[Erik Mickelson]

I am only running one stream anyway.

CrippleBook Pro 2.3Ghz i7, 16GB ram, Lion 10.7.3, FCPStudio 3, QT 7

[Erik Mickelson]

Forgot, This was tested using an eSata 4gb raid. Sonnett Tempo Pro card 108MB read, 175MB write as of last AJA Speed test @ 1920×1080 8 bit, 2.0GB.

It’s the same or worse than CS5. So far I am leaning toward worse performance than CS5.

CrippleBook Pro 2.3Ghz i7, 16GB ram, Lion 10.7.3, FCPStudio 3, QT 7

[Erik Mickelson]

Nope, NOT impressed with the performance of CS6 one bit. This is on my MacBook Pro with supported Open CL graphics card. MTS files are stuttering in playback. I round tripped to AE CS6 to use Keylight on an mts file, white background solid to make sure key is working.

Result: dropped frames all the way down to 1/4 quality. I even get dropped frames at Full after rendering the timeline. Nope NOT impressed at all with the promise of accelerated playback on my machine.

I do like the new feathered mask tool in AE. I do like the better 3-way CC in PPro. I do like the new Trimming tool(auto Ripple, Roll), seems like we can select discontigous clips and roll, nice.

CrippleBook Pro 2.3Ghz i7, 16GB ram, Lion 10.7.3, FCPStudio 3, QT 7

[Erik Mickelson]

I think the problem is MTS files. Searching the web, MTS seems to be the bane of Lion/Editing aps. I will keep going and give CS6 a run through before May 3rd(upgrade 10% off until then).

I do have a raid but thought I would see how all this Open CL hardware acceleration affects portable workflow. If it does indeed speed things up(does NOT appear to be true in my case) I could leave the raid at home for small/quickie jobs/video assist. CS6 just seems slower than CS5 from here.

Again, this is critiquing a pre-pre-release software and is not to be trusted!

CrippleBook Pro 2.3Ghz i7, 16GB ram, Lion 10.7.3, FCPStudio 3, QT 7

[Erik Mickelson]

Well, not so good. That is the answer for Open CL acceleration on Macbook Pro. I “upgraded” to Lion and performance takes a serious hit. What I was able to preview in real time on Snow Leopard CS5 and “CS6 preview” is now dropping frames in Lion. Overall Lion seems to be a clunkier, slower interface than Snow Leopard.

Example:
Layer 2: 1 keyed actor with Ultra Key and Adobe 3-wat CC.
Layer 1: Background layer 200%, BCC Cartooner applied.
In Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and CS6 and “CS6 preview” the playback preview was in RT at full, occasionally dropped frames but caught up and back to RT. This is with Mercury Playback Software mode.

In Lion and “CS6 preview”, Full Res, laggy timeline and constant frozen/dropped frames, dropped frames indicator solid yellow. At 1/2 res playback playhead goes for about 2-3 seconds and then drops frames, drop frame indicator then turns yellow for duration of preview. This is with Open CL hardware acceleration turned ON.

I realize that this is an unsupported trial release but it worked much better in Snow Leopard. Lets hope Adobe gets it together.

CrippleBook Pro 2.3Ghz i7, 8GB ram, SLeopard 10.6.8, FCPStudio 3, QT 7

[Erik Mickelson]

Can you wait for a month or two? Ivy Bridge is just coming out. Native Pcie3 support, less power more performance, cheaper to buy, own and operate. Of course YMMV because it’s not out yet.

I was going to jump on the 3930k chip but then found out that it is just a gap-stop before Ivy Bridge. No native support for Pcie3 on the SB-E chipset AFAIK. Of course 6×6 HT vs 4×4 HT processors are another thing;) 12 processors on the 3930k would rip through encoding.

CrippleBook Pro 2.3Ghz i7, 8GB ram, SLeopard 10.6.8, FCPStudio 3, QT 7

[Erik Mickelson]

Holy cr@p! Thanks Tom! I was just going to download/update direct, I’ll research and get my backup squared away.

Thanks again, you have somehow/probably saved me a full work day.

Now… off to hook up my non-supported Blu Ray to archive the system to a single disk…

I’ll report back with a mini review of CS6 Premiere Pro after the Lion update. I can say that the 3-way CC is MUCH smoother and responds better than the previous version, I can really bring the highlights up and it does NOT crunch and blow out, extremely well done! Unbelievable really.

Great job so far Adobe.

CrippleBook Pro 2.3Ghz i7, 8GB ram, SLeopard 10.6.8, FCPStudio 3, QT 7

[Erik Mickelson]

Gahh!!!! Apple got me again! What is it, $30?

I see a PeeCee in my near future.

CrippleBook Pro 2.3Ghz i7, 8GB ram, SLeopard 10.6.8, FCPStudio 3, QT 7

[Erik Mickelson]

The card is Pcie3. That’s the big deal. Twice the processing power of Pcie2. So at half the voltage it will equal a pcie2 card, or in x8 slot it will perform the same as a Pcie2 in a 16x slot. See what that means? It will not matter the slots multiplier, you will not have to worry what slots are open. I don’t think anything can saturate a Pcie2 bus except for uncompressed footage. So put the raid on the x16 slot and the video card on a x8.

CrippleBook Pro 2.3Ghz i7, 8GB ram, SLeopard 10.6.8, FCPStudio 3, QT 7

[Erik Mickelson]

Mac???

CrippleBook Pro 2.3Ghz i7, 8GB ram, SLeopard 10.6.8, FCPStudio 3, QT 7