Happy with 6.0, not so happy with the Mac Version

[Tom Daigon]

Hey Chris, check this out! I did a Google search and found this thread that might address the playback issue you are experiencing.

https://forums.adobe.com/message/2783312

Tom Daigon
PrP / After Effects Editor
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Mac Pro 3,1
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Nvidia Quadro 4000
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Kona 3

[Chris Borjis]

thanks tom I’ll give that a try.

[David Mcgavran]

Hi Jim,

I am David McGavran the engineering manager for Premiere Pro. Some of your ideas here are speculation. We spent an amazing amount of effort this release on the mac adding mac specific features to help performance and comfort of mac users. I program Premiere Pro on a mac and so does about half of the team. Porting MPE to OpenCL was a massive effort that took a very long time and much work. This was mainly to support the mac users out there. To make this effort feasible we needed to focus our testing efforts on specific configurations so that we were sure they would work. If I were you I would go online and read about CUDA compatibilty and you can get information on how we support different cards. Again Open CL is first on the mac. Pinch gestures and 2 finger horizontal/vertical scrolling was also made for the mac users out there. You will continue to see us support the mac platform to the best of our ability. We will also to continue to look at which cards to support going forward.

Cheers

Dave

[Jim Wiseman]

Thank you David, it is very reassuring to receive a communication from the senior engineer rather than someone who is basically in PR (no offense, your people are great) I would just like to be be reassured that PP 6.0 and future releases will be equal on both the Mac and the PC relative to hardware and software. At this point it is not the case. Will we see such an equality and in what release? Why does it perform better on the PC when the market you are after has been on the Mac for the last 10 years? Thank you for your efforts, they are much appreciated. I am completely aware I would not have received such a response from Apple. Thanks again, Jim

Jim Wiseman
Sony PMW-EX1,Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 2.1, Premiere Pro 5.0 and 5.5, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi, Avid MC, Hexacore MacPro 3.33 Ghz 24Gb RAM GTX-285 120GB SSD, Macbook Pro 17″ 2011 2.2 Ghz Quadcore i7 8Gb SSD, G5 Quadcore PCIe

[Cliff Stephenson]

And I would agree with that except I’m not running on an iMac. I’m running a Mac Pro 4,1 dual quad-core 2.93GHz with 48 gigs of RAM and the same quadro 4000 card you’re running. My system should therefore be unstoppable, but it often is.

[Cliff Stephenson]

I do often break up my timelines. The 90 minute doc I just delivered was actually broken up into 6 different, shorter timelines with the longest section being about 25 minutes. I crashed often.

[Jim Wiseman]

Tom, you are doing Adobe no favors by continuing to bash the Mac and Apple. They have their own PR group and I don’t think they need you. A very large part of the market they are after prefers that platform. Please just cool it… Respectfully, Jim

Jim Wiseman
Sony PMW-EX1,Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 2.1, Premiere Pro 5.0 and 5.5, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi, Avid MC, Hexacore MacPro 3.33 Ghz 24Gb RAM GTX-285 120GB SSD, Macbook Pro 17″ 2011 2.2 Ghz Quadcore i7 8Gb SSD, G5 Quadcore PCIe

[Tom Daigon]

Lighten up Jim.

Tom Daigon
PrP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com
Mac Pro 3,1
8 core
10.7.3
Nvidia Quadro 4000
24 gigs ram
Maxx Digital / Areca 8tb. raid
Kona 3

[Tom Daigon]

FYI Jim, I dont work for Adobe. My views are my own. I am just enthusiastic about the their software. And not very enthusiastic about the Mac. Learn to live with views that may differ from your own.

Tom Daigon
PrP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com
Mac Pro 3,1
8 core
10.7.3
Nvidia Quadro 4000
24 gigs ram
Maxx Digital / Areca 8tb. raid
Kona 3

[Tom Daigon]

In all fairness, I have seen comments from folks on both the PC and the Mac sides that have concerns about certain features performance. It really isnt just limited to the Mac.

Tom Daigon
PrP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com
Mac Pro 3,1
8 core
10.7.3
Nvidia Quadro 4000
24 gigs ram
Maxx Digital / Areca 8tb. raid
Kona 3