No cuda/mercury for AE cs5!!

[Charles Angus]

I thought Adobe already stated that the mercury engine wont be available for AE, i think that was last year and i forgot which post indicated this. But this is to be expected..Adobe never said anything about mercury engine for AE.

I just cant believe that they still dont have "cache to disk" function.

Kind of a glaring oversight, eh? Especially when RAM previews get thrown out if you think about them too hard.

You can always do it manually, but that sucks.

 

[David McGavran]

Much faster...

Much faster...

AE is a very different software than PPro. CS 5 is much much faster all around though and you can now do a ton more with 64 bits. We worked extremely hard on the MP performance and it is noticeable.

Cheers

Dave

 

[paulherrin]

I just cant believe that they still dont have "cache to disk" function.

that's pretty much what rendering is... but i do get what you're saying.

i think we will see significant speed improvements in this version though... i'm not too concerned because i hardly ever use it for anything personally. i'd like to check out those new roto tools though... they would at least be a good place to start doing roto work!

 

[RivaiC]

I hope with the 64bit implementation, this would not be a problem.

The workflow becomes painful when the RAM is not sufficient to cache. This is where cache to disk becomes useful is such situation.

The roto tool looks cool.

RV

 

[Uli Plank]

In day-in-day-out use, stability is a very important factor of experienced speed! Loosing work or even footage can easily ruin any speed gains from a GPU…
That said, AE is much more stable with huge images like 4K with clean 64 bit memory management. I think Adobe did the right thing leaving 32 bit behind. But speeding dozens of layers in a compositing environment by GPU is very different from a few layers in an editing environment…

Mercury is the marketing name for the whole CUDA + 64 Bit thing, not GPU acceleration alone.

 

[Steve Cee]

CS5 is still much faster than CS4 is full 64bit and can use all the ram you can throw at it now.

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/adobe/story/after_effects_is_faster/