Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
This tutorial will show how the vectorizing and colorising of the characters in the “Clanu’ …” titles was done. It’s pretty simple and there’s one often overlooked powerful tool in After Effects, called Auto-Trace. AE Knowledge level required: intermediate.
Saturday, July 5th, 2008
Can we use the MB Air as a Pro machine for After Effects work & Rendering?
I used a project that uses only computational power, without any source footage, so hard drive performance doesn’t influence the test results. It’s a heavy combination of 3D Layers with AE Lights, Shadows & Camera (yeah, i know, it’s strength 
) created with Trapcode Echospace and…. ahm… some… Shine 
The Benchmark results:
All testes were carried out with Multiprocessing on and off.
Performance seems to be proportional to the weight of the machine. Not so the price.
- MacPro 8c 2.8 vs. Air 1.6: 8x Performance / 14x Heavier. Price ratio: 1.5x
- MBP Pro 2.4 vs. Air 1.6: 2.2x Performance / 1.8x Heavier. MBP 15″ is only 200$ pricier.
Conclusion: You can’t fit the horse inside the envelope. use it … If you manage to work on the small resolution screen, you can do some lightweight work… it’s comparable to using AE 7 on Intel Macs. (Remember Rosetta emulation?) The “Air” offeres decent speed in Aperture 2 and, if it had a somewhat bigger screen it might also be suited for the light PhotoShop tasks.
It’d be so nice to have a small and powerful machine and not have to carry around the 17″ MBP with external hard drives and everything. A roll-out screen would also be nice.
Btw., here’s the test render:
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