WHY AFTER EFFECTS STILLS SO SLOW IN THE NEW MAC PRO?

[duranduran]

I have the new mac pro with this settings:

3 GHz 8-Core Intel Xeon E5

64 GB 1867 MHz DDR3 ECC

AMD FirePro D700 6144 MB

Software OS X 10.9.2

And the AE performs slower than in my old mac pro. I have set the preferences as seen on all those tutorials on this site, I have an SSD external disc for cache files, memory and multiprocessing settings correctly...and previews are very very slow, and I can not even render a single comp without waiting 10 minutes. I am very disappointed and frustrated with this situation...

Am I missing something?

[mgk132]

I found this very helpful.  I have a brand new Laptop with all the bells and whistles - Fastest i7 processor, 32GB Ram, All SSD internal drives (5TB total in 2 stipe sets), GeForce 980 (Desktop Equivalent) - and my Render and Previews were horrible. 

I looked at all the basic performance settings and had no obvious issues.  Didn't realize some features were grayed-out that I needed, because I expected to have all the options available to me.

I knew performance needed to be better - because It hadn't been this bad since before they instituted Ram Previews (remember those days!).

So I searched more and found this Video - How to Enable GPU Acceleration (CUDA) in Premiere Pro or After Effects - YouTube

And found out that my newer Graphics Card was not listed in AFX device listings (it was recognized in Premiere though!).  I made the suggested Change and now my ram previews are performing as expected.  Not sure if Rendering will be better.  But I'm usually sleeping during those anyway... its the work-a-day preview that I needed to be responsive.

Anyway hope this helps some of you.

[FlavourDigital]

Can you do this with new new Mac Pro (which does not a CUDA card)?

[Dave_LaRonde]

You can't.  No CUDA?  No hack.

[FlavourDigital]

Anyone want to buy a 2013 Mac Pro?

[Pat481]

Switch to motion/ final cut and cut your work day in half. The fact that this thread has 56000 views show that this is a widespread issue, probably poor optimisation of the software and trouble shooting isn't going to help. For every one angry comment here i wonder how many non partisipants have experienced the same thing

[RealSting]

Andrew: In principle I would agree but I don't think the purchase of a MacPro is the argument here. With ALL major software developers the manufacturer has a responsibility (to a lesser or greater extent) to the customer to keep the software up-to-date. Many if not all of the plug-in manufacturers for FCPX updated and some redesigned their software to take full advantage of the the new MacPro. It was a no briner to them because FCP already had a vast following (over 1,000,000), and FCPX and the new MacPro would be taking on much of that. This was also the case with the redesign of the audio/graphics layer(s) (metal) in El Capitan. - So if they can do it, WHY CANT ADOBE?!

Yes.. Adobe Premiere users are more likely to be using PC's !!

[RealSting]

After much deliberation I have decided NOT to renew my CC subscription. As a FCPX Editor After FX is an unacceptable bottle-neck to my workflow: no real time playback is the biggest issue and the horribly long render times as a result of no graphics card support - Adobe obviously have no interest in the capabilities of the Late 2013 MacPro so consequently I have lost interest in Adobe. There are other more capable (non-subscription based) solutions out there.

Thank you to all those previous that helped where they could.

bye!