Mac Pro: How will this be for 1080p premiere and after effects cs5 work?

That's more then enough for 1080p work. My 1st generation 2006 MacPro that I recently sold still ate up 1080p like a champ. In my experience, the only thing that gets longer with older MacPro's compared to new is the render speeds. Realtime performance unless you're doing something super intensive will be very similar. All of the MacPro machines with a decent amount of RAM and a good GPU will handle 1080p well. You'll be in good shape...
 
thanks Kyle. Just what I was hoping. Don't mind leaving exports over night. its nice to be able to blast a few layers of colour correction and not have to put up with as much nasty stuttering while reviewing the results prior to export.
 
richg101 said:
thanks Kyle. Just what I was hoping. Don't mind leaving exports over night. its nice to be able to blast a few layers of colour correction and not have to put up with as much nasty stuttering while reviewing the results prior to export.
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Well of course that depends on lots of factors...but you should be just fine. Have some good FW800 drives, enough RAM, and don't expect to view it in full-rez in your viewer window all the time and you'll be fine. You should be able to play things back just fine.
 
Not sure what graphics cards are available for that box.

CS6 can use both OpenCL and CUDA cores for GPU acceleration. CUDA is Nvidia only. Some form of GPU acceleration is almost a must for CS6.

Even the most basic card will speed up Mercury Acceleration functions - rendering effects, pre-export rendering, etc - by a factor of 10x - or 1/10 the time over software only. So it is defintely worth it to have a GPU that can be enabled.


This shows a chart of acceleration for specific video cards on a test software suite of mixed functions:

http://ppbm5.com/MPE Charts.php



This is mostly PC based, but you can do the mapping to Mac-approved video adapters. Most can be enabled through a hack:

http://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm



It looks like it has 8 RAM slots. 2x8 GB = 16GB max. You might want more than 12GB at some point. If so, it is best to use newer 4GB or teh newer 8GB chips rather than 2GB, as the 2GB will eventually be "throw away" if you want to max out the RAM beyond 16GB, which is a real possibility.

I have a PC with an i7-920 and 27GB of RAM, which is a decent amount for that 4 core machine.

This site has a ton of benchmarking info. Mostly on PC's, but a lot of teh features should map. On memory he is saying 12 GB is good, but 24Gb can be great:

http://ppbm5.com/Background.html


They are putting together a more complex set of benchmarks for CS6.

You might also look at RAID 0 for scratch disks. The Seagate Barracuda 2TB, with 1TB platters, rated second to the Western Digital Velociraptors on speed at Tom's Benchmark. (I forget about the 1TB and 3TB.) I just bought 2 for a RAID 0 test. I can't speak to reliability, I've mostly used WD in the past.

Good luck!

Michael
 
thanks for the feedback guys. the guy wants 800gbp for it, with monitor and hdmi capture card. slightly less without hdmi capture card. I have a nice dell monitor (their current flagship model) which I may well keep and use instead of the non apple one he is offering with the deal.

Will 800gbp on a new/refurbed PC be a more powerful machine? Im a PC man in my own workspace, but flip to mac as and when I am in front of them so am not worried about a complete swap to mac.
 
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