I think you might be pushing the timescale somewhat. I’d rather rely on machines & software versions I know will work.
99% of it might work, but it could be that 1% that doesn’t get you on air.
Yes the GPU will come into play with FCP, when? who knows but I would strongly recommend you buy the beefiest GPU
there is to stuff into a new MP. As we have said before Nvidia seem ahead of the curve with SLI implementation – could we
possibly stuff more cards in to use them to render faster? Again, who knows!
Just to give you an idea, I’m working on a plugin for Motion to replicate a script I wrote in Shake. Shake took ten minutes
to render, the plugin runs in just about realtime. Seriously cool.
Peter
Free Motion Templates
https://www.peterwiggins.com