Paul Murray Final Cut Pro X Berlin User Group has the first article in a comparison of Final Cut Pro X to Premiere Pro CC. He is an admitted Final Cut Pro X advocate, and this one is basially just going through the new features of each, though a follow up will do a comparison.
Nonlinear has a post on a post from Grant Petty the CEO of BlackMagic saying that the full version of DaVinci 10 will support the Dual AMD GPU’s of the new MacPros. And Premiere Pro already supports AMD Firepros, and hopefully will soon support the duals of the new MacPro.
I will still rather see Dual NVIDIA GPU support, as CUDA would likely be faster, but this could make the MacPro a viable alternative to the current MacPro without the expansion. Still want to see some speed tests though as I would like to see Premiere Pro rocking Dual Titans!
Phil Hodgetts has an article on running Final Cut Pro 10.1 on the new Mac Pro and what he was able to play back, 5 Red R2D 4K streams at different scales positions and rotations without rendering.
Pretty amazing, though now I want to see what happens when Adobe re-writes premiere for Dual Graphics Card support and what it can do, and even better if they carry that over to PC, so we can see this on dual NVIDIA CUDA cards. I would love to see what Premiere Pro could do using 2 GTX TITANS instead of AMD FirePro cards which are slower than gaming cards (much like NVIDIAs QUADRO line). The nice thing about the MacPro is it seems Apple is charging the gaming price for it’s FirePro cards, so you are paying for the Radeon editions and getting the FirePro.
I know that Final Cut pro X has gotten much better, but I am still not sold on it. I gave my 2 weeks at the beginning and the mess that it made of the timeline really makes it seem not viable for commercial or direct response, nor for anything that needs an audio mixer, as it will take so much longer to mix something that isn’t set specifically for an audio mixer.
Maybe I am biased by Final Cut Pro X 10.1, but all the improvements have not changed the timeline.
Mac Rumors has a roundup of reviews on the new MacPro.
Overall it sounds like people’s complaints were right. The ports on the back are a pain. And the Dual GPU is only good if a program is written for it, and the only one for that now is Final Cut Pro X. It seems currently Premiere Pro uses mostly the CPU, so it is pretty slow as compared to say with CUDA and a GTX 680 or my GTX 670. Be interesting to see what will happen when Adobe makes it compatible with the dual graphics cards though.
Still on the fence. Really want a GTX Titan, which would mean a Windows Machine for my next computer, but there is much software that would not move over and that would not be good. And even with it’s improvements I don’t see myself moving over to FCP X anytime soon.
Adobe has released an update to the December 2013 Premiere Pro CC release.
– Intermittent Buzzing could occur on audio playback where audio transitions were present
– Reveal in project sometimes did not work in imported sequence when clips were present in the project
– Premiere Pro could occasionally crash on playback of certain multi cam assets
– Using matte cleanup tools in Ultra keyer could sometimes cause the top half of the image to disappear when paused in Open CL mode
– Autosave could sometimes interrupt playback.
– The AMD Radeon R9 290 Series has been added to the OpenCL supported card list
– Inserting a merged clip with in/out points via menu or command would insert the entire merged clip, not the in/out range
– Playing with preroll could sometime crash Premiere Pro
– When editing in Anywhere mode, adding synthetics would sometimes show a 10 digit number under the progress panel’s Name column
Adobe has posted the upgrade info on Adobe SpeedGrace CC 7.2 Upgrade.
Direct Link acceleration is now GPU Accelerated, though only on NVIDIA on Mac, so the new MacPro’s will leave you hanging.