- #MAC FOR EDITING 4K MP4#
- #MAC FOR EDITING 4K FULL#
- #MAC FOR EDITING 4K PRO#
- #MAC FOR EDITING 4K WINDOWS 7#
- #MAC FOR EDITING 4K PROFESSIONAL#
More cores can definitely speed the process.
#MAC FOR EDITING 4K FULL#
The Mac is running full bore during ingest. Time to ingest 76 seconds of video (seconds)įigure 2. Ingest and conversion to Cineform and H.264.
#MAC FOR EDITING 4K PRO#
If you extrapolate the difference to 30 minutes of ingest, you’ll be waiting almost 50 minutes longer on the Mac Pro than on the HP Z840. Table 1 shows the results, where the HP Z840 finished the task in 211 seconds (3:31) and the Mac Pro in 333 seconds (5:33), about 58% longer to wait to begin editing.
#MAC FOR EDITING 4K MP4#
In this test, 74 seconds of RED 4K footage was ingested and converted to Cineform for editing, and to MP4 for internal distribution and viewing (Figure 1). Ingest in Adobe Prelude CC Let’s start with ingest via Adobe Prelude, which sets a useful tone for the technical analysis to follow. With each project, the audio and video previews were sent to a cache folder on the other drive for storage.īoth computers ran the latest releases of the Adobe® Creative Cloud™, which included the 2015.3 release of Adobe Premiere® Pro CC (10.3.0, 202 build), the 2015.3 release of the Adobe Media Encoder® (10.3.0.185 build), the 2015.4 release of Adobe Prelude™ CC (5.0.0, 184 Build), and the 2015.1 release (Build 9.1x89) of Adobe SpeedGrade™ CC.įigure 1. The system drive was a 1 TB SATA SSD drive, with two 1 TB HP Z Turbo Drive Quad Pro 1 TB PCIe drives from which all tests were performed. The graphics card was a single NVIDIA Quadro M6000 with 12 GB of video memory connected to an HP LP3065 display as the primary monitor, and the HP Z32x Dreamcolor for full resolution preview.
#MAC FOR EDITING 4K WINDOWS 7#
The Z840 tested came with two 2.6 GHz E5-2690 v3 CPUs, each with 12 cores, 24 with hyperthreading enabled, running Windows 7 with 128 GB of RAM. This is why I selected a mid-range HP Z840 Workstation for testing, keeping in mind that it is very flexible in terms of getting even more performance out of it.
Secondly, such a configuration would be far beyond the financial reach of most studios and video professionals. First, it would have either 44 CPU cores (88 with hyperthreading) or three NVIDIA® Quadro® M6000 GPUs, along with 2 TB of RAM and up to 22 TB of storage. Let’s start by saying that a fully-loaded HP Z840 would not have been realistic scenario for a couple of reasons. With the final project, I stored the project on the Transcend drive, and used the Mac’s internal drive for caching. With some projects, I supplemented this with a 1 TB Transcend StoreJet 500 SSD drive connected via Thunderbolt™ for caching the audio and video preview files. The Mac Pro came with 500 GB internal SSD drive from which I performed most testing. The primary monitor was an Apple 24" LED Cinema display as with the HP Z840, was pared with a full resolution HP Z32x DreamColor 4K monitor via HDMI. As you’ll see below, hyperthreading was enabled, and the system accessed as many as 24 cores depending upon the operation. The Mac in this benchmark was a fully loaded 2.7 GHz 12-Core Intel® Xeon® E5 with 64 GB of 1866 DDR3 running OS X 10.11.3 with two AMD FirePro™ D700 graphic cards each with 6144 GB or video RAM. When the project is on the line, which workstation completes the job the fastest, and what is the lifetime value of a super-computer? After describing the two systems, I will test five discrete areas involved in most projects ingest, preview, rendering for preview, color grading, and output. Missing a deadline can cost thousands of dollars or more, and limiting creativity can even cost you the next project.This is the spirit taken in this white paper where the fastest Mac Pro available is compared to a mid-range HP Z840 Workstation. In these scenarios, hardware performance has become paramount and price has become much more a feature of overall ROI. To compound things, production schedules have not changed and the expectations placed on studios are greater than ever. Frame rates have often doubled and even quadrupled in some segments such as action sports, not to mention the demands for new VR content. The industry has quickly moved from HD to UHD or 4K, and even higher in some cases.
#MAC FOR EDITING 4K PROFESSIONAL#
The hardware requirements for the film and professional video industries are on a sharp incline due to the dramatic increase of resolutions and frame rates.
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