Question for new MacPro owners

[Jeremy Garchow]

Absolutely love it.

I don’t know if you read this earlier, but this is what I am currently doing:

Real time mixed res multicam (4k and 1080) in a 1080 timeline with 18 channels of available audio, a chromakey, with multiple grades, with scale and crop on video layers, two stacked, keyframed, and animated layers of type, all in real time, in full quality (best quality not better performance) SDI to a monitor, using native XAVC MXF media (not ProRes or Proxy). Not one render, background or otherwise, until export.

8 core, dual 700s.

[Steve Connor]

Thanks Jeremy, I did notice that post!

Steve Connor
Mellowing slowly

[Aindreas Gallagher]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Real time mixed res multicam (4k and 1080) in a 1080 timeline with 18 channels of available audio, a chromakey, with multiple grades, with scale and crop on video layers, two stacked, keyframed, and animated layers of type, all in real time, in full quality (best quality not better performance) SDI to a monitor, using native XAVC MXF media (not ProRes or Proxy). Not one render, background or otherwise, until export. “

to be fair:

https://img.pandawhale.com/post-28553-Steve-Jobs-mind-blown-gif-HD-T-pVbd.gif

https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics

[Mitch Ives]

I’m happy, but I was coming from a 2008 MP with a 5870 video card, so I should see improvements, wouldn’t you think?

It’s interesting, because many things are faster, while others don’t seem to be any faster at all. I’m surprised by some of that. I haven’t bothered to document all the details… rendering is definitely a lot faster, but I guess I was expecting to see a lot of rendering disappear all together, which I’m not seeing.

I’m giving Apple some time to update the OS and hoping that the FCP X team will be able to further optimize things, once they’re allowed to get back on FCP X development.

The machine is extraordinarily quiet, which I love. You do want to carefully assign TB devices to the three different buses to get maximum speed, which I’ve done. TB2 disk arrays are amazing to watch on this machine. I’m getting 850-970.

Cheap USB 3.o drives are very quick on the new MP… makes Firewire drives look painfully slow.

FWIW, I’m on a maxed out 8-core…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Jason Jenkins]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Real time mixed res multicam (4k and 1080) in a 1080 timeline with 18 channels of available audio, a chromakey, with multiple grades, with scale and crop on video layers, two stacked, keyframed, and animated layers of type, all in real time, in full quality (best quality not better performance) SDI to a monitor, using native XAVC MXF media (not ProRes or Proxy). Not one render, background or otherwise, until export.

8 core, dual 700s.”

How much of that is CPU, how much is GPU and how much is drive speed? And I want exact percentages 😉

Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style!

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[Jeremy Garchow]

Nice one!

[Jeremy Garchow]

I can’t give you percentages, but CPU hovers around 4-600% when playing back through that malaise.

I have no idea about GPU (is there a measurement available)?

Drive speed is 700MB/sec available (via shared fibre storage), but seems to read 50-200MB/sec during playback.

[Jason Jenkins]

[Jeremy Garchow] “CPU hovers around 4-600% when playing back through that malaise”

I’m not sure how to interpret that. Would 8 cores max out at 800%?

Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style!

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[Jeremy Garchow]

1600%, theoretically.

[Jason Jenkins]

[Jeremy Garchow] “1600%, theoretically.”

So you are maxing out at less than 40% CPU capacity. I’m pondering a Mac Pro purchase, but can’t afford the 8-core. Looking at the 6-core D700 config.

Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style!

Check out my Mormon.org profile.