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Quad Processor Machine Speed
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[John Christie] “I’m going to be running Final Touch on the new quad and it sounds like the speed benefits will justify the price.”
Final Touch is an amazing app and we’re finally going to start using here after NAB. I’ve had it since Christmas, but had too many issues with illegal characters in our shows to really use it. But now we’ve got that all straightened out and I can’t wait to put it into production.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.comDirector, “The Rough Cut”
https://www.theroughcutmovie.comNow Posting “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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Great news Walter the greate thing about this forum is informations like that from people who earns their bread and butter using the applications. Not some journalist testing the speed of different applications without knowing weather application x is easier to use or learn to use than application y. Regarding the huge speed difference you experienced in After Effect. Was that with the stock graphic card or did you buy it with a faster card installed. My guess is the stock card do to your looming deadline. Will you keep it until the new Intel Pro mac arrives or will you use it for After Effect rendering until After Effect goes universal.
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[Jan Bliddal] “Great news Walter the greate thing about this forum is informations like that from people who earns their bread and butter using the applications.”
My pleasure to help out!
[Jan Bliddal] “Was that with the stock graphic card or did you buy it with a faster card installed. My guess is the stock card do to your looming deadline. Will you keep it until the new Intel Pro mac arrives or will you use it for After Effect rendering until After Effect goes universal.”
Stock graphics card, right out of the box. Just ran down to CompUSA and grabbed the machine off the shelf.
Yeah, I’m thinking of using this as my main After Effects render engine until it goes Universal, though I’ll wait to see how fast it runs on the Intels. Regardless, I’ll have a very fast third computer once I install Intels in both edit suites.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.comDirector, “The Rough Cut”
https://www.theroughcutmovie.comNow Posting “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network
“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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Interesting and informative as ever – and the first time I’ve seen anyone compare systems in the real world like this.
I was put off buying a quad for our company, purely because the only vaguely relevent benchmarks I could find suggested that the quad was SLOWER than our dual 2.7mhzs at Imovie renders. We recently purchased a reconditioned 2.7 from Apple because I didn’t think it was worth the extra cost for a quad, and I’d better wait for the Mac Pro (yuck) systems in August. Unfortunately, when the system came, it was dead (power supply dead, fan in backwards, CPU had dropped off. Thanks Apple), so I still need another system.
Why have Apple not been shouting these Quad figures from the rooftop – as well as the 5.1 speed boosts?
Walter – Can you post a comparison for FCP renders between your systems? Love to know if FCP harnesses the quad power…
Ben
Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS and FCP specialists
Current Mac systems All Dual 2.7Ghz with Kona 2 and Digital Voodoo cards, 6Gb Ram, Sapphire, SCSI320 Medea and Huge Arrays.FCP projects include Sky TV coverage of the Ryder Cup and US Open Golf – Live OB specialists. Edit/slomo vehicle.
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We’ll I can tell you that I’ve experience similare speed-increases as Walter, if not more. I don’t have all the figures in front of me but here are a few:
20s Uncompressed 10-bit 4:2:2 HD to MPEG2 HD (1-PASS VBR + AIFF Audio)
Dual Core 2.3 G5: 68s
Quad Core 2.5 G5: 42s3x20s Uncompressed 10-bit 4:2:2 SD to MPEG2 SD (1-PASS VBR + AC3 Audio)
Dual CPU 500Mhz G4: 300s
Dual CPU 2.5 G5: 70s
Quad Core 2.5 G5: 37sThat’s what I call a GOOD speed-up!
In After Effects I’ve gone from little over five hours to below two hours in rendering speed (Dual Core 2.3 vs Quad 2.5). With-out the NUCLEO plugin I was at about 7 hours on the same sequence
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Our best numbers with our Quad was when we had to compress 45 30 minutes programs to iPod video.
G5 Dual 2 = 1 hour and 15 for each 30 minutes
G5 Quad = 10 Minutes for each 30 minutes
This was using Quicktime for the compressing. Compressor is twice as fast.Dajen Productions
Santa Barbara, CA
G5 Quad – AJA Kona LHe
Huge 1.2 Raid
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Are you getting similar results in FCP?
Anyone compared Final Cut uncompressed 10 bit 1080P on the Quad? -
Just thought I could pass on a link to some G5 Quad Tests:
https://www.fcpug.se/forum/showthread.php?t=308
Even-though it’s a Swedish MUG the test is written in English.
Simply put: the Quad is FAST.
Enjoy!
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