details.
Do I need new plug-ins for After Effects CS6?See this blog post for information.
I'm getting errors after applying the 3D Camera Tracker or Warp Stabilizer to a long clips in After Effects CS6. What do I do?See this blog post for more information.
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How do I get started with After Effects CS6?See this blog post.
Where can I find tutorials for learning After Effects CS6?
See this blog post.
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Issue: What are the top new and changed features in After Effects CS6?See this blog post.
Issue: How do I optimize After Effects CS6 for best performance?See this article.

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Reinstall after effects cs6

How can i reinstall after effect cs6 on my mac using the code my school gave me? I keep getting this message ( This serial number is not valid for adobe after effects cc)

Well, reinstall CS6, not CC.
CS6 product downloads
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Trying to launch After Effects (CS6 11.0) on a new Mac with system 10.9.5 - - Error Message reads: 'You can't use this version of After Effects with this version of OSX' - What should I do?
Any suggestions/help would be greatly appreciated!

As Szalam says, install the updates:
http://adobe.ly/AE_CC_1201_Mavericks

Will After Effects CS6 support the new EVGA GeForce GTX 680 for Mac?

With this new graphics card out will Adobe/Mac OS X add support for it in AE CS6 for excellerated graphics and ray traced 3D? Also, will Adobe bring back live 3D from Photoshop to AE?

Sorry, should have been more specific. I was referring to this desktop card the Gforce GTX 680 (mac edition) http://www.evga.com/articles/00730/. I just saw a recent article about its release but not sure how long it has been out and not sure what evga is. I'm in the learning phase of all the ins and outs of graphics card compatibility and the manufactures intent. I'm curious about inserting it into my Mac Pro 2010 and getting improved performance along with accelerating my processing in After Effects CS6 since it has an ATI card with no CUDA architecture. Want to beef my RAM too. So I'm wondering if this card is A. Compatible with my machine/OS and B. If Adobe will add it to its list of supported CUDA cards. Again, not sure if this is an Adobe thing or an OS thing, I heard on some tutorial video that Mac OS is part of the issue. I am aware of the current state of limbo Mac Pro users are in with Apple's hiatus from a major update to this line. But even with a major new release my employer won't be in the market for that kind of investment which sucks because I'd like to move to thunderbolt for my video storage. Personally, I'm investing in a MBP with the 650M card which I've done tests with and it beats my Mac Pro with having CUDA. As for 3D layers from Photoshop to AE it is just kind of makes sense as well as being a price point issue. If you can draw and create 3D objects in PS why not be able to animate them in AE? Just like being able to animate AI and PS layers, it should be one big happy Adobe family, no? Why pay for Cinema 4D if I don't need it for everyday advanced 3D work? I do however love the Element plug-in from Video Co-pilot and it works great so that is my solution for now, then 4D if I get into more advanced custom 3D. But still you should be able to make 3D objects in PS and bring them in to AE, it just makes sense.
Thank you for your time!
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Nvidia quadro 4000 for mac and os 10.6.8 on After Effects CS6 (11.0.2) Cuda don't work

Hi,
We bought an Nvidia Quadro 4000 for Mac for use RayTrace on After Effects CS6 (11.0.2) with our Mac Pro 5.1 on OS 10.6.8.
And the Mac lost the Cuda driver when we restart it.
We use the Nvidia driver 256.02.25f01 for Mac Os 10.6.8 and we made test on different Cuda driver (4.1.25, 4.2.10, 5.0.37 and 5.0.47).
When we install Cuda driver and start directly After Effects 11.0.2 it’s works (after effects see the GPU processor).
But when we restart the Mac and try to launch After Effects, AE doesn’t see GPU processor and ask to install Cuda driver 4.0 or later.
Do you know this problem ?
Do you have a solution ?
Thanks.
And sorry for my English !

