[Gary Huff]

[Andy Branner] “Especially since a “real pro” would nevah evah use Proxy either way to make his life easier. Oh wait… in which case the original, native format becomes utterly irrelevant.”

If you are going to be dogmatic about something, it usually helps to know what you’re talking about.

Format matters. It takes time to transcode proxies, and that may not be time that I want to spend. I want to know what the capabilities are with what formats so that I know what I am looking at when I have to make an educated guess as to how long a certain project will take.

FCP7 works great with ProRes, but not at all with REDCODE. So that project I used the ProRes 422 Standard straight off my Ninja-2 recorder on the C100 takes a lot less time to get going than the 6K Dragon RECODE footage.

If Apple’s claims about 4k playback are SOLELY for ProRes 4:2:2 4k footage and not at all for XAVC or REDCODE, then it’s not that useful, now is it?

[Gary Huff]

[Andy Branner] “Like I said before, this was also shown live to several people after the event. I just unfortunately can’t find the link. They spoke of “16 angle, unrendered, 4K multicam”.”

Format is going to be what matters here. Is it the 4:2:2 ProRes flavor of 4k that will be in the Blackmagic 4k camera? What if it’s not quite as easy with XAVC, much less REDCODE.

[Gary Huff]

[Steven J Dorr] “Please change this forum title to, “Apple FCPX The Debate,” and drop the, “or Not.”
Also, please add a new forum titled, “Apple FCPX.””

I’m curious…exactly how would your life be improved by Creative Cow making these changes?

[Gary Huff]

[Shane Ross] “”Hey, look, Dean Devlin is using the new FCX with the new MacPros.””

Dean Devlin was a big name back in the 90s…

[Gary Huff]

[Rick Lang] “That’s 3GB on each of the two GPUs so 6GB VRAM in total.”

Are you sure it’s not 1.5GB on each for a total of 3GB?

[Gary Huff]

[Darren Roark] “Apple are really good at squeezing as much performance out of their hardware. Me, not so much.”

I’m not sure you realize that you’re comparing Apples to Oranges. First of all, benchmarking software is really not a good indicator of performance, given it’s limited ability to test things. It’s a Quad Core CPU in that MBP, and a Quad-Core CPU in your Hackintosh (you haven’t given specs, but I bet it’s just a Core i7 desktop variety).

Geekbench isn’t really going to show an improvement of 32GB over 16GB for instance. But it will be there when you go to work on stuff.

[Gary Huff]

[Darren Roark] “But I bet the cheapest new mac pro will run circles around it with how integrated the hardware is.”

The only thing it will be noticeably faster in is the PCIe-based storage, that you can always add later to your Hackintosh.

Seriously, if it was the “integration” that made it faster, then why wouldn’t an iMac also run circles around yours?

[Gary Huff]

[Neil Patience] “Cost: $2999 base configuration – 3.7GHz, 12GB RAM, 256GB SSD, 2GB.”

Not worth getting in my opinion, considering you can’t upgrade anything other than the RAM.

[Gary Huff]

[TImothy Auld] “You did that with FCPX?”

Dropping a template into FCPX isn’t exactly earth-shattering.

[Gary Huff]

[Dave Gage] “I wish these models had USB 3 built-in, but I can live with Thunderbolt and FW800.”

That’s my biggest problem. Yes, I have basically the same kitted out MBP 17″ now (currently writing this on it) and I love it, but USB3 bites me in the ass every time a producer tosses a bus-powered drive at me to store the REDCODE or ProResHQ footage that I’m shooting.

Even after I have specifically ask for FW800, eSATA, or TBolt. It’s either because they couldn’t find anything else, or the other drives were “too expensive”.

Though that new Caldigit dock looks promising. The Belkin apparently has “meh” USB3 performance.