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RedSharkNews: RED gets huge GPU workflow boost!
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[Andrew Kimery] ” don’t know how much RED cares about banging on Apple’s door anymore.”
They’re still banging pretty hard given they developed RED plugin with FCPX compatibility.
https://www.red.com/learn/workflow/red-apple-workflow-final-cut-pro-x
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Andrew, good information and you may be right but I wonder if the new Apple under Tim Cook will show more interest given the popularity of RED and the desire to showcase the new Mac Pro. I would imaging Resolve 10 will be featured with the rollout, but there may be more pro apps they’d like to have playing in their sandbox using OpenCL.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Craig,
I didn’t mean to imply that RED was ignoring Apple workflows, just that they might not actively collaborating with Apple behind the scenes like they were a number of years ago. IIRC it was 12-18 months after launch by the time FCPX got RED support was it not?
Rick,
The Apple house under Cook could very well be more cooperative than it was under Jobs. Grant Petty of Blackmagic did sound like he had some behind-the-scenes time w/the new Mac Pro while I don’t remember any similar sound bites coming from the RED team. -
I think poor timing might have been the issue there. If the events are right in my head- even if the dev team wasn’t already working on what would become FCPX, they knew they were going to be recoding from scratch after 64bit carbon support was formally dropped in 2007. This also lead to the lack-luster 2009 release of FCS3 (which would have been 64 bit well before the competition along with Logic).
Realizing they would have been writing a RED workflow for a dead platform, they probably couldn’t justify any serious development.
It’s a theory anyway.
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Speculating about an unreleased RED product and an unreleased Apple product together, in the same thread? That’s like crossing the streams!
Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
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[Marcus Moore] “I’m not sure if these newer benchmarks were posted here- for anyone’s interest, much better results than the ones from July (and likely still not accurate to the scores for the final machine)”
Do the benchmarks matter?
It’ll be the fastest Mac ever, no matter what benchmark you look at. It’ll be comparable to comparably-equipped PCs, though finding a comparably-equipped PC will require some customization. It’ll lag top of the line PC configurations by embarrassing margins on any benchmark, but these PCs will be bigger, cost serious money, probably lack Thunderbolt, and will not run FCPX.
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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Benchmarks on their own, nope. And these scores are still a few steps removed from what we might see out of the actual Mac hardware anyway.
But with OpenGL being widely adopted on most of the major applications now, it will be interesting to see some app specific testing by guys like Barefeats.
With the CPU, RAM, and GPUs all likely being pretty expensive, maxing out the machine on all front will be pretty costly- so analysis like theirs will likely help a lot of people decide on the best configuration for their specific use case.
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Total protonic reversal..!
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Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!
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Andrew:
“Human sacrifice…”Like that idea. Now that deserves its own (not too serious) thread. I’m sure we all have a few sacrifices we would gladly offer to the gods, as long as they are not self-sacrifices.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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