Mac Pro to be discontinued???

[Kevin Cannon]

Well, the good news is that (according to Rohit in another thread) the Resolve dongle that manages the license is interchangeable between mac and windows… so the same purchase basically allows free and instant cross-grading if you need to switch.

If you are using graphics cards from MacVidCards and David Pirinelli (which many people on this forum use with no issues), he says those are able to be moved to a windows system no problem.

The Decklink HD Extreme can also be moved into a windows system, probably the other video interface solutions as well.

Any grading monitor you might get will work the same, as well as most or all storage solutions with PCI card interfaces…

So you could easily invest in an entire Resolve grading set-up where the only piece that is OS dependent is the Mac Pro itself. Is there other gear or software in the set-up that you’re considering that is?

Cheers,

KC

Prehistoric Digital
PhD Grading Suite

[Robert Houllahan]

No shock there at all, really, the Mac-Pro is a piece of junk in a nice case. The power supply is inadequate, the lack of slots and bus bandwidth sucks and the lack of space for drives and decent onboard I/O blows.

I just got a new i7 17″ Thunderbolt MBP but I think that will be the last mac I get. This is exactly why I built a Asus “supercomputer” based OSX workstation for Resolve.

Also Apple is light years behind Win-7 and Linux for GPU amd storage support.

I own a NeXT cube which ran Mathematica but Apple does not care about professional computing anymore.

The only thing left from apple for film/video professionals is Pro-Res and if apple does not move fast to make writing Pro-Res on the PC free it will be overtaken by DNx.

-Rob-

Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.com

MAHC-PRO 6-Core 3X GTX285 20Tb SAS Wave Panel Panny 11UK SDI Plasma.

[Joseph Mastantuono]

I have to agree with to Robert…

if apple cared about the Mac pro, there would have been model with thunderbolt. Put it this way. If fcp is dead, and you want to run avid or premiere pro at a resonable price apple is just not cost effective.

Joseph Mastantuono
http://www.goodpost.net
Color Grading & Post Production Consulting

[John Michaels]

A NeXT cube?! Nice!
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I began transitioning away from the Apple ecosystem a couple of years ago because of their obviously diminishing regard for the pro market. Resolve was actually the last piece of the puzzle, so now that they’re coming over to Windows the transition is more or less complete.

Kevin has some great points about the OS-independent nature of much of the hardware. If you keep that compatibility in mind as you make your purchases, you shouldn’t have to worry too much just yet about where things are headed.

[Timo Teravainen]

Another reason not to stay on Mac hardware: the most recent PC version of Resolve writes prores.

[Margus Voll]

would like to go with linux 🙂

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Margus

https://iconstudios.eu

[Robert Houllahan]

Are you sure the PC version of Resolve writes Pro-Res? As far as the specs on the BMD website go it is Mac OS only.

-Rob-

Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.com

MAHC-PRO 6-Core 3X GTX285 20Tb SAS Wave Panel Panny 11UK SDI Plasma.

[Timo Teravainen]

[Robert Houllahan] “Are you sure the PC version of Resolve writes Pro-Res? As far as the specs on the BMD website go it is Mac OS only.”

Haven’t tested it myself yet but that’s what I’ve heard:

https://reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?71746-DAvinci-Resolve-beta-3-download

If it does, it’s pretty awesome.

[Robert Houllahan]

Wow!! Interesting and really great.

-Rob-

Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.com

MAHC-PRO 6-Core 3X GTX285 20Tb SAS Wave Panel Panny 11UK SDI Plasma.

[Chris Jones]

Thanks for the answers.

Sounds like Apple is losing people even if they do come out with a new Mac Pro.

The hardware I’m looking at buying is either the Tangent Wave or the MC Color (leaning towards the MC Color because I don’t have much desk space) Does anyone know if they will work on a PC also?

Also I need to set up a RAID and I’m not sure how much of that could be used on a PC – The hard drives could be formatted but I’m not sure what I really need yet.