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Now, if only Apple can get Final Cut Pro X to do something radical like scroll the timeline during playback, or let me view audio and video palettes at the same time, or have a feature from the 80s called “Custom Guides” that let you put “guides” on the viewer so you can “line things up”. I cannot wait until next year’s NAB – this will be a real game changer for the industry! But if you do there is already an adapter for that. No FireWire but who is really using FW now. Thank you Apple for putting 6 Thunderbolt ports on this machine! For all you who wanted the latest connectivity – we got it now! USB 3.0 (4x), TB 2.0 (6x), GigE (2x), HDMI 1.5. ![]() How many have roaring PowerMac/MacPro towers in their studios? All those fans get revving – man is it loud! Unless you can work well in a refrigerated room, most of us have had this issue. The quietness of the fan will have be tested in person – but Apple claims they fixed that issue too. Apple revolutionary “Thermal Core” and innovative fan design fixes this problem. ![]() And many owners found their machine burning up on their desk. Remember the Cube? Even Lee Clow (TBWA/Chiat/Day), God bless him, promoted the design – and it was a wonderful design – but plagued with poor air-cooling issues. They removed the flaws of the compact design. #CUDA DRIVER FOR RESOLVE ON MAC WINDOWS#They really took the leap and built one brilliant machine! If any system could be the Windows Workstation killer – this is it! Hopefully this will put to rest all the fears of the cynics that believed that Apple does not care about Professionals! I added the bold! You think Adobe might know a little about OpenCL these days? Indeed, our very own David McGavran will be talking about our OpenCL improvements at WWDC on Thursday. #CUDA DRIVER FOR RESOLVE ON MAC MAC#This means that – you guessed it – Premiere Pro will utilize the dual-GPUs in the new Mac Pro when exporting to an output file. UPDATE: Adobe’s Al Mooney weighed in on his Adobe blog:įinally, please note that Premiere Pro CC has support for multiple GPU configurations on export (only one is used during playback) so having more than one GPU will speed up your output times. It appears there is not only improved OpenCL in the OS, but improved support for it on NVIDIA hardware as well. It seems to me that the concerns over a lack of direct support for a proprietary hardware call, are misguided. And the Foundry bringing their 3D painting app to OS X. So, no Creative Cloud problems: Resolve’s issues, resolved. I’m guessing that “whole new OpenCL” might also be a clue to the ease of future integration. Those GPUs are very powerful and have lots of GPU memory so this is the Mac we have been waiting for! We have lots of Thunderbolt products too so video in and out is taken care of. I am not sure what I can say as I am only going off what Apple has talked about publicly here in the keynote for what I can say right now, however there is a whole new OpenCL and DaVinci Resolve 10 has had a lot of performance work done to integrate it and its really really fast. Its amazing and those GPUs are incredible powerful. We have been testing with DaVinci Resolve 10 builds and this screams. Others worried that Blackmagic Design’s Resolve required CUDA and yet, Grant Petty, Blackmagic’s CEO said on their blog: More relevant and important is that the specific AMD GPU  -that’s doubled up in the new MacPro  – is a powerhouse performer for Adobe Creative Cloud apps (specifically Premiere Pro), outperforming the current best NVIDIA card. Similarly, NVIDIA have been adding more OpenCL support to their hardware, and Adobe have been adding OpenCL support to the Mercury Engine. Since then OpenCL has matured and does for Final Cut Pro X, what CUDA does for Adobe’s Mercury Engine. At the time they were developing the Mercury Engine, OpenCL was way too immature to use a foundation. It is this layer of direct call that Adobe leveraged so well with Premiere Pro CS5 and the Mercury Engine. But the lack of NVIDA “cards” and therefore CUDA support, has alarmed many, quite needlessly.ĬUDA is a language NVIDIA developed to allow app developers to directly call the card’s hardware layer. ![]() Well, the tubular design was a surprise, but the lack of internal drive space, expansion slots were no surprise. It is however exactly the computer I thought Apple would produce for a new MacPro. The preview of the new MacPro has, not surprisingly, polarized “the Internet”. ![]()
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