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NEXT debate: Hardware… Should we all move to PC running Linux or W7???
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OpenCl is sadly way inferior to CUDA, as you might know.
It all comes down to speed, real time processing for each client
The reality again: Large facilities still rely on LINUX based applications, and appropriate rendering solutions and real time processing.
I do not rule Macs out totally in the future, the fact is that current PC solutions are more adequate for Premier and Media composer…
Michel Gallone
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[Peter Blumenstock] “And all that Apple can come up with is… silence.”
There’s no open letter from Steve Jobs on the Apple web site, but Apple has had product managers talking to people like Hodgetts, Pogue, and Jordan about future plans. People just aren’t listening, or they’re so firmly determined to see everything through the “Apple doesn’t care about pros” lens that they’re trying to poke holes in what Apple has said to these folks.
Incidentally, releasing information about future products like this is quite unusual for Apple. It should be taken as a sign that Apple is well aware of the perception problem.
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[Michel Gallone] “OpenCl is sadly way inferior to CUDA, as you might know.”
OpenCL’s performance is nearly on par with CUDA’s, and overall rendering engine performance between, say, Premiere Pro and FCP X can’t be meaningfully determined entirely on that basis.
What was Apple supposed to do, anyway? As an NVIDIA-only solution, CUDA would have been a terrible idea for FCP X. Apple needs the option to choose graphics vendors for its hardware; it would be extremely awkward if every time they chose Intel or ATI for a given model generation, it meant those machines couldn’t run Final Cut.
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Digital Workflow/Colorist, Nice Dissolve.You should follow me on Twitter here. Or read our blog.
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If history is our guide (the antenna debacle, the patent troll suing apps store developers) when things go wrong, Apple usually says nothing official until they have thought it through. Usually around 10 days or so, they come out with a definitive statement, of what the problems are, what they will do to fix it, the timeline for fixing it, and what remedies they currently have for the purchasers of the product/software. We might not like what we hear, but we will get a response and know where we stand.
As for hardware, The last feature I cut was using Avid on a Mac Pro, and it worked quit well. I have multiple Mac Pros running Avid MC 5.5 and Final Cut Studio, and 1 of them is now running just Windows 7 and is rock solid.
I have had an uptick in people asking me to train them on Avid… that perhaps is a knee jerk reaction to all the negative comments about X
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I think its pretty Obvious, that apple Isn’t Targeting “US” anymore. I mean features were left out because apple didn’t think it was necessary to include them, Claiming FCP 7 project Files dont have enough data to go into FCP X yet iMovie project files dO?. I mean its foolish to think that they will change, apple “does no wrong” in there eyes. and its “There way, or the highway” attitude.
I currently own a 8-Core 2.26ghz, I spent my a Good chunk of my savings buying it, and my next Phone, Tower and Laptop will be PC, Apples not targeting creatives anymore. They’re doing what nintendo did. and who can blame them? They’re just greedy pigs.
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If only Da Vinci would offer Resolve for Windows now. 🙁
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