Crappiest Rendering Computer

[Kyle Fenton]

Originally posted by Jay5780


I know it is a "fast" machine, but it is not reliable. Every time I talk to someone about Macs and they say how great they are I say use it for 20 hours a day 365 days a year and then tell me how great it is. This machine always freezes and crashes and gives dumb memory errors for example after boot up it sometimes says "there is not enough memory to load internet explorer" With a gig or ram there is plenty and yes all the settings are correct.

So with all the problems I changed the voice that says the errors to say "When will you learn and buy a PC?" before it reads the error...

You may have a messed up system.
I can't really say unless I see the machine.
I have a Beige 233Mhz that is pretty reliable, and I do a bunch of stuff with it.

Do you have Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X?
I would recommend using Mac OS X since After Effects is native to it.

Apple is going to come out with an awesome video compositor, very soon.

Apple has recently purchased Shake, Tremor, Rayz, and Pismo (or at least I think it is Pismo), anyway I think they are going to make one big app combing the power of all of them, which will blow After Effects in the dust.

Originally posted by Trashed20

What is the crappiest rendering computer you have?

I render mine on my 400 celeron with win 98 and 256 mb ram and a 4 gb hd

Do you mean slowest, "crappiest rendering" usually means crappy results in rendering, which unless you have a screwed up system, a slow computer usually gets the job done, but much slower.

I have a 233 MHz that takes about 40-45 minutes to compress about a 4-minute match. Most modern computer can probably compress MPEG-1 or MPEG-4 in real time. So it is basically your patience, and if you are on a deadline. Usually in rendering, you send the job off to many computers, or have it render on a powerful internal server.