Hi All,
I'm having the exact same problem on 10.6.8 with a brand new Quadro 4000. My CUDA preferences are up to date, but After Effects CS6 is not seeing the card.
GPUSniffer gives me some really weird results, which I've included. Of particular note there is a repeated "just leaking" message, an "invalid drawable" and "Did not find any devices that support GPU computation."
Anyone have a fix for this? We just dropped a lot of money on this card so I could squeeze some more life out of this workstation (Mac Pro 4,1 dual quad 2.66 with 12GB RAM).
Last login: Fri May 31 10:20:47 on console
edit-e-room-20:~ johnlee$ /Applications/Adobe\ Premiere\ Pro\ CS6/Adobe\ Premiere\ Pro\ CS6.app/Contents/GPUSniffer.app/Contents/MacOS/GPUSniffer
--- OpenGL Info ---
2013-05-31 10:28:52.456 GPUSniffer[71708:903] *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x1046095a0 of class NSCFString autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
2013-05-31 10:28:52.458 GPUSniffer[71708:903] invalid drawable
Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer: NVIDIA Quadro 4000 OpenGL Engine
OpenGL Version: 2.1 NVIDIA-1.6.37
GLSL Version: 1.20
Monitors: 2
Monitor 0 properties -
   Size: (0, 0, 2560, 1600)
   Max texture size: 16384
   Supports non-power of two: 1
   Shaders 444: 1
   Shaders 422: 1
   Shaders 420: 1
2013-05-31 10:28:52.467 GPUSniffer[71708:903] *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x10411d900 of class NSCFString autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
2013-05-31 10:28:52.467 GPUSniffer[71708:903] invalid drawable
Monitor 1 properties -
   Size: (2560, 0, 1600, 1200)
   Max texture size: 16384
   Supports non-power of two: 1
   Shaders 444: 1
   Shaders 422: 1
   Shaders 420: 1
--- GPU Computation Info ---
Did not find any devices that support GPU computation.
2013-05-31 10:28:52.471 GPUSniffer[71708:903] *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x1041234d0 of class NSCFArray autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
2013-05-31 10:28:52.471 GPUSniffer[71708:903] *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x1041236a0 of class NSCFArray autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
2013-05-31 10:28:52.471 GPUSniffer[71708:903] *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x10411c030 of class NSView autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
2013-05-31 10:28:52.471 GPUSniffer[71708:903] *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x10411c030 of class NSView autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
2013-05-31 10:28:52.472 GPUSniffer[71708:903] *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x10411b000 of class NSCFArray autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
2013-05-31 10:28:52.472 GPUSniffer[71708:903] *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x104110e00 of class NSCFArray autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
2013-05-31 10:28:52.472 GPUSniffer[71708:903] *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x10411ccc0 of class NSView autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
2013-05-31 10:28:52.473 GPUSniffer[71708:903] *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x10411ccc0 of class NSView autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
edit-e-room-20:~ johnlee$

Impossible d'utiliser After Effects CS6 11.2.2, sur MAC OS X 10.9.5

En essayant d'ouvrir After Effects un message d'erreur apparait : Impossible d'ouvrir cette version de l'application "Adobe After Effects CS6" avec cette version d'OS X. Vous avez "Adobe After Effects CS6 11.0.2.
Comment faire pour activer l'application ?
Merci de m'aider à résoudre ce problème.
AnyT

Merci pour le retour rapide.
Bonne journée.
Pier..
Le 13 oct. 2014 à 17:26, any611 <[email protected]> a écrit :
Impossible d'utiliser After Effects CS6 11.2.2, sur MAC OS X 10.9.5
created by any611 in Forums en français - View the full discussion
Bonjour,
en fait je suis allé sur le chat en ligne d'Adobe (car ils n'ont pas d'aide par support téléphone) et là j'ai discuté avec des techniciens qui m'ont redirigé vers l'aide en ligne Américaine (ma licence est Canadienne) puis un technicien m'a aidé à faire la manipulation. Sur le chat en direct, il faut écrire le 1er message et attendre qu'un technicien soit libre pour répondre, cela peut prendre un peu de temps. Sinon, si je me souviens bien, j'ai téléchargé une mise à jour sur le site Adobe, là j'ai obtenu 2 icones, et j'ai simplement cliqué sur AF ingéniering en premier puis sur AF application, ensuite et tout s'est mis en place (si on clique directement sur AF application, ça ne marche pas). Mais je ne peux que vous conseiller de demander l'aide en ligne par chat qui à mon avis est très efficace.
Bonne chance.
AnyT
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After Effects cs6 crashs on almost everything after new install

Hi,
I bought a new SSD to install Windows 7 64 bit and the software I'm used to working with on. After that install After Effect crashes as soon as I import a file. I've read other treads about the temp file paths but there all at %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Tem I've haven't changed any settings.
Please if anyone can help!

