Adobe previews Creative Cloud update

Nuke is a away faster than AE in any rendering task – preview play, final rendering… The effects are also rendered much faster, unless you do some heavy particle animation and use some heavy 3d meshes which are not just possible in AE. But you just using composited layers? So I guess you are making something “wrong”.

I guess AE is still using same core architecture and that’s why it looks to be as slow as it has always be if you use it in same machine with same hardware, just some chewing gum added multi-threading, OpenCL and CUDA acceleration, this is my guess based on these 20 years and comparing the speed performance feeling (yes, sorry, it is just a feeling) vs. resolution/fps/depth = data amount / project size vs. new hardware, like OpenCL and CUDA support, it didn’t give ass much performance than it should be able to.

Like Photoshop, it obviously has that almost 30-year old core still inside it and they have just throw same accelerations technology over it: OpenCL, CUDA, Multi threading, and made it support 64-bit memory address.

My guess is they have made just few tweaks for core – but without complete re-design of your core architecture you can not benefit 100% performance from new hardware technology and that’s why Serif’s Affinity Photo is a way faster than PS and I hope Serif will keep their core architecture always updated so users can have optimized software for their hardware which makes it run faster in new hardware, makes it use low memory (have you see how much PS is eating RAM? or AE?) and that way save electricity (if you can make things faster you will save time and electricity) and you can run many other software in background without making affect for Affinity’s performance.

If you have old core and you just throw – by adding poor support for new technology pushing it inside other code using the easiest way (some tech. which didn’t exist before core writing like OpenCL and CUDA) you might add it quickly like Adobe has done and if you do it that way – the hardware is supported by lowest possible way because the software core wasn’t designed for it like Operating systems kernel, it might also create new possible security issues (like flash tech.) – if you add just features without redesign core you might see crash issues, memory leaks and deadly slow processing like you mentioned about EXR support which reminds me: So did you use anything else than layers? Was it exactly same compositing scenario in AE and Nuke, without any effects added (because effects are not comparable). Have you designed your hardware for AE or Nuke, I guess it is Mac and if yes: then Mac has most probably AMD cards which support OpenCL and Nuke is better with CUDA support (and Apple has some issues with Nvidia support, at least I have read so, I have no real experience from this because I don’t own Mac). And no, I don’t know about your hardware configuration – many things might cause the reason why AE looks to be faster, or it is faster if you use hardware which is supported better by AE even when their technology would not be as optimized than Nuke’s. Also settings behind software are important, is your AE preview render using lower quality than Nuke’s and are you using more heavily composited scene – is color space same etc.

But anyway – good to see improvements in Adobe products, I still think subscription is not giving as much as Creative Suite “perpetual” license when I could give the message that they are going to right direction by upgrading software if I need it. Now people are just paying each month and they will release new update or not, update can include anything – it can be totally worthless and still you need to pay from support that you can keep working with your tools, and you can not give message that they are not taking care about your needs in new features. This is why I hope all good for Affinity products and Black Magic’s Fusion etc. They will make progress, and they do it a away faster than Adobe and I hope that competition will open their eyes for new license policy (choose rental or buy) or/and it will make them really do something about their poor updates (I still see these are quite poor features compared to CS times: these aren’t 2 -> 3 -> 4 -> 5 version updates which brought plenty of new features, these are more like 2 -> 2.05 -> 2.1 -> 2.15 -> 2.2 updates so you are paying from 2.05 version update each moth and there is few 0.05 version updates in year, progress is poor, people can not tell what they think about their innovations, they need to pay each month what ever happens.

But everybody can make their choice, nobody is forcing to use CC – That’s why it is good to have competition, Fusion, Nuke, Silhouette FX, Mamba FX, Mistika, even blender 🙂