CC-CS6-X render comparisons

[Mathieu Ghekiere]

I’ve also found that, when dealing with Prores, X is one very fast piece of software.
If you use the built-in tools, like the Color Board, rendering truly is fast in comparison with other software.

In FCP7, we use to put layers on top of each others, and put ONE timecode reader effect on the timeline. Rendering took forever once you got a timecode reader in there.
In FCPX, we make 6 long compound clips, all with their own timecode generator on, and put those 6 streams with timecode (by making smaller picture-in-pictures) on one image, unrendered, and it all plays back and exports really fast in comparison with FCP7.

One of the advantages of all-new code I guess.

[Bob Woodhead]

Thanks for that, Oliver. Imagine what the results will be with the MacProTrashcan and an optimized version of FCPX.

[Oliver Peters]

[Bob Woodhead] “Imagine what the results will be with the MacProTrashcan and an optimized version of FCPX.”

While that’s true, I would imagine Adobe’s apps will also be optimized. Maybe not to the same level as FCP X, but better than now. But, it depends on how Apple implements this horsepower. My own guess is that the new MP will be geared towards 4K and maybe they will use the 2nd GPU for dedicated background rendering. In other words, you may or may not see any huge advantages with 1080p media that doesn’t require rendering.

In any case, I have tended to consistently find that CC is a bump up from CS6 and that FCP X / Motion 5 rendering is faster than Premiere / AE rendering.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Gary Huff]

[Bob Woodhead] “Imagine what the results will be with the MacProTrashcan and an optimized version of FCPX.”

FCPX won’t be “optimized” for the new Mac Pro and more than you would say the current version is “optimized” for the iMac vs. the Mac Mini.

FCPX takes advantage of CPU advancements in Sandy/Ivy/Haswell, and GPU acceleration via OpenCL. What more needs to be “optimized” for the Mac Pro?

[Craig Seeman]

Apple’s own words on the FCPX product page

https://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/
“… Final Cut Pro will be optimized to take advantage of the incredible power built into the new Mac Pro.”

[Bret Williams]

Unless you’d like to use AE in ray trace mode of course.

[Bret Williams]

The current version is optimized for the iMac vs the MacPro in that it takes advantage of specific Sandy/Ivy bridge technologies.

[Marcus Moore]

To be fair, that’s what Phil Schiller made a special point of saying at WWDC.

“The Final Cut Pro team is hard at work on a version of Final Cut Pro 10 that will support all the performance and graphics capabilities of this machine”.

What this means specifically beyond support for all the CPU cores and GPU power– who knows. There’s been some suggestion that one GPU will be tasked specifically with background rendering in this configuration. That would be sort of swell, and would only be possible in a Dual GPU machine.

[Daniel Frome]

Impressive numbers for FCPX. Although I must admit, for the multi-OS piece software, Adobe CC is really showing strong numbers for OSX.

[Gary Huff]

[Marcus Moore] “o be fair, that’s what Phil Schiller made a special point of saying at WWDC.”

And Schiller writes a lot of code for FCPX, right?

I’m astounded that people here take the word of corporate marketing…do you also have indepth tech discussions with the booth babes at NAB?