iMac Pro 12/14

[Steve Connor]

Yes as a Mac user I KNOW the iMac Pro will be more expensive, probably offer less bang per buck than other systems, not be upgradeable, hasn’t got a touch screen etc etc etc. But honestly I really don’t care. Mac’s have served me well for my last 10 years of editing and this iMac Pro and the potential for a new Mac Pro have got me excited again, just as FCPX re-invigourated my interest in editing.

Can’t wait to get one 🙂

\”Traditional NLEs have timelines. FCPX has storylines\” W.Soyka

[Tom Sefton]

I think processor wise he was in the middle. Ram and GPU were the upgrades.

The Ram upgrade to 128GB will probably be $1800 over the base spec. Not sure about the GPU.

Co-owner at Pollen Studio
http://www.pollenstudio.co.uk

[Oliver Peters]

[Bob Zelin] “Vincent LaForet’s review was with the blown out version”

Well sort of. It has all the RAM, GPU and SSD upgrades, but only the 8 to 10-core bump-up. That’s likely the top end that Apple currently has in decent supply. If you check, this same configuration has been sent to all the reviewers on these various sites. The interesting part is no mention of price. Obviously Apple wants to leave that reveals to the launch date.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com

[Tom Sefton]

I’m still really intrigued to know what money you need to spend elsewhere to get real-time playback on full quality 5K Red raw footage with a single colour correction layer. And playback on a 5K monitor.

The last article I saw that came close was one that looked at post for a josh hartnett film with 6K red dragon footage at full res in premier, but the dell machines they used for that looked hugely expensive.

Co-owner at Pollen Studio
http://www.pollenstudio.co.uk

[Walter Soyka]

I’m really interested in this machine, especially for work on the road. I wonder if I can run Windows on it…

Going up to 4TB of internal storage is a big deal. The 1 TB ceiling (internal storage) on our nMPs is a constant source of frustration for me.

Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Neil Goodman]

I want! But I just got a maxed out IMac last year and it still over exceeds my needs currently and for the foreseeable future. I’ll probaly end up waiting for the second or third refresh. Thing is sexy tho

[Scott Witthaus]

[Neil Goodman] “I want! But I just got a maxed out IMac last year and it still over exceeds my needs currently and for the foreseeable future. I’ll probaly end up waiting for the second or third refresh. Thing is sexy tho”

I did the same thing. But I do want it….

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Bill Davis]

This is the thing for me.

For the first 15 years I worked in desktop video production, if you didn’t get the machine specs (processor, buss, drive speed, etc, etc) “just right” your workflow was rife with problems.

For the past five years (after I realized how fluidly my laptop could work with X on my most commonly used formats and raster densities) I started thinking VERY differently.

“Off the shelf” Apple hardware – started crushing it for me in ways that my “bespoke” earlier systems just couldn’t.

I’m sure that’s true of “off the shelf” Dells or Acers running PPro as well.

Face it. The computer hardware industry has cracked the video processing nut in general purpose terms.

You can argue that there’s still a lot to discuss at the edge-case high-end where many of us live. But video editing is today – where spreadsheet calculating was in the 1990s. Something EXPECTED at every level of machine – full stop.

It addresses the issue of how far and how fast can I go – without needing to build my own machine from scratch.

In another thread elsewhere, it was noted that if if just half the 2 million active App developers feel they want to optimize their hardware for more speed and efficiency – this machine could see HUGE sales for just that alone.

It wasn’t that long ago that the idea of high performance computing on a laptop or “all in one” machine was a silly thought.

Now it’s not. Thats all.

Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
The shortest path to FCP X mastery.

[Oliver Peters]

And if you are considering a purchase….

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/12/12/apple-mac-trade-in-now-up-to-2500/

Oliver

Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com

[Eric Santiago]

[Tom Sefton] “m still really intrigued to know what money you need to spend elsewhere to get real-time playback on full quality 5K Red raw footage with a single colour correction layer. And playback on a 5K monitor.”

For the last two weeks I was doing it with 6K WS HELIUM for a full feature.
The workstation was a beast. An HP Z840 w/32GB RAM and K5000 card.
It was paired with a nMP D700 w/64GB RAM and that actually worked in Resolve timelines easily (as well as Avid the host NLE).
But all that was using HD playback (Flanders, OSEE and Eizo CG247X).
I have an LG 4K to work with but to date I cant really see the advantage (other than 1:1 viewing) using a small 4K display.
I find it best to use something over 65″ for that kind of viewing.
That HP was a ton of money that I would have thrown at the new iMac.

Crossing fingers a client brings one for me to play with 🙂