Dec 2nd – Where is my new Mac Pro and updated FCPX?

[Walter Soyka]

[John Davidson] “Here’s a q – I have one suite that will be specifically for graphics creation and another that will be mostly editing in FCPX. Should I get a 6 core for editing and 12 core for graphics? Based on benchmarks that would get the best performance for each task, right?”

What software are you using?

A 12-core will be better for Ae/C4D. These apps both mainly use CPU-based renderers, and more CPU cores will yield better performance for both. Of course, a 24-core would have been better still…

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
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[Chris Harlan]

Thank you Walter!

[Marcus Moore]

This I understand now. Excellent.

I don’t know anyone who uses the ray-trace renderer in Ae. Either the use Element and fudge things, or just jump into Cinema4D.

Easy and fast setup of refections, shadows, etc. is one of the things that really attracted me to Motion. And motionVFXs mObject is bringing some of the same Element3D functionality to the application later this year.

While I’m very excited to see what happens with FCPX, I’m almost more excited to see a big Motion update- cause I have no idea what that would include, other than performance improvements.

[Rick Lang]

Craig Seeman:
“4 and 6 core coming in December. Those aren’t going to be delayed. That those two are listed and 8 and 12 aren’t has to indicate “something.” Waiting on pricing decisions wouldn’t be a delay of course but part shortage would be.”

I think it means the 4-core and 6-core with their corresponding pre-configured options will be available off the shelf and initially ship within 24 hours. All other options on the 4-core and 6-core will be considered build-to-order as will the additional 8-core and 12-core CPU options and will have longer ship times depending upon the options selected.

Rick Lang

iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB

[Paul Harb]

Nothing Apple does excites me at all any more. They make cool gadgets, but even those are starting to bore me.

Paul Harb-Producer/Director
Wrong Beach Multimedia
Dual 3.2 GHz Quad/10.5.5/8GIG RAM/FCP 6.0.4/QT 7.5.5

[Bill Davis]

“Nothing Apple does excites me at all any more.”

Woah. The ennui just oozes off this post like the tears of a sad baby unicorn.

Know someone who teaches video editing in elementary school, high school or college? Tell them to check out http://www.StartEditingNow.com – video editing curriculum complete with licensed practice content.

[Herb Sevush]

[Bill Davis] “like the tears of a sad baby unicorn.”

lovely, remind me to steal this line at some later date.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Jeremy Garchow]

*REMINDER*

Herb, steal this line at some later date.

[Chris Harlan]

[Bill Davis] “Woah. The ennui just oozes off this post like the tears of a sad baby unicorn.
“

I’m with Herb. I will undoubtedly steal that at some point. I promise, however, to think fondly of you when I do.

[Martin Curtis]

[Craig Seeman] “Which is why they’re not posting availability on 8 and 12 cores IMHO. No promise on those because they’re not ready. “
It’s going to be the G4 Yikes! controversy all over again…