Rick Lang
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FCP X edits all flavours of ProRes including ProRes 4:2:2 directly without transcoding.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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[George Snow] “If I get X can I log and capture off an old MiniDV camcorder? “
FCP X supports HDV and DV (from miniDV tape). I don’t know about particular camera communicating with FCP x, but if iMovie supports the camera, it should be fine. I use an old Canon HV20.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Jeremy:
“It is fun to use the laptop unplugged from anything and be able to throw a second screen up on an AppleTV and actually edit, preview effects, etc…”At some point I’ll be able to use it to display on a UHD monitor at 30 fps (and it supports 4K at 24 fps).
Can’t support a 4K workflow natively of course but still for my purposes editing using lower resolutions would be all right as long as I can generate 2K or UHD deliverables. Maybe I’ll get to play with the MBPr (and the next version of the iMac) for a day. No purchases for my personal use until BMD delivers their production BMPC4K which I’m no longer expecting until after NAB2014.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Hope you are right as I just bought a maxed out MacBook Pro Retina with 1 TB PCIe flash and will get a maxed out iMac around June I think with the same 1 TB flash. These are both for my girls and need to last a long time!
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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[Bret Williams] “I turned it off for AE and my computer still went to deep sleep during a render.
“I have often disabled the Energy Saver/Computer sleep function (i.e. set it to Never). I was running a very long Time Machine backup all day and most of the night but I forgot to turn off the sleep function. The good news is the Time Machine backup finished even though iwas set to sleep in 20 minutes. I’m wondering if Mavericks has finally got this working properly. Sleep should never interfere with a hardworking process but before it seemed to occur if there was no keyboard activity.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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[Scott Williams] “Is it just a margins issue or is there a heat issue as well. Won’t 8 or 12 core CPU running at higher clock speeds than the Apple cards have a potential heat issue?”
Good question, Scott. You may be right in that the chip will get hotter faster.
The E5-2667v2 8-core processor, base clock 3.3 GHz, Turbo Boost up to 4 GHz, 25 MB L3 cache, still has a maximum TDP of 130 watts. So it should be manageable in the Mac Pro as the other processors’ TDP are all 130 watts. I think the price of $2,057 gave Apple pause as that is a very large step up from the 6-core processor they selected.
Apple presumably could have selected the E5-2643v2 6-core processor, base clock 3.5 GHz, Turbo Boost up to 3.8 GHz, 25 MB L3 cache, 130 watt TDP but it costs $1,552. Again that would have been a big jump from the 1600 series 4-core option. Apple appears to have wanted to stay in the 1600 series for all processors except the 2600 series for their 12-core processor.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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In the OP article, the OWC upgrade is the 3.3GHz 8-core but the processor costs about $2,000! At that price is becomes obvious why Apple didn’t select that higher clocked processor for their 8-core choice. Margins would suffer. When you look at the cost of a 12-core processor, there may be some who order the 4-core machine and immediately upgrade it to 12-core since they would save about $1,000 less the charges if any to do the upgrade.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Craig Seeman:
“Seems the iMac is very competitive until one sees the LuxMark test which is multi GPU aware. The dual D300s are a big advantage and this is against the iMac BTO 780M.”Although in the short term, the high-end iMac and high-end MacBook Pro Retina both look very good against the entry-level Mac Pro, during this year as more software is tuned to take advantage of the dual GPUs, the Max Pro will probably look much better for video work. The benchmark results are amazing and the current tuning of FCP X10.1 and Motion 5.1 mean that vendors will quickly respond to ensure their software remains competitive on the Mac Pro.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Kevin Patrick:
“If I understand correctly, it appears they are suggesting that an 8 core model is the best option for FCPX. Turbo mode will provide similar single core performance to the 6 core, while the extra 2 cores will be used up by the latest version of FCPX.”My reading of Anand’s findings regarding FCP X 10.1 is that FCP X is still making significant use of the CPU as I believe Walter and others mentioned in other threads with the GPU Only heavily utilized for effects. So that does make the 8-core look like a good choice as a balance of higher CPU frequencies when less cores are in use and yet a reasonable number of threads when needed. Still the 6-core looks like a good value too.
Just wish that 8-core CPU upgrade price was less costly since I am on a budget that will need to incorporate a medium size RAID (Caldigit or Pegasus2) and a 4K monitor (waiting for Apple to drop another shoe as I’m not comfortable with the Sharp implementation on the Mac Pro) and a grading monitor ((Flanders Scientific CM171) and a 4K camera (BMPC4K). Realistically it will take me more than a year to manage all that! I think I must wait and will be able to judge what’s best for me after the spring when many people will have posted their own findings and Apple may have their own 4K screen.
Blackmagic Design hasn’t updated the Configuration Guide yet for Resolve on the new Mac Pro. I hope they cN get access to several CPU models but the D700s do look like a prudent choice for 4K. Just need to know what they feel about the number of cores.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Fabrizio, you may not have noticed the detailed description regarding CalDigit T3 RAID 1 performance:
“When a RAID device is configured into a RAID 1, it traditionally reduces the speed of the drive because it will mirror the data onto all of the drives. However, the T3 with SSDs can actually keep relatively the same read speeds when configured into a RAID 1. This means that users will get the same read performance, and three automatic back-ups of their data. Traditional 2-bay RAID 1 devices tend to have speeds of around 190MB/s. The T3 in RAID 1 with SSDs can reach read speeds of 820MB/s. That’s over four times the read speed over traditional 2-bay RAIDs!”
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB