OT iMac updated, Macbook Pro soon?

[Shawn Miller]

[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!”

Backup, I feel like I’m reading that wrong… FCPX doesn’t support image sequences?

Shawn

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Shawn Miller] “Backup, I feel like I’m reading that wrong… FCPX doesn’t support image sequences? “

ya see where I’m going with this now? 😉

[Shawn Miller]

[Jeremy Garchow] “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”

Yes, I took that to mean that they weren’t making cDNG support a priority in Premiere, not that they were dropping it altogether. I also thought that they were talking about 12 bit cDNG in particular, as the 8 bit version had been working all along… at least that was my understanding.

Shawn

[Shawn Miller]

[Jeremy Garchow] ”

[Shawn Miller] “Backup, I feel like I’m reading that wrong… FCPX doesn’t support image sequences? ”

ya see where I’m going with this now? ;)”

Yeah, I think I do. 🙂 Blackmagic’s emphasis on pain free metadata entry seems like a great fit for FCPX… I hope Apple sees that too.

Shawn

[Chris Kenny]

[Jeremy Garchow] “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. “

It’s easier to decode than Epic footage (lower resolution, no wavelet compression), and they support that. Presumably FCP X’s existing features for generating proxy/optimized ProRes media would be available.

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[Jeremy Garchow]

[Chris Kenny] “It’s easier to decode than Epic footage (lower resolution, no wavelet compression), and they support that. Presumably FCP X’s existing features for generating proxy/optimized ProRes media would be available.”

Sure, but that’s not an image sequence, and it gives you available tools to transcode to another format right away. Decoding R3D is typically a CPU intensive.

Adobe supposedly solved DNG playback by assigning GPU debayer. Is that something Apple will do?

There’s nothing setup for image sequences, currently, in FCP X.

I’d like to see it, but I’m not holding my breath.

[Rick Lang]

Marcus, interesting observations and I suspect marketing is thinking the same thing–working in 4K?–buy a Mac Pro.

At least they have a very impressive GPU with more VRAM (4GB) than NVIDIA offers on their stock cards (3GB).

Rick Lang

iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB

[Paul Neumann]

So I’m trying to advise a client (small agency) on a new iMac purchase. They will do a fair share of their own editing on it and want to know i7 or Fusion Drive. Are the new i5’s up to the task? RAM is not a problem, plenty of that laying around. They have some TB drives as well so that’s not a factor. Basically if you took the top line 27″ and had $200 more to spend would you spend it on the i7 or the Fusion Drive. The 2GB graphics card will do fine as well I suppose.

I only have experience with i7 and Xeon so I can’t really speak to the i5 performance. And even though I use SSDs now, a 7200 rpm disk was always up to the task.

Anybody?

[Walter Soyka]

[Paul Neumann] “Basically if you took the top line 27″ and had $200 more to spend would you spend it on the i7 or the Fusion Drive.”

I’d spend the money on the i7, as the i5 iMac doesn’t support hyper-threading.

You can always buy fast Thunderbolt storage after the fact.

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[Craig Seeman]

IMHO the two most important BTO options are i7 and the nVidia 780M GPU. FCPX takes advantage of both and may take more advantage of the GPU as time goes on… which means you’ll be able to keep the machine in service longer before the need for another machine update.