[Gary Huff]

It looks nice to me on the general front. About to start a big project in it here in the next day or so, so I feel more comfortable knowing the ins and outs when I’m in the middle of it.

Looking foward to most of the plugins I have been eyeing for a while getting updated to FxPlug3 more than anything.

[Gary Huff]

What is the performance like with this plugin? Do the scopes lag much on updating?

[Gary Huff]

[Andrew Richards] “I’m also not sure it matters with respect to performance.”

It probably doesn’t now, but it’s still nice to have. Though, I think an improvement in the visual output that it does would be more welcome than 64-bit at this point when it gets right down to it.

[Gary Huff]

[Simon Ubsdell] ”
Do you reckon I need to be a bit more persistent?”

No, that should be good, just making sure you were aware that you could do such a thing.

[Gary Huff]

[Jeremy Garchow] ”
I stand by my earlier comment, but the biggest SSD you can.”

Agreed. If you’re getting it now, don’t take the risk.

I have the 1TB in my new Retina. It’s awesome. I don’t know if I’d need more than 512GB in the Mac Pro though with the external storage options and the fact that it’s not meant to be portable like the laptop is.

[Gary Huff]

[Simon Ubsdell] “I just wanted to point out that for me the lack of gang sync and replace edit (the real kind) are actually impediments of such magnitude that I find it really hard to migrate my work to X with any confidence, knowing that I will almost always absolutely require these functions in the course of a typical job. (The workarounds that I have to resort to are teeth-achingly painful and slow.)”

Have you submitted feature requests within the app?

[Gary Huff]

[Adam White] “Now there will be no more disagreements and everyone can coalesce around the new beloved editing system of choice…”

This is a very nice update all around, though you’ll still have people who find the magnetic timeline is not for them (understandable) or those that don’t realize there have been updates since 10.0.0 (inexcusable).

[Gary Huff]

[Kevin Patrick] “Is the flash storage upgradable? I didn’t think it was.”

I wouldn’t think so. Nor is the GPU from what I can tell, despite the rumors.

But perhaps an iFixIt teardown would give the final word. Damn those guys…nice shiny hardware and they just rip it open like that!

[Gary Huff]

[Andrew Richards] “32-bit so far in my limited testing.”

Well, crap. Hopefully the output has been improved. Never have cared for the quality of Compressor’s output, especially its scaler, yikes.

[Gary Huff]

[Daniel Frome] “If rendering is your primary gig, then more cores are better, but I’ll take a guess and say that the 6 core config will be the fastest option for video editors. 6 cores is already plenty CPU horsepower, with the clock speed ultimately making the most difference in day-to-day editing tasks.”

Obviously, we need to see some numbers on this, but I would be worried that any MacPro configuration in the 4-core arena (and less than the D700) is going to show only marginal improvement (if any) in day-to-day operations over an iMac with the 780M 4GB. If I was purchasing a MacPro at the moment, I’d be opting for the 8-core D700 32GB RAM version at the bare minimum.