Posted by Luis Ortega on 10/14/07 12:09

I have a 2.4 Mac Book Pro laptop with 4 gigs ram and an external firewire
800 drive for media.
I notice that when I use AE CS3 on it, the preview renders are very slow,
and the ram previews are also slow. I have tried all of the performance
enhancements suggested in the help files for AE.
I get faster ram previews using my old PC with a Pentium 4 3.2ghz and 2 gig
ram when using AE CS2.
Is there something that I am doing wrong, or is AE CS3 just too much for a
MBP and requires a Mac Pro with multi core xeons?
At the school where I work, I have a dozen G5 1.8 Mac Pros with 2 gig ram
and only one internal drive loaded with CS3 Master Collection, but I am
wondering whether it's a good idea to try to run AE CS3 on such machines if
my new MBP can't provide a reasonable rendering time for previews. I can't
afford to have the kids sitting around all the time waiting for previews to
render.
Should I be considering going to lower resolutions/quality for previews?
Thanks for any advice.

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