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New Mac Pro (Late 2013) and CC 2014
Ok, I’ve been working on one of the new Mac Pro’s from late 2013 and using CC 2013 with R3D footage quite successfully (though without great debayering performance on the R3D – I know it’s supposed to be improved in CC 2014).
I’m running 10.9.2 Mac OSX.
When football season here in the states starts in two weeks, I will have a VERY deadline intensive 30 minute television show that I have to turn around from Saturday night at 2am until 8am Sunday morning.
I have purchased CC 2014, but have read in the past few weeks about the headaches the combination of OS 10.9.3 (and .4) and CC 20014 have caused.
My question is, where do we stand with those issues, and what would the community / Adobe moderators say about me heading up to the latest OS and CC 2014 under these circumstances? Thanks so much for the insight everyone.
Banks
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10.9.4 is really the way to go. 10.9.3 gave a few vendors some problems.
I feel pretty comfortable with Premiere Pro 8.0.1 and Mavericks 10.9.4
Dennis
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Thanks very much Dennis. Do you work with RED footage often? I’m mostly working with 4K.
Thanks,
Banks
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I have a bunch of RED footage and use it to demo quite a bit. I actually work for Adobe…sorry I didn’t mention that before.
If you do a lot of GPU and have a RED Camera, do be sure to have a decent GPU card in there (if you can) as we recently added the ability to have the GPU assist in the RED debayer process – essentially creating a kind of RED rocket card.
Dennis – Adobe guy
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Hi, Dennis…
Thanks for that. Oh, yes, I do indeed have a set of powerful gfx processors – the ones in the new Mac Pro – the 700’s.
Been looking forward to this 2014 release for a while now, but a few months ago I read several horror stories which made me reign up on moving forward with the step up to CC 2014 and 10.9.4.
Thanks for the encouraging words.
Banks
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“If you do a lot of GPU and have a RED Camera, do be sure to have a decent GPU card in there (if you can) as we recently added the ability to have the GPU assist in the RED debayer process – essentially creating a kind of RED rocket card.”
Dennis, thanks for this info. Do you have any info on the minimum requirements to get decent performance out of this new feature on a 2013 Mac Pro? Would the dual D300s on the Mac Pro suffice, or do you really need the D500 or D700 to get acceptable results with something like 5K?
Thanks for any insight you can offer.
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