It's truly one of those applications that can sell hardware. We think it's awsome what Adobe had done to upgrade and refine After Effects CS3 so that it takes full advantage of all the cores (and all the memory) available in each Mac (both PPC and Intel). It's like creating a "render farm" within a single Mac. There is a check box that enables "render multiple frames simultaneously." When checked, AE spawns a process for each core called "aeselflink" and grabs up to 3GB of real memory per process. The big news with After Effects CS3 is that it's not only written in Universal code (native for both PPC and Intel Macs), but it has a special feature called "Multiprocessing" which is enabled in Preferences. Though we added our After Effects results to previous articles on the 8-core Mac Pro, we decided to devote a special page to showing the dramatic the performance gains achieved not only by moving to the 8-core Mac Pro but upgrading from After Effects 7 to After Effects 8 (aka CS3). I think we have found it: Adobe After Effects CS3. Though Apple has created Final Cut Pro and Motion to compete with Adobe Premiere and After Effects, it's ironic that the programmers at Adobe "show the way" when it comes to squeezing maximum speed from the 8-core Mac Pro.Īs you know, we've been fishing for an application that, by itself, can justify the purchase of an 8-core Mac Pro.
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