Anyone running Premiere CC 14 on a new iMac?

Hey all,

About to set up our editing bays for a new show, thinking of buying one new (trashcan) Mac Pro and 2x 27" retina iMacs with Thunderbolt RAIDs all around. The iMacs will be strictly for the editors (Canon MXF footage) and the Mac Pro will be the finishing/After Effects station.

Anyone using a new retina iMac (not 5k) with PPCC14 who can relate their experience? I've heard good things but just want to be aware of any hiccups or bottlenecks in regards to filters, renders, exports etc. I've toyed with the idea of just buying a couple older towers that have more cores and bigger GPUs, based on these Geekbench benchmarks. But then I would be missing out on Thunderbolt and the latest processors...

TIA,

JVK

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SCQT! Self