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| A friend of mine who runs a busy production company is looking at replaced his maxed out iMac with the new MacPro as he's run into performance issue with his iMac. AE runs okay but he's got pretty bad audio latency issues in Premiere Pro CC. He's not 100% sure it's totally the iMac's fault - could be related to audio interface. He's a total Mac only user and well-heeled (a Canon C300 shop) but found the price daunting and did not pull the trigger. But the simple fact is the iMac is not designed to be pushed hard on daily basis - but price is a huge factor here. For heavy AE users, the new MacPro is pretty much for diehard Mac only users that need the GPU power and better cooling, faster bus and storage interface. I push AE very hard at 4K and 6K resolution and RAM per thread combined with SSD caching is the key to performance and stability. You need 4 to 6GB per thread, so extra core models are wasted even with 64 GB of RAM (which I have and only render with 6 cores). The extra cores would only help for 2K renders or 3D work. Premiere will benefit some although I'm curious to see detailed benchmarks. The storage system is going to cost a bundle as well as make a wire maze defeating the sexy design pretty quickly if you need terabytes of local storage. Overall, it's a really pricy machine aimed at diehard Mac only users who won't consider moving off the platform and willing to burn money - not only on this purchase, but on the fact the upgrades are very limited and pricey. stephen van vuuren 336.202.4777 http://www.insaturnsrings.com/ http://www.sv2dcp.com/ http://www.sv2studios.com/ A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. -Stanley Kubrick -----Original Message----- From: After Effects Mail List [mailto:AE-List@media-motion.tv] On Behalf Of Robert Houghton Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 1:13 PM To: After Effects Mail List Subject: [AE] (OT) New Mac Pro - Who's getting it? Hi all, I'm planning on doing an upgrade next year and I'm wondering if I should even think of getting a Mac Pro. I do the usual AE and 3D stuff most folks do here and when you put up the performance levels at least on a macintosh basis, a maxed out iMac seems to perform pretty favorably compared to CUBEtwo the sequel (I kinda miss that old clear plastic box) as well as including a really nice retina monitor. Is anyone planning on getting a pro and why do you want that over something else? -Rob +---End of message---+ To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> |
