Communigate Pro AE-List@media-motion.tv Message 54838

Note about iMacs – a few of my editor friends that moved to maxed out iMac’s instead of upgrading Mac Pro have run into consistent issue with lag/latency with audio in Premiere and other apps.

Personally, for AE only, it might be an okay box but for critical real-time, I don’t think it’s a great machine.

One of them has chosen to move to PC due the MacPro’s own price/performance/form factor issues.

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

From: After Effects Mail List [mailto:AE-List@media-motion.tv]
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 2:56 PM
To: After Effects Mail List
Subject: Re: [AE] What's the state of Ae on new MacPros?

an updated iMac with a 6 core and higher ram limit would be great. i dont see any difference in performance between the 680 and the 780 on the imac, just less erros with the extra 2GB of VRAM.

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Steve Oakley <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

my 2008 mac tower, K5000, SSD system drive, 3X3TB raid eats thru 1080 editing all day long with good responsiveness. I’m talking 8-10 layers in PP with 1-2 video layers where one is often some h.264 format, 1 ProRes, maybe one ProRes 4444 + alpha, static graphics, lumetri from speed grade. where this system probably suffers is decoding the h.264 formats where 2-3 layers will get boggish a bit.

OTH I am finishing a shot in 4K GH4 edited in 1080 on my imac i7 and its gone well. since its a 2.93gh / much faster ram bus machine it decodes h.264 a lot more smoothly than the 2008 machine.

so a used 5.1 tower should be a consideration if you want the PCIe slots, and a loaded 27” iMac with nV GPU could be a really nice compact machine. I’m somewhat waiting for an update iMac with 6core i7.

S

On Aug 13, 2014, at 1:30 PM, Tony Romain <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

This is exactly what I've been hearing as well. Unless the software is written from the ground up to take advantage of the updated hardware specs/architecture on the new mac pros, the speed boost is negligible.. Especially for the price.

Would def just spend your money upgrading video cards, ram, DEFINITELY replace your system drive with an SSD as well as get an additional SSD for use as a AE disk cache… they are super cheap these days

Can't stress enough how awesome the switch to an SSD system drive was…

danny princz

vimeo.com/rendernyc