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[Bruce Richard]

Thanks for the reply John.

Yes, it is mostly a hobby with me. And I don’t have plans to delve into 4K anytime soon, but of course it is a possibility for the future.

And yes, I do hold on to my computers for a long time, my present one, the one that’s dying, I had built in April of 2012 and its an AMD A6-3650 APU with Radeon HD Graphics. 2.60GHz. So yeah, 5+ years.

There is some sticker shock when I look at the prices on the i9’s, but maybe I just need to take the hit, and arealize that the extra will be spread out over many years, hopefully.

I did do some quick googling on looking for the “Sony recommended 8 core for 4k” aspect of this, and I found a thread from a couple years ago that you were in, and if I read it right, you said you played around at the apple store with a 4 core for 4k editing, and it worked well. That kind of confused me. There was mention in the same paragraph about a slower, but 8 core processor, maybe that was what you were referring to?

Here’s the thread: https://forums.creativecow.net/docs/forums/post.php?forumid=24&postid=978059&univpostid=978059&pview=t

If anybody still in the PC game has thoughts on a choice for a GPU, i’m still trying to learn.

[John Rofrano]

[Bruce Richard] “There is some sticker shock when I look at the prices on the i9’s, but maybe I just need to take the hit, and arealize that the extra will be spread out over many years, hopefully.”

If you aren’t betting you business on this then I wouldn’t worry about the Core i9. Yes they are expensive but in business, time is money so time saved is money saved or earned.

[Bruce Richard] “…if I read it right, you said you played around at the apple store with a 4 core for 4k editing, and it worked well. That kind of confused me.”

Yup, that’s right and it confuses a lot of people. Final Cut Pro X on the Mac runs much better than anything on a PC and so you don’t need as powerful a Mac. You can edit 4K smoothly on a Core i5 iMac with FCP X which you would never attempt to do on a PC or even with another NLE on the Mac. Apple has the hardware and software precisely tuned to take full advantage off each other. So you never have people complaining that FCP X doesn’t take advantage of the GPU on their Mac like I hear all the time on a PC. It’s a totally different world when one vendor owns the hardware and software.

Here is one comparison that proves my point:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUY9mZoWv0w

~jr

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[Bruce Richard]

No, the confusion was even more easily explained in that.

I completely forgot that when referencing the Apple computer, you would’ve been using Final Cut Pro, not SV. In my head as I read it I was picturing them both using Vegas and I was wondering why ba 4 core would work on the Apple but that the PC, forgetting about the respective software.

Total brain fart on my part.

[John Rofrano]

No worries. I use to run Vegas Pro on my Mac using Bootcamp with Windows 7 and it ran about the same as on a PC so no surprises there. What people don’t realize about the Mac platform is that the developers are using the exact same Mac that you are which allows them to tune their software specifically for their hardware because they know in advance what your hardware will look like. This is a very powerful concept. Sort of like with “turn-key” systems which always performed better than generic systems.

~jr

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