Working on a Sunday Morning...

[Jay_Blanchard]

Sorry, just had to rant. I'm in the office waiting for an AE project to render out, and I'm realizing that the last thing in the world I want to be doing on a Sunday morning is sitting in my office, waiting for an AE project to render.

So, on to something else--such as, if Adobe ever teamed up with someone to build a turnkey system that allowed AE to run realtime, they would completely own the market. And I would become the happiest man alive. Other than daisy-chaining a bunch of computers together, are there any good hardware components on the market that excellerate render/preview time drastically?

 

[Zoomforce]

Re: Working on a Sunday Morning...

There is a company that sells a Cube render machine, that basically is 4 Pentium 4 computers stacked in one box... Its kinda like a turnkey render farm, however they dont need to farm out the renders as it acts like one system. Sorry, I have no idea what the company was called, just that it was cool. Something like redbox or something.

 

[grinner]

Re: Working on a Sunday Morning...

imagine.. someone in the video industry working on a weekend.

no way.

 

[Sol M.]

Re: Working on a Sunday Morning...

Unfortunately, as of right now (or whenever you're reading this ), there is no way to get AE to run realtime.  It has no hardware support of that kind, nor does it look like it will for some time.  AFAIK, Apple's Motion is the first motion graphics-type program that provides anything closely resembling a realtime workflow.  That is its best feature despite all of its current limitations.