Rick Lang
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Pardon my typo, of course HD is 1920×1080.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Solely based on the Resolve 9 tests with three nodes, it looks like the tricked-out iMac can support 24-30 fps of CinemaDNG raw from the Blackmagic Cinema Camera. The CinemaDNG raw is 2400×1350 compared to HD 1980×1080 or about 1.5x the effort to process compared to HD. I believe I read a post recently from someone who said they were getting realtime playback of 24fps for CinemaDNG, but these benchmark tests appear to support that in a controlled test.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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The upgraded machine is likely fine for FCPX but if you want to use Resolve 9 Lite, which should appeal to you since it is free, then you want to use the NVIDIA GTX 680MX card with 2GB video memory and lots more CUDA cores.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Lance, looking forward to a future post of your experience with TouchEdit on a feature! If you can find the time, that would be quite the proof of TouchEdit’s facility within a large workflow and an accomplishment for the iPad to support. Would be very interested in how you manage space requirements on the larger iPad as I may upgrade from the 64GB version this year. Thanks for the post.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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[Paul Jay] “ProRes 422 1920×1080 25fps
I’ve tested BMC RAW footage as well.
I get full playback with 5 blur nodes……On an iMac.”Nice. Was that ProRes 422 (HQ)?
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Thanks, Oliver. Lots of reactionary comments in all these links. My physical film editing is minimal using a simple splicer to begin with and then a flatbed editor. But I certainly don’t get confused by film strips moving from left to right under the playhead! Still seems an interesting attempt for an early version with options for less skeuomorphics in the future. Limiting one’s HD video to H.264 isn’t bad for the intended purpose and device but if video is not shot in that natively (I am still HDV until I step up to the Blackmagic Cinema Camera), then it’s not such an easy fit in the workflow. And you certainly need to make ingesting original video easy. I think I’ll wait and see on this. The appeal of being so mobile and working almost anywhere offline is attractive though on a tool that’s lighter than the MacBook Air and with a better screen. Since getting this iPad for Christmas, it has changed what I do on the iMac. I agree with the basic premise of developing TouchEdit, that the touch experience adds an intangible value to the experience of what you are doing. More so so than even voice commands or tapping on a small trackpad or with a mouse click.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Yes, using the iPad to control FCPX and possibly Resolve would be interesting although I think there is another thread on that bemoaning the lack of haptics on the iPad.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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I have been told that the answer is “No.” On a Mac, the GUI screen is limited to 8bit colour by the operating system and the colour accurate data is going to your grading monitor, typically 10bit or better, via an SDI connection. Sorry I am not an authority on this topic but noticed your questioned had received no answer.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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[Tom Sefton] “If you read my posts you can see that I am trying to purchase a Mac system for DaVinci resolve work that has thunderbolt ports for fast storage swaps. At present, a single 1 or 2GB GPU isn’t going to cut it for this (which is the only option for the iMac and can’t be upgraded).
I might be thinking yesterday here – if so, can you suggest a Mac system for working on RAW files from the Blackmagic Camera inside Resolve?”
Ah, Tom, I had not realized those goals. You’ve said the magic words to unlock my grumpiness: Blackmagic Cinema Camera! Resolve’s processor and GPU demands will be the software that drives Apple’s new hardware sales for some users, like you. FCPX runs very well on an iMac; Resolve wants tomorrow’s big iron.
This excitement over machines fuelled by the GeForce GTX Titan seems a little over-heated to me when you examine NVIDIA’s own benchmarks–an improvement over the 680 but within reason, nothing earth-shattering, nothing that could not have been branded a 695 instead of the mighty powerful “Titan”. The nicest part of the Titan may be the 6GB GDDR5 memory as I agree the 680MX on the iMac will not suffice for all purposes. The processors are going to be running your work slower on the 680 than the Titan, but it will do it to a degree. But if the frame rate on the BMCC CinemaDNG clips is 2 to 4 frames a second on the 680MX, it may only be twice that on the Titan. A more severe problem is simply exhausting all the video memory and things effectively grinding to a halt.
Now that Apple is being sued for planned obsolescence, their engineers may have to think twice about constantly providing upgrades that are just below what you might expect so that you’ll need to buy a replacement a year or two earlier than you want to.
I do believe your best option, given we are all filthy rich and unrestricted by budget (or we wouldn’t be using Apple gear in the first place), is waiting for the mythical updating of the Mac Pro. I too believe it will include at least two Thunderbolt ports and possibly more, and will be able to support Apples implementation of the Titan if not a different class of NVIDIA GPU. Dual or triple Titans via SLI? Perhaps not. Thunderbolt storage device options are becoming more plentiful and 2013 should prove to be a watershed year introducing the next generation of “Mac Pros”.
There I’m not feeling so grumpy, still crazy though, and I think we can all sell our second cars to help finance these things just to keep the competition honest. Apologies for not understanding your perspective better initially.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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[Mark Dobson] “When the new MacPro is launched I’ll review the situation although I think the iMac will keep me up to speed for a couple of years.
Still a sad day for the old MacPro.”
I’m sure Apple would be willing to sell current Mac Pros in the EU but their hands are tied by a couple of EU safety regulations related to the fan and ports prohibiting new sales as of March 1. If someone needs a Mac Pro and can find one, it can still be sold, but Apple can’t supply new ones. Who knows when the replacement machine is coming, but it is coming sometime “later in 2013” as you know. Unless EU regulations prohibit sale of the replacement!
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB