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  • Premiere / After Effects and new Mac Pro: positive experiences?

    Posted by Alessandro Cofanelli on January 1, 2015 at 8:59 am

    HI,
    we are evaluating some alternatives to renew our editing hardware.
    One of this alternatives is the new Mac pro, mainly because all other computers in the company are OS X based.
    I’ve read a lot in this and other forums and the feeling is that everyone is having problems with premiere (and after effects) with the new Mac pro: poor performances, severe lags, encoding bugs, crashes.
    What I want to understand is: is everyone having those problems or there are a lot of other people working without any issue?
    Any positive experience with premiere cc/after effects cc and nMP?

    The alternative to Mac Pro is a windows workstation (i7 5960 / gtx 980) but we would prefer to remain in OS X environment.

    Thank you
    ALessandro


    Alessandro Cofanelli
    Top Service Audiovisivi
    http://www.topserviceitalia.com

    Chris Borjis replied 11 years, 4 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Tim Vaughan

    January 1, 2015 at 11:04 pm

    It works fine for me. I’ve got one decked pretty well, but I’ve not really experienced any issues other than the odd out-of-the-blue bug that always pops up at some point throughout the year

    Tim
    Apple XRAID, XServe, 2008 2×3 GHz Quad-Core MacPro, Macbook Pro, XSAN, Dell Studio xps PC’s
    FCP Studio (7), AVID Media Composer, Adobe Production Premium, Maxon Cinema 4d, AJA Kona 3, Flanders Scientific Monitors, Panasonic HPX250’s, Kessler Crane, Glidecam…..
    Beer fridge fully loaded.

  • Don Hertz

    January 2, 2015 at 4:06 pm

    We have 3 newer Mac Pro based editing systems at our facility and they all run great. We’ve budgeted to swap out five more rooms for the new Mac Pros in 2015. We have AJA ioXT’s on them going out to FSI monitors along with Promise Pegasus thunderbolt arrays.

    Don

  • Chris Borjis

    January 2, 2015 at 4:56 pm

    I thought the main issue some are having is related to performance with OpenCL being enabled
    and some sort of optimization issues with OpenCL and the FirePro gpus

    It seems like that will all be solved once OpenCL development has matured
    to where CUDA is with the Nvidia gpus.

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