Lance Bachelder
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Me too! Been working on it for a couple of hours – yes a paid gig that was started in previous version lol – much snappier!
One question is rec.2020 color – apparently only works on iMac or NEW Macbook Pro? Why would they care and grey it out?
It was at a Vegas premiere that I resolved to become an avid FCPX user.
Lance Bachelder
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Downtown Long Beach, California
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I just did the same! My “new” 2012 12-core 3.46Ghz arrives tomorrow! It was about 25% the cost of a nMP 12-core and about 90% of the performance though no Thunderbolt of course. Hoping Apple offers more cores on new iMac in the future… an 8 core iMac with 64GB RAM would be nice.
It was at a Vegas premiere that I resolved to become an avid FCPX user.
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
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I got to see a sneak peek of a couple of the new features at an Adobe Master Class at FOX last week. Really impressed with how serious Adobe is at making the suite as “pro” as possible. Loved some of the features in Premiere that I never used before such as having multiple Media Browsers open and using Favorites to instantly jump to things I don’t want to import such as my massive sound fx library. And the white balance picker – so simple – is something I’ve missed in FCPX.
I may have a feature film starting soon and strongly leaning toward Premiere this time…
It was at a Vegas premiere that I resolved to become an avid FCPX user.
Lance Bachelder
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Downtown Long Beach, California
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Not a big movie but selling well…
It was at a Vegas premiere that I resolved to become an avid FCPX user.
Lance Bachelder
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Downtown Long Beach, California
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Not available yet but certainly looks nicer than a black tube – though not as powerful. But for $599…
It was at a Vegas premiere that I resolved to become an avid FCPX user.
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
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That’s an old article and states: “Clock-per-clock, Core i7-5XXX and Xeon E5 v3 CPUs have identical performance”
My point was the newer 8 core i7 for instance, runs at 3.2Ghz and runs $999 – the older Xeon they tested was a 3.0Ghz model that would run you about $1299 on Amazon today. Of course if money is no object you can build a screaming dual Xeon system but I was just talking about a new i7 machine vs. a current Mac Pro – nothing else.
It was at a Vegas premiere that I resolved to become an avid FCPX user.
Lance Bachelder
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Downtown Long Beach, California
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I do think an 8 or 10 core iMac Pro would be fantastic if they can keep the price under 4 grand,
It was at a Vegas premiere that I resolved to become an avid FCPX user.
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
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The comparisons were mostly against other Xeon based workstations from HP, Dell etc and yes the Mac Pro was very competitive at the time of release.
But now we 6, 8 and 10 core i7’s which are much faster and cheaper than the Xeon’s of yesteryear. Not to mention DDR4, Thunderbolt 3, USB 3,1 etc. So for 3 grandish you can build a workstation that would bury the fastest current Mac Pro for less than half the price. Any upcoming refresh or all new Mac Pro will still probably be competitive against Dell and HP workstations but have little to no performance advantage over an i7 box.
It was at a Vegas premiere that I resolved to become an avid FCPX user.
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
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I think AE users may be a bit happier next week (IBC) – at least that’s the rumor…
It was at a Vegas premiere that I resolved to become an avid FCPX user.
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
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I have the same dilemma… and it always seems to come down to ProRes which sucks because DNxHD is the same and cross platform. Funny thing is no end user/broadcaster actually uses high end Pro Res files – they end up transcoding to LT or .MXF.
You can build a 8 core 3.2Ghz i7 PC with Thunderbolt 3, 64GB DDR4 RAM, GTX1080, M.2 drive etc etc etc for under 3 grand – way less than half an 8 core nMP and way faster (add another $700 for a 10 core 3Ghz!)! I’m thinking of waiting too but then I thought, even if Apple gives us some updated tech they’re still going to be way over-priced.
It was at a Vegas premiere that I resolved to become an avid FCPX user.
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1680680/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1