OT iMac updated, Macbook Pro soon?

[Craig Seeman]

[Phillip Hollweg] “RAM no longer accessible in the new thin-edge style … so buy from Apple!”
https://www.apple.com/imac/specs/
Says they are here on the 27″ model as they have been previously
8GB (two 4GB) of 1600MHz DDR3 memory; four user-accessible SO-DIMM slots

[Craig Seeman]

Also this makes it clear
https://www.apple.com/imac/performance/
Or add more memory to the 27-inch model yourself by popping open the easy-to-access memory panel on the back

[Craig Seeman]

[David Mathis] “Anyone else notice the Black Magic camera in one of the photos?”

And I hope Apple and/or Blackmagic doesn’t ignore Grant Petty’s NAB suggestion to support CinemaDNG directly in FCPX.

[Walter Soyka]

[Craig Seeman] “And I hope Apple and/or Blackmagic doesn’t ignore Grant Petty’s NAB suggestion to support CinemaDNG directly in FCPX.”

That implies image sequence support — I’d love to see that, too!

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[David Lawrence]

[Jeremy Garchow] “I am hoping for Haswell rMBPs soon!”

Me too!!! Very soon, please!!!

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[Jeremy Garchow]

Didn’t Adobe dump DNG support in Pr because they weren’t happy with the real time performance?

https://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2012/09/cinemadng-in-after-effects-cs6-and-elsewhere.html

Is Apple going to be able to do much better?

[Walter Soyka]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Didn’t Adobe dump DNG support in Pr because they weren’t happy with the real time performance?”

It’s baa-aaack…

https://blogs.adobe.com/premierepro/2013/09/adobe-premiere-pro-cc-october-2013-release.html

“Premiere Pro’s outstanding native media support has been given a major boost this release. New native file format support for Cinema DNG, Sony RAW, Phantom Cine, improved MJPG from Canon 1DC, Sony XAVC Long GOP, Panasonic AVC Ultra (Long GOP), 64 bit ProRes decoding (Mac OS X 10.8 or higher only), and support for exporting XAVC up to 4K and AVCi200 is included, and Cinema DNG can be debayered on a supported GPU for even better performance.”

Walter Soyka
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[Jeremy Garchow]

I see. Thanks for that.

[Walter Soyka] “and Cinema DNG can be debayered on a supported GPU for even better performance.””

I just don’t think it’s a format that Apple would be interesting in supporting because it’s not going work on a Mac Mini. Unless, of course, there’s an easy way to transcode to ProRes.

I hope I’m wrong.

Weird XAVC Long Gop is supported, but no I-frame? Us F55 users will be pissed!

[Shawn Miller]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Didn’t Adobe dump DNG support in Pr because they weren’t happy with the real time performance?

https://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2012/09/cinemadng-in-after-effects-cs6-...

Is Apple going to be able to do much better?”

You should check the updates to Todd’s blog post:

“A recent post on the Adobe Labs blog seems to have confused many people with this sentence:

“The Cinema DNG Initiative has been discontinued and is no longer hosted on Adobe Labs.”

What this is intending to communicate is simply that the experimental plug-in for CinemaDNG for Premiere Pro CS5.5 was removed from the Adobe Labs website. The CinemaDNG format continues to be an open format, and its development is not limited to Adobe. We moved the specification and other materials from the Adobe Labs area of the Adobe website to the Adobe Developer Center area of the Adobe website.

CinemaDNG files can still be opened by any current Adobe application that includes the Camera Raw plug-in for importing DNG files. This includes After Effects and Photoshop. Also, we just issued a bug-fix update for SpeedGrade that makes it work better with CinemaDNG files.”

Walter beat me to the next PPro CC update announcement. To your point though, I do hope Apple jumps in with a good solid raw workflow for CinemaDNG, and not just for FCPX. It would be good to see a FCPX<–>Motion<–>XML<–>whatever capability. Even though FCPX and Motion will likely never be my tools of choice, I want to be able to exchange media and projects with them if I need to.

Shawn

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Shawn Miller] “What this is intending to communicate is simply that the experimental plug-in for CinemaDNG for Premiere Pro CS5.5 was removed from the Adobe Labs website.”

But it went on to say:

“One question that we’ve been seeing a lot–especially since the recent announcements of a couple of cameras–is why Premiere Pro doesn’t import CinemaDNG files. The answer is simply that we have not been satisfied with the performance that we have been able to achieve with CinemaDNG files in Premiere Pro, in which real-time playback is crucial.”

It looks like perhaps that’s been ‘fixed’. I guess we will see in October.

Jeremy