HVX200 / Final Cut with 8-core, and its future...

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Drcoffee

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I'm looking to get a:


8-Core Mac Pro
4Gig Ram
Ati x1900


I use a HVX200, and I'm pretty sure this Mac Pro will eat through 720p multi layered keys and 1080i footage, with Final Cut.


I'm not up to speed the the technical details, and want to find out if its semi future proofed...


1) Will this set up support 10-bit, 4:4:4 and 2k footage, and possibly in real-time?


2) How much of a timeline render speed / workflow increase should I see over a 4-Core Mac Pro? (with the 8-Core)


3) What's the latest on whether 'Final Cut Studio 2' & Leopard should wake the hibernating bear of the 8-Core's.


Few! I've been saving for months, and have a music video shot on greenscreen, I haven't even watched the rushes of yet, due to not having a computer!


Any advice would be greatly appreciated
Regards
Jon
 
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There have been some tests done... trying to find... but the 8core is actually slower. SOmething about an old logic board...

Like the first G4s

I'll find it.

CaptM
 
I thought it was because of the RAM bottleneck. Your 8 cores are screaming fast, at this point faster than the RAM. Or something like that.
 
I think what you want is the fastest graphic cards you can afford and the fastest drives you can get. However, the 8 core really shine for 3d apps....
 
I am always very carefull about reading benchmarks. However having more processors is really advantageaous for software that require long rendering tasks. For instance, 3d sotware that supports an 8 core machine, such as Cinema 4d will benefit a great deal, by assigning each core an image render, sort of having a rendering farm in one box. However as far as working or previewing your work in C4D, 8 core is pretty useless, the graphic card and the amount of ram will be more important...
 
Indeed... AND with Studio2 built to use all 8 cores... they must (MUST) have tested it on those existing 8-core machines.

CaptM
 
1) Will this set up support 10-bit, 4:4:4 and 2k footage, and possibly in real-time?
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That will solely depend on you getting fast enough storage.


I doubt the memory bandwidth bottle neck problem will be fixed until a new mobo appears that has a wider pipe between the RAM and the CPU. So memory intensive tasks (lots of data going between the RAM and the CPU) won't see much, if any, of an improvement w/the current 8-cores, but proc intensive tasks will. And multitasking looks to be faster on the 8-cores as well. Lets say you are working in FCP, rendering something in AE, and encoding some footage in compressor. The 8-core will be much faster than the 4-core. And, at least for me, I typically have more than one thing going on at a time and if I can do more CPU heavy tasks at the same time w/o it slowing to a crawl that's pretty sweet and quite possibly worth the $1500 price difference.


-A
 
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