After Effects HD Effects

HI:
I need to purchase a workstation that allow me to make Visual effects in After Effects with footage from HD SR 4:4:4. I will recieve dpx sequences, I will make the effects and I will deliver DPX or Tif sequence with the effect done.
If I am not wrong each DPX frame will be between 12 and 15 MB/s.
I need to know if this workstation I am thinking is OK for that.
QuadCore
8gb or 16gb of RAM memory
Nvidia Quadro FX 1500.
1 PC standart monitor 21'
Windows XP 64Bits
1 PC monitor that allow me to reach 1920x1080 preview.
Since AFter effects is not a real time software, do I really need to have a RAID storage that deliver 450MB/s of effective transfer rate to have real time playback?
Wouldn't it be more important to have lots of RAM memory like 16gb to load large video previews in real time ?
Thanks to all
Andrew

I don't quite follow. I think you are over-simplifying and misinterpreting things. First off, the length of a RAM preview is not only determined by the resolution, but also by the processing bit-depth. Previews can be quite a bit longer than 5 sec if run at 8bpc instead of 16bpc or 32bpc.
Secondly: Everyone uses proxies! They all do. Even realtime systems such as flame* merely live by using lower-res placeholders in many situations or lowering the actual on-screen render resolution. In addition, they simply pre-render a lot, which is only logical, considering that the required processing would otherwise prevent realtime playback anyways, regardless of available other resources. It really boils down to those systems rendering the frame and storing it to disk rather than doing RAM previews.
The only thing that really makes a difference is that these systems can do this to some degreee in an automated fashion and as a background process while still doing work in the foreground. That's probably the part where AE is lame, but then again you can always buy NucleoPro to get this functionality to some extent.
As an last item, it also comes down how you understand to use your program. Obviously AE has a disk cache, but of course it won't be of any use if you are constantly invalidating it by doing all your work in one big 500 layer comp. Therefore be smart: pre-compose! If the key lives in its own comp, it will only be rendered once and then cached to disk.
As for the rest - at some point correctly rendering everything is inevitable for screening purposes. You simply cannot expect to preview your work and get final approval on your workstation, regardless how perfectly it may be calibrated to match the final output.
So to conclude: You pretty much only need to establish a workflow that allows you to take advantage of your hardware resources. Get a hellishly fast RAID, use pre-composing in a sensible manner, have a decent graphics card andm ake use of pre-composing and, if you wanan afford it, NucleoPro's features. With that, you can much more rely on playback from scratch disks rather than spending endless hours for RAM previews and worrying about that they always seem to not last long enough.
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