{"id":7406,"date":"2018-04-05T17:57:50","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T17:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=7406"},"modified":"2018-04-05T17:57:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T17:57:50","slug":"linked-apples-2019-mac-pro-will-be-shaped-by-workflows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2018\/04\/05\/linked-apples-2019-mac-pro-will-be-shaped-by-workflows\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: “Apple\u2019s 2019 Mac Pro will be shaped by workflows”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple\u2019s 2019 Mac Pro will be shaped by workflows | TechCrunch<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThese aren\u2019t necessarily always fundamental performance issues,\u201d notes Ternus. \u201cThese aren\u2019t things that you\u2019d find in a benchmark or an automated test flow. You know we have examples where we find something like it\u2019s\u2026a window that a 3D animator uses frequently to make some fine fine tweaks. The windows are not super graphically intensive in terms of processing and stewing but we have found an issue where that window was taking like 6 to 10 seconds to open and they\u2019re doing that 100 times a day, right? Like \u2018I can\u2019t work on a machine like this, It\u2019s too slow\u2019 so we dig in and we figure out what it was.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I have a late 2015 iMac with a quad core i7 and 4Ghz clock speed, a Radeon 395x with I think 4GB of VRAM and 32GB of DDR3 memory. I have 750 gigabytes of 4K video living on the iMac locally from my trip last week and I gave the iMac 2 full days to completely transcode the footage into a usable format on the latest version of Final Cut Pro. I should repeat that. It took 48 hours to transcode my videos to a usable format that I could edit.<\/p>\n

Editing this footage is a huge patience exercise. A simple blade cut a 1 minute clip and the entire wave form of the audio in the visible time line takes 5 seconds to visualize again and playback won\u2019t resume or drop 20 of 29 frames a second until the waveform visualizes again. I\u2019ve walked away from my iMac on 5 different occasions with anger and returned only to visit Dell.com to see what they are charging for computers these days. My 18 month old $3,100 Macintosh can\u2019t edit footage off a GoPro. I have little faith that a $7500 iMac Pro would fare any better. There are no filters, color, audio gradients or such applied. This is linear single shot GoPro that I\u2019m simply trimming \/ blade cutting with some flat text over it. I\u2019m not making Spiderman.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It is truly despicable and I HOPE this is something they\u2019re addressing because as it sits, my disk, RAM, GPU and CPUs on the iMac aren\u2019t running at full speed. They\u2019re not being fully utilized by a 1st party piece of Software on HEVC which Apple completely supports in FCP. I really hope this improves.\u00a0<\/p>\n