thinking about getting the dual gigger
Now I am still doing the 'evaluation' to see if it's worth to trade BOTH my DP 500 and iBook for the Dual Gigger
Honestly Photoshop and Illustrator are running quite decently on my DP 500 and Cinema 4D's rendering has been unloaded from my Mac to my PIII box
The only thing that bothers me now is After Effects. AE runs absolutely fine on my DP 500 but rendering can be slow. My 1.2Ghz PIII is even worse
In other words. I basically am getting the Dual Giger JUST for After Effects.
I don't know if it's stupid for me to trade TWO machine for one just for AE.
This is quite a huge chunk of money to spend and I have to think very seriously
[ 02-18-2002: Message edited by: Leonis ]</p>
Honestly Photoshop and Illustrator are running quite decently on my DP 500 and Cinema 4D's rendering has been unloaded from my Mac to my PIII box
The only thing that bothers me now is After Effects. AE runs absolutely fine on my DP 500 but rendering can be slow. My 1.2Ghz PIII is even worse
In other words. I basically am getting the Dual Giger JUST for After Effects.
I don't know if it's stupid for me to trade TWO machine for one just for AE.
This is quite a huge chunk of money to spend and I have to think very seriously
[ 02-18-2002: Message edited by: Leonis ]</p>
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Leonis, you may very well be buying into something you cannot afford (again).
If your setup works, stay put. Stay put until it becomes unbearable and effects your revenue.
A PMac + brand new iBook is a pretty sweet setup as it is. With devaluation on computers, you can only lose by upgrading so early in the game.
Right now what I said about getting the new machine is pretty much dry talk
[ 02-18-2002: Message edited by: Leonis ]</p>
Of course, I don't know if I could do without my iBook!
HOWEVER, if I can figure out how to run the rendering engine on the PC I can just use both my existing G4 and the PC to do network rendering. So that I don't really have to get the dual gigger
[ 02-18-2002: Message edited by: Leonis ]</p>
This doesn't work with every plugin, but I use cross platform rendering for a lot of tasks. Here is a link to get you started:
<a href="http://www.creativemac.com/cgi-bin/getframeletter.cgi?/2001/10_oct/tutorials/aerenderfarm.htm"; target="_blank">http://www.creativemac.com/cgi-bin/getframeletter.cgi?/2001/10_oct/tutorials/aerenderfarm.htm</a>;
Hope this helps. As for upgrading, if you have got the cash to do so, then fine, but I try to wait till there is a machine that is 3 times faster then what I currently use. I am on a G4 DP 450, and am holding out for new motherboard and memory architecture, and hopefully a G5. These machines will probably end up being 3 times as fast as what I currently use. Its always a nice dramatic jump in performance this way. :eek:
g4pepper
I said I 'wanted' the giger was because of the other people in this board <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
G4 pepper. Thanks for letting me know about that cross platform render stuff
If this works I can wait all the way til 2003 for a "real" G5
[ 02-19-2002: Message edited by: Leonis ]</p>
One thing I love about Maxon (Cinema 4D) is that they ship the CD as a hybrid so that I can install the editor on Mac and install the rendering engine on a PC without paying extra money. Of course you still can install the PC version of the editor on the PC but the package only comes with one serial number to enable ONE app. But still by allowing you to install the rendering engine on different platform is MUCH appreciated.
Adobe, in contrast, seems like a real greedy bastard
[ 02-19-2002: Message edited by: Leonis ]</p>
Even demo machines are gone. Shit I want to try them using my After Effects projects
Especially getting so used to MP I don't want to go back to single, unless it's 64bit multicore G5
[ 02-22-2002: Message edited by: Leonis ]</p>