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does your NLE match your budget?
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Thanks Walter. And yes I totally agree. We had 8 trashcans at Coke ( i met you at a shooters event you held there) and the MacPros were and are running like crap with PPro. I used to own decked out G5s at the time.. they were sweet.. the last couple years I’ve found iMac suitable for personal work.. and think for awhile there were running great. But I am too in the market for a PC now. Oliver, I wasn’t trying to trash FCPX but more trying to make the point that the Mac platform just seems to be lacking for what I think most of us want to do. I can’t speak to FCPX because when I transitioned from FCP7 I moved right over to CS6.
Telly Award Winning Editor and Motion Gfx Artist with MotionFoundry, Inc., Nashville, TN. Former Head of Post Production, Coca-Cola Studios Atlanta, GA.
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Bret, I’m doing most 1080p… some 4K red which I down convert to prores 1080p. But my system struggles now with just about every project over 3 minutes.. and if it’s heavy fx based it can struggle none the less. Just finding it more and more and I just think it’s time for PC. – I’ll speak to myself. Even worked on 12-core trashcans and still found PPro struggled.
Telly Award Winning Editor and Motion Gfx Artist with MotionFoundry, Inc., Nashville, TN. Former Head of Post Production, Coca-Cola Studios Atlanta, GA.
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[Brian Cooney] “Oliver, I wasn’t trying to trash FCPX but more trying to make the point that the Mac platform just seems to be lacking for what I think most of us want to do. I can’t speak to FCPX because when I transitioned from FCP7 I moved right over to CS6.”
I didn’t make any comments about FCPX, but rather your iMac. Walter responded about FCP X. You noted that you were having issues with the Adobe apps and the Mac trash cans, too. That’s odd, as I haven’t seen that myself. In fact, at quite a few places, I’m running various versions of Adobe Premiere Pro CC (or 2014 or 2015) on older Mac Pros and the behavior is actually better than some of the Dell machines in the same facilities. Storage – especially if a SAN or underperforming drives are involved – is often the culprit.
As far as a move to Windows… If you like the all-in-one concept, I’d recommend the HP Z1 G2. I wrote up a review that might be worth checking out.
https://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/2014/09/19/hp-z1-g2-workstation/
I hope that helps.
Cheers,
OliverOliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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yeah many of us… multitudes, are having issue with PPro on the trashcans..
Telly Award Winning Editor and Motion Gfx Artist with MotionFoundry, Inc., Nashville, TN. Former Head of Post Production, Coca-Cola Studios Atlanta, GA.
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[Brian Cooney] “yeah many of us… multitudes, are having issue with PPro on the trashcans..”
The main problems I’ve heard of are with Resolve and the 6-core and 12-core machines. Issues related to the hex-core CPU configuration on that system.
Of course, there is a school of thought that suggests getting one of the last 12-core Mac Pro towers, load it up with RAM, install SSDs, and add a high-end NVIDIA card. I suspect Premiere Pro CC might perform quite well on that hardware. It’s what Fincher’s editing team used for “Gone Girl”, along with a very hot-rodded SAN.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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[Oliver Peters] “The main problems I’ve heard of are with Resolve and the 6-core and 12-core machines. Issues related to the hex-core CPU configuration on that system.”
Wow!!! That’s interesting stuff Oliver… It’s way beyond my pay grade however… What badness does the hex-core CPU configuration mean for those using resolve???
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss ProductionsDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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[David Roth Weiss] “Wow!!! That’s interesting stuff Oliver… It’s way beyond my pay grade however… What badness does the hex-core CPU configuration mean for those using resolve???
“Honestly I don’t know either. I couldn’t find anything right now, but in the past I’ve seen comments on various forums and the commonality was the 6-core and 12-core machines. In looking, I also found this issue related to the D700 GPUs.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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[Oliver Peters] “Honestly I don’t know either. I couldn’t find anything right now, but in the past I’ve seen comments on various forums and the commonality was the 6-core and 12-core machines.”
Gotcha! Jeeze, whatever it does, it must really piss-off a few people. 🙂
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss ProductionsDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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[David Roth Weiss] “Gotcha! Jeeze, whatever it does, it must really piss-off a few people. :)”
That might be why Apple suggests the 8-core as the “sweet spot”. 😉
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com
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