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when will after effects use Metal.

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When will ae use Metal?

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    Correct answer Todd_Kopriva

    Someone's getting fired


    ‌Let me try to clarify:

    What David showed on the Apple stage was a demonstration of the potential that Metal has for After Effects, as well as for other Adobe creative applications. In his role leading our R&D group, he has committed us to pursuing performance in general as well as specifically with Metal on the Mac platform. But that is not a statement about specific timing of when these features will be publicly available, nor is it a promise about exactly what parts of the application will be taking advantage of this technology when that time comes.

    My statements here have been meant to prevent the misunderstanding that there is a specific short-term commitment to release features of this nature in any specific version of After Effects.

    I apologize for the confusion.

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    Todd_Kopriva
    Inspiring
    October 3, 2015

    We are currently exploring various technologies for GPU acceleration, and Metal is one possibility, but we have made no commitment to any specific GPU acceleration technology at this time.

    adamneer
    Participating Frequently
    October 3, 2015

    Whatever you go with, please make it one that doesn't depend upon a proprietary technology from a single card manufacturer.  Mac users get vey little choice in graphics cards and Apple as of late has been completely ignoring Nvidia.

    Inspiring
    December 3, 2015

    I have the same "problem" with the new macbook pro mid2015 and the GPU AMD Radeon R9 M370X 2048 MB. I guess needs some update. My old iMac early 2009 with nvidia GPU support that just cause cuda. Hope you guys will come with an about soon

    p.s also illustrator have compatibility issue with the new macbook pro (mid2015) and the multi GPU (I've turn the GPU auto switching of and is working fine)


    AMD cards are supported by After Effects. If they weren't supported, you wouldn't be able to use it period. There's a lot of misunderstanding about this issue.

    The only disadvantage I've noticed to having an AMD GPU is that Raytracing is not GPU accelerated. So, if you are using AE's 3D tools just use the Classic 3D Renderer...not Raytracing. Most heavy 3D work can easily be done in C4D or Element 3D and make AE's raytracing/3D options a poor choice on projects. I have the newest Mac Pro and have not found this to be an issue whatsoever. It still kills my old Mac Pro in terms of RAM previews and overall rendering.