Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #41678
From: Teddy Gage <teddygage@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [AE] The Future of the Mac Pro in Video Post
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:33:18 -0500
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    But that's the whole issue. Nobody's sure if there will even BE another generation of mac pros. It's been 18 months since the last refresh already. And if you're a studio faced with upgrading one more round, and then not having support or a continued upgrade path after that, you're not going to be investing thousands of dollars in apple hardware. it would be suicide. This isn't even factoring in the FCP X lack of tape output, EDLs, etc... and a clearly "prosumer" oriented refocus. The statistic I came away with from that article was that Apple's entire Pro annual market sales equal one day of a new iPad release. Sure the "new" features are nice but Premiere had CUDA, speech-to-text and multithreading almost a year before X. FCP 7.0 / X will no longer be relevant in the pro video space in two years. Maybe less..

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 3:46 PM, James Culbertson <albion@speakeasy.net> wrote:
I imagine most video pros will want to stick with a MacPro for at least one more generation before depending upon Thunderbolt extensively.

I'm waiting for the next revision of MacPro before upgrading personally. Though i can see how iMacs and MacBookPros are becoming more realistic for intensive video work as time passes.

James


On Jan 16, 2012, at 12:36 PM, Carey Dissmore wrote:

> One thing I have not been able to find any data about is what level of performance reduction one could expect in apps like Premiere Pro, Resolve and others that constantly pump video to and from the GPU for buffering and processing. Just looking at the architecture, it appears 4 lanes is inadequate.
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> Of course with anything computer bus related: There is generally a larger discrepancy in theoretical bandwidth than real world application tests. Unfortunately, we don't have any of those as the gear to do them isn't yet available.
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> Maybe there would be a way to gang a couple of Thunderbolt busses together and get 8 lanes and that would get us over the hump (or close). But those busses would probably have to be completely dedicated to that task, not laden down with other devices vying for the bandwidth. All of this development would come at a very high cost though, when we have a working, cheap solution with pci express slots on desktop motherboards. Taking that external without bottlenecking it is the challenge. The portability premium strikes again.
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> Carey
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> On Jan 16, 2012, at 2:13 PM, Tsassoon wrote:
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>> Get a Mini :-) I'd very much like it if nVidia committed to building a Thunderbolt-attached CUDA engine.
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>> Tim Sassoon
>> SFD
>> Santa Monica, CA
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>> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Jan 16, 2012, at 11:45 AM, Satya G Meka <lists@rowbyte.com> wrote:
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>>> I hate those Glossy screens that come with iMac
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