Thanks Apple...

[Jannard]

A special thanks goes to Apple for releasing the new Mac Pro. The dual i7 core Intel processor model just cut transcode times in half (roughly).

So if you open an r3d in RED Alert! and make a "look" using REDspace or REDlog and curves/saturation, etc. it saves the look to the .rsx file. Then open a bunch of these in RED Rushes and output to whatever format you want (say ProRes or Avid)... your dailies/edit files crunch out MUCH quicker.

Processing speed is RED's friend.

Jim

[REDGATE]

How is the performance improvement in handling Native R3D? I am really looking forward to getting the new i7 when it ships.

[Paul Hazlett]

Mr. Jannard, I think you just created a rush on Mac Pros

[Mohammed El Sharqawy]

how about the single cpu version.. does it work fine for the task or there is no use for it?

[Austin Glass]

Mmmmmm .... Apples. Now we all must go out and buy them.

It does sound like a sweet machine, though

[Zach Hilton]

Hey Jim, just curious what flavor of the i7 you are testing? My compadre Steve Freebairn recently got the stock 2.26 + 16 gigs of ram and the ATI graphics card and processing to 2k files is about 1.7x faster than before. I'm just curious if the extra money for the faster processors is worth it.

[Frank Weeks]

This sounds impressive. I hope they have made as many advances in Snowleopard and FCP3.

[David Collard]

How much ram or 6MB straight out of the box? I presume the new ram helps a little.

Raid configuration can make a big difference in rendering times.

[Tim Morten]

Seems like that should be: "Thanks Intel"... :).

Cheers,
Tim

[Ben Holmes]

Seems like that should be: "Thanks Intel"... :).
Tim

Not really - those 2.93 i7 processors cost so much per chip from Intel, so to get double the performance, you need to pay (nearly) double the money.

I'm sticking with my two 3.0ghz Mac Pros for now, until the price/power ratio rises...

FCS3 though - looking forward to that...