Here are my specs (it's an old horse, but it does the trick Someone here have some experience with it - or ideas out of the blue? Somewhere AE and RG fight it out, but where? Looking at the performance monitor, neither CPU nor GPU nor RAM nor anything else go through the roof when After Effects decides to linger. After uninstalling Supercomp, everything was normal again, and after a reinstall, it became sluggish again. Even in low-res rendered RAM previews only 7(!) fps play back. I bought Red Giant's »VFX Suite« and only installed the awesome Supercomp plugin, but after the installation After Effects performance already went south immediately, without even applying the newly installed plugin. "All art is quite useless" - Oscar Wilde.I'm a little frustrated right now. There are different KINDS of film, and to enjoy '2001' you must tune your brain to a different wavelength and succumb to the pleasure of beauty, PURE beauty, unfettered by the banal conventions of everyday films. Don't get me wrong, plots and characters are good, but they're not the be-all and end-all of everything. It requires you to experience strange and beautiful images without feeling guilty that there is no complex plot or detailed characterization. '2001' requires you to watch in a different way than you normally watch films. A director can show 15 minutes of spaceships for no reason than that they are beautiful, and it is neither illegal nor evil to do so.
There is nothing wrong with creating a beautiful sequence that has nothing to do with the film's plot. But when did you last see a film that contains beauty purely for the sake of it? There is a weird belief among cinemagoers that anything which is not plot or character related must be removed. Sure, you'll often see nice photography and so on in films. For all those bewildered by the length and pace of this film ("like, why does he show spaceships docking for, like, 15 minutes?"), here's a word you might want to think about: Beauty.
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