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[♪rock music♪]
[NVIDIA Quadro]
[Explore a new dimension in 3D performance.]
[NVIDIA GPUs for ADOBE® After Effects® CS6]
You may have noticed that our music video had a high-quality logo
with the band that we did in 3D.
That was actually done in After Effects using the brand new ray tracing engine
that uses NVIDIA OptiX technology and its accelerated GPU.
Now if anybody is familiar with ray tracing, you know that it's extremely difficult
and it's extremely computationally intense,
but we can do it on the GPU--and we can do it really fast.
I'm actually previewing right now, and we're actually seeing this render out on the GPU,
and we've taken this logo--
all this is is a shape that we created in Adobe Illustrator.
We've extruded it inside of After Effects,
and this is going to give us a very, very high-quality motion graphic.
You can see that we've got nice soft shadows.
We can get reflections on this, and the really cool thing
is that we can manipulate this in real time.
So I'm going to go ahead and show you how that works.
Using a camera, we can basically get a really fast preview,
and this preview is actually ray-traced as well.
You see as soon as we stop,
we immediately get feedback and that renders out,
so we can go ahead and animate our logo and get any look that we want.
And a really neat thing is that you used to have to go out to an expensive 3D package
in order to get these kinds of effects into your video workflow.
Now you can do it right inside After Effects,
and it's 20 times faster on the NVIDIA GPU
than you're going to get with the CPU alone.
And one of the neat things is that you can see
how we can use traditional After Effects elements
to composite with our 3D to get a really nice finished product.
All this is going to render out,
and we're going to end up with a very high quality,
professional-looking motion graphic.
So for GPU ray tracing, you want all the horsepower you possibly can.
I've reconfigured my Maximus system.
I'm still using the Tesla C2075,
but I've replaced the Quadro 2000 with a Quadro 5000.
If I wanted to go insanely fast, I could even replace it with a Quadro 6000.
[NVIDIA Quadro]
