[Uli Plank]

Strange. Sure about the sample rate?

Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts

[Uli Plank]

Maybe the audience doesn’t care for the jello effect? After all, people are getting used to distorted realities…

Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts

[Uli Plank]

The minimum would be 2 GB per core, but AE loves RAM and now with 64 bit it can use it to the max.

Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts

[Uli Plank]

Any serious program for video production hates compressed audio. And me too!
Audio compression is the very last thing to do in a production chain, the space needed for uncompressed audio is ridiculous compared to HD video.

Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts

[Uli Plank]

Unfortunately yes – the RS is about twice as bad in the Red One.

Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts

[Uli Plank]

I have to agree, and don’t forget stability by better memory management.
Speed of a software alone is no speed gain at all if your workflow get’s interrupted several times a day…

I tested the 64 bit version of Neatvideo in AE CS5, and it’s very stable when processing 4K images while the same footage crashed again and again under CS4.

Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts

[Uli Plank]

Yes, CS5 is editing native footage from the 5D just fine.

Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts

[Uli Plank]

If Premiere Pro is important too, the iMac is NOT for you. There’s only a limited number of nVidia cards supported for hardware acceleration. And, believe me, you’ll want it!

Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts

[Uli Plank]

In many cases the quality is better than software only, scaling for example.

Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts

[Uli Plank]

Thank you for the kind words, Todd.

Well, to give you a first impression, Dave: on my MacPro Xeon (non Nehalem) with 16 GB RAM After Effects is playing H.264 straight from the D5 at 16 fps – about half RT.

AVCHD from a Canon HG21 is playing at 15 fps (originally 25 fps progressive).

XDCAM footage from a Sony EX-1 in 1080i50 is playing around 11 fps (MPEG-2 @ 35 mbps).

All of these are without any effects.

Regards,

Uli

Disclaimer: Other than having been a member of the beta program, I’m in no way affiliated to Adobe.

Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts