Caleb Rasak Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Hey guys! I have some questions regarding some of our upgrades we plan to make very soon. The production house is looking into pre-ordering the black magic production camera which will be our first 4K ready camera and were excited about it. But my questions are really on the post side of things. Right now we are running on 2 older mac pros and they arent getting the job done like we would like them too. We just recently switched to Media Composer as our NLE and have started to incorporate Davinci Resolve 10. We started shooting in raw for some of our productions and need computers to handle this. We are looking at the new mac pros but seem a little lost in what we should get with the options on these computers. Im going to be honest I am not a computer geek I am simply the camera man and I am looking for answers for our post side of things. So some of my questions are. - Whats the advantages of a 12 core system? - Can Avid and Resolve take advantage of all cores? - Is it smarter to get less cores and focus more on a GPU upgrade? Pretend like money isnt an issue but you dont want to spend money on something you wont benefit from in this situation. And please dont make this a PC over Mac battle and vice versa. We are a mac house and are staying that way and hackintosh is out of the question. Thank You Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chauffeurdevan Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Hey guys! I have some questions regarding some of our upgrades we plan to make very soon. The production house is looking into pre-ordering the black magic production camera which will be our first 4K ready camera and were excited about it. But my questions are really on the post side of things. Right now we are running on 2 older mac pros and they arent getting the job done like we would like them too. We just recently switched to Media Composer as our NLE and have started to incorporate Davinci Resolve 10. We started shooting in raw for some of our productions and need computers to handle this. We are looking at the new mac pros but seem a little lost in what we should get with the options on these computers. Im going to be honest I am not a computer geek I am simply the camera man and I am looking for answers for our post side of things. So some of my questions are. - Whats the advantages of a 12 core system? - Can Avid and Resolve take advantage of all cores? - Is it smarter to get less cores and focus more on a GPU upgrade? Pretend like money isnt an issue but you dont want to spend money on something you wont benefit from in this situation. And please dont make this a PC over Mac battle and vice versa. We are a mac house and are staying that way and hackintosh is out of the question. Thank You First, there is currently no 12 cores of the newest Mac. Depending on the configuration of your old Mac Pro (probably dual x5650 or better), the new one will not be much faster... Second, are you sure Avid MC is able to do 4K ? Third, the BM 4k, is far from being in your hand.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artorius Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 First, yes, the new Mac Pro will be able to support 12 cores. Its one of the biggest selling points of the new Mac Pro releasing this month. http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/ Second, not sure about Avid. Third, chaufferdevan is completely right. There hasn't been a peep from Blackmagic in recent times about the new BMCC4k. Hopefully this is Blackmagic learning their lesson and they're going to surprise everyone with the shipment and availability of their next camera. However, I'm not holding my breath. Hopefully it arrives sooner than later though! Good luck with your upgrade! I too am not completely computer savvy, so I hope that someone more knowledgeable than I stops by this thread soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caleb Rasak Posted December 5, 2013 Author Share Posted December 5, 2013 Thank you guys. Were in no hurry to get the BMC 4K, sure if it fell under our company xmas tree I wouldn't complain but we can be patient. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HurtinMinorKey Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 The extra cores will help with encoding, but for editing in real time you need to focus on GPU performance and read speeds from your storage. You really only need more cores (or dual processors) if you are going to do 3D animation or something like that. Get the 6 core system, get at least a 4GB GPU, and make sure you have some sort of thunderbolt storage array. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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