Marcus Moore
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Agreed. While it’s nice to know this is possible for repairability. I think the likelihood is that by the time there’s an affordable, worthwhile bump in processor speeds (3 years) there’s likely to be other reasons people that interested in performance will want to move to whatever the 2016 year version of the MP is. Mostly likely the next major revision to Thunderbolt.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Only one person can be working on a Library at any given time. So, in this scenario, we are working in two libraries anyway.”
Right now we don’t have true multi-editor in one Library workflow, that’s not what I’m suggesting. Let’s say you have 2 blocks of shooting. The material is logged and prepped by an assistant and given to the editor in a new Library as BLOCK1. The editor goes to work.
Footage starts coming in for the second block of shooting, maybe lasting several days. At another station on a common network, the assistant goes about importing and logging BLOCK2 in his copy of the Library. When he’s done, he just exports an Event XML of BLOCK2 and the editor can import it into his copy of the Library. Super simple.
And of course you can still search across all Events in one Library by doing your search while the Library is selected.
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I think the idea is that each Event can be a closed off grouping of footage. This way you could have someone logging material from Location Shoot B, while you’re working footage from Location Shoot A. Then, when that material is logged and ready, the editor can be sent an XML of that Event to add to the overall Project Library (with footage already located on common networked storage).
It’s a lot less likely to cause problems when integrating new footage then being sent a new currentversion.event file, or trying to merge Events.
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My last MacPro was a maxed out G5 QUAD. Unfortunately prematurely dead-ended by the Intel switch.
Since I had to let that one go (but still got $800 dollars for it!) I’ve been able to run on laptops and now this iMac for the past 4 years, waiting for this release. I’m hoping a well endowed MP will last me 3 years, so I’m happy to spend more now for a system that’s got some headroom. The only thing that may outdate the system prematurely would be Thunderbolt3, whenever that comes along (if past is prologue, 2 years from now). But depending on what that jump is (another doubling or straight to Intel’s goal of Optical 100Gb/s) and how formats have evolved, it may or may not be a must have.
I’ve already ordered mine, and went with 8-core, 1TB SSD, 64GB RAM and D700s.
While everyone might not need to full horsepower of the D700s now, at $600 is almost an impossibly smart upgrade.
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I agree that the 6-core with the D700s will probably be the most popular video workstation for anyone not worried about 4K in the medium term.
I think the 8-core covers those willing to spend the extra $1500 against apps that are more CPU dependant. If you work primarily in FCPX and Motion, I think you’d definitely be better to spend your money on more RAM.
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Apparently in turbo boost, the 8-core gets to pretty much the same speeds as the 6-core.
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Don’t feel too bad, anyone who’s order went in after the first few hours was listed as “February”. Because I had to go thru the legwork of a lease, my order didn’t go in until the 26th.
I’m hoping that Apple is being conservative with it’s ship estimates, AND/OR that those estimates depend on which configuration options you choose. And most hopefully, that my configuration is not in as high demand. But we’ll see.
THE VERGE’s review noted a discrepancy in performance with RED files between FCPX and Premier. Initially I thought that perhaps the Verge’s video crew wasn’t running the latest update you mention, but after reading thru the comments in that article, The Verge claims that they were running the most recent version. So it may be that there’s a ways to go before Adobe is getting comparable OpenCL performance with CUDA.
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We’ve know for sure since October that the SSD and RAM would be user replaceable. Anything beyond that would be a bonus.
“User Replaceable” is of course a very specific term. Perhaps CPUs and GPUs will be replaceable, as a service from Apple stores. It’s certainly not anything they’ve done before (outside of in-store repairs)- but who knows.
As I said in another thread- the thing most likely to outmode this new MacPro will be the next iteration of Thunderbolt. But we’re likely 2-3 years away from that.
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I went with:
8-core
1TB SSD
64GB RAM
D700sI’m leasing, so the two little upgrades- 32GB to 64GB of RAM and jumping from 512 to the 1TB HD were relatively insignificant in terms of the month to month cost. It’s a two year lease with relatively little overhead.
I’m figuring on this being my machine for at least 3 years. So unless there’s some major shift after 2 years; this is my machine until 2017.
The only thing I can see getting me to move off it sooner would be another big Thunderbolt jump. From 20Gb/s to whatever the next big jump is. And even then I’d need to see a benefit in that extra bandwidth to upgrade sooner.
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It’s basically just iPhoto and iTunes Libraries. I was planning to buy a 512 SSD and outbound both, but I decided to lease so the extra $500 for the extra 1/2 TB didn’t make much of a difference in the month to month cost.