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In this first article he compares it’s performance to an iMac, performing a plethora of tests with different types of video content, codecs and lengths.

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Larry Jordan has two interesting articles on video compression on the Mac Pro.

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Adobe Media Encoder Vs Compressor on the Mac Pro The 7.2 release of Adobe Premiere CC provided support for the dual GPU’s found in the Mac Pro – although only one is used for playback, but both increase the speeds of exports. The performance of both Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro X on this hardware is way more than most people need, most of the time. Philip Hodgetts has run some ‘real-world’ tests on the updated version of Premiere Pro with R3D files, based on the simple test mentioned above.īottom line is that the Mac Pro 2013 is a very fine computer for Premiere Pro CC given an optimized release (mid December 2013, version 7.2.1).

If you’re still wondering about the difference between the Nvidia GPU vs the AMD GPU discussion then this short post from Linear Post should help you out.Īlthough this next link from Business Insider, is a complete aside from color grading, it’s interesting to see that studios like Pixar are using the Mac Pro in their pipeline. It’s critical to keep my studio as quiet as possible, so that’s a plus.

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On the tests below where I rendered 5K files using the full debayering feature, the Mac Pro was pushing warm air out the top but there was no loud rush of fan noise. Frankly, I never heard it, as even the quietest disk drives seemed to be louder than Mac Pro. Very interesting listening!Ĭolorist Tom Parish has blogged about his experiences in testing the new Mac Pro for color grading and whether an iMac might be a better buy depending on your performance requirements.

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For a full run down of all the tests, the results and what they all mean, plus a PDF download of the results, head over to the Lift Gamma Gain forum. The colorist’s conclude that the 8-Core with a D700 and 32gbs of RAM might be the sweet spot in terms of best bang for buck. In the latest Coloristo’s podcast Jason Myres leads a discussion on his round of color grading tests on both a 6-Core and 12-Core machines in Resolve 10.

Is it a sign of Resolve’s ever growing market domination in the color grading world? Whatever it means here is a round up of what some colorists make of the new Mac Pro:

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It is interesting to note that the other ‘headline’ software that Apple point to on the official Mac Pro site is Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve 10. If you force full res you’ll get same shitty/awful performance on both. Now FCPX is probably doing ‘adaptively debayering’ in order to achieve this – which colorist Juan Salvo had this to say about FCPX is doing adaptive debayer… Between 1/8-1/2. Phillip Hodgetts, who is an outspoken supporter of FCPX, posted this video of FCPX playing back 5 streams of native RED RAW files in real time. In other words, the 12-core Mac Pro has no advantage over the 6-core (12 with hyperthreading) - at least in this instance. Motion uses only 3 cores to render the RAM Preview. It may have to do with core clock speed since FCPX uses only 8 cores to render the two effects.

Interestingly in these Mac Pro benchmarks the 6-core D500 configuration beat out the 12-core D700 config. With these settings in place, skimming and playback was very responsive, with the exception of the 4K RED RAW footage which dropped frames on playback (though skimming was absolutely fine).ī did their own FCPX and MacPro test and posted these results. Next, I switched the Viewer’s menu from the default “Best Performance” option to “Best Quality”. I took a quick trip into FCP’s preferences, disabled the background rendering function and enabled the dropped frames warning.

FCP.co posted this report on their first 24 hours with the new Mac Pro and had this to say about the performance in FCPX:įor the purposes of testing, I decided I’d try and see what I could do in real time. So what software works best on the new Mac Pro? Final Cut Pro X on the Mac ProĪs FCPX 10.1 is obviously Apple’s own product, it works extremely well on Apple’s own hardware. Two of the main benefits of those cores packed into the new Mac Pro is the ability to split (thread) parts of high performance tasks to each core, therefore getting the job done faster, and sending computational instructions to the two GPU’s that ship with each Mac Pro configuration.īut as the Mac Pro is new, there aren’t a load of software applications that are ready to do that multi-threading work. The new Mac Pro offers powerful performance, but which video editing applications are best suited for the system?