While I was updating the update manager said I need to close the ''Dynamic Link Media Server'' or something like that while the update manager was the only programm that was running, could something be going wrong there? Are there known problems with the dynamic link media server''?
What version of After Effects? Include the minor version number (e.g., After Effects CS5.5 with the 10.5.1 update).
After Effects cs6 with lastest update
Have you installed the recent updates? (If not, you should. They fix a lot of problems.)
Yes
What operating system? This should include specific minor version numbers, like "Mac OSX v10.6.8"---not just "Mac".
Windows 7 64 bit, fresh install with servcice pack 1
What kind(s) of source footage? When telling about your source footage, tell us about the codecs, not just the container types. For example, "H.264 in a .mov container", not just "QuickTime".
Every type of footage I import
If you are getting error message(s), what is the full text of the error message(s)?
It just shuts dows
What were you doing when the problem occurred?
Importing footage
Has this ever worked before?
Yes, before the install
What other software are you running?
Nothing
Do you have any third-party effects or codecs installed?
No, I did install new catalyst drivers for vga
Tell us about your computer hardware. Include CPU type and number of processor cores, amount of RAM installed, GPU, number of disk drives, and how any external drives are connected.
Amd 4x 3000, 8gig, radeon 6450, one ssd
Do you have any third-party I/O hardware (e.g., AJA, Matrox, Blackmagic, MOTU)?
No
Are you using OpenGL features in After Effects?
No
Does the problem only happen with your final output, RAM preview, or both?
I don´t get there
Are you using Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously multiprocessing?
No
What is the exact sequence of steps that you are taking?
New install, both Windows and Ae, new vga drivers.

Adobe After Effects CS6 - how to uninstall/reinstall or transfer license to a new computer

My old computer has crashed, and so I built a new one recently. I have been installing all the applications for it, downloading files, so on and so forth. I recently insterted one of the hardrives from my old computer, and was able to see the files I had from my old computer. All of my adobe applications are on there, and I can see them, however; I cannot use them, which is okay, since most of them were free applications that I could download from the website. But Adobe After Effects CS6, which is the application I really need, does not open it; instead, it reads: "Configuration Error: Please uninstall and reinstall the product. Error: 16". I bought the CD for After Effects last summer, but I cannot find it anywhere. I heard you don't need the CD to transfer the license to a new computer, but I can't figure out how to do this.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, since after building my computer, I have absolutely no funds nor interest to buy another After Effects CD.
Thanks,
John W. King
Other information:
-OS: Windows 7 SP1

You must have the activation number provided when you purchased your CS6 product. If you don't, find proof of purchase (a receipt or credit card statement) and call Adobe Support.
Download your CS6 product here:
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/cs6-product-downloads.html
Install it and activate with your activation code.

Bootcamp will no longer boot after deleting partition #3 of my new Mac Mini. What happened? Was it the way I tried to reclaim the HDD space for Mac?

Here's my dilemma. I have a new Mac Mini - a week old. I installed Windows 7 on it using Mac's Bootcamp assistant. I then set up and configured my Windows 7 world and everything worked fine. No issues logging in between Lion or Win7 via the restart/option key procedure. Well, yesterday I split my Mac HD partition one more time to create a third partition (was created as an "extra", e.g. possible future partition for another operating system). After creating it, I then decided that I didn't really need it. So I deleted it in Disk Utility and attempted to drag the Mac HD partition line downward so as to "fill in the gap" and reclaim the lost hardrive space. It seemed as if I could reclaim about 1 gig or so, but I figured...oh well.
Well, the Mac HD partition seems to work just fine, but now I've noticed that I can't get into the Bootcamp partition anymore. It wont boot. If I try to verify the partition [doesn't even give me "repair" as an option), then it fails and gives me the following error message: "verify volume failed. invalid request." When I go to the Startup Disk option in my System Preferences section, it displays the bootcamp partition as a folder and not as a drive anymore.
I'm assuming that I messed up some permissions or lost some vital links during my attempted resizing/reclaiming of harddrive space. How do I fix this without having to reload either all of my Mac info or all or my Win7 info? I'd hate to consider the last two days of my life loading this crap up a complete loss.
Thanks in advance!

Thanks for checking in, BDAQua.
Problem solved.
In the docs that came with my Powerlogix accelerator card, I found this sentence buried:
"If you reset the PRAM, the NVRAM code for OS9 compatibility is cleared, so you will have to boot from the Firmawre Update CD and perform this process again in order to boot in OS9."
The "process" it's referring to is the process of setting up the NVRAM for booting into OS9 from the CD.
Fortunately, I was able to find the disk, and it worked as expected. I can now, once again boot into OS9.
Conclusion: My (unadvised) attempt to load Leopard on this old machine apparently reset the PRAM on the accelerator card and cleared the NVRAM code for OS9 boot. Although I did attempt to reset the NVRAM via Open Firmware, it did not reset it on the accelerator card.
So, thank you BDAQua, for your "Ah yes" . . . that's all I needed to steer me in the right direction.
Gratefully,
tupester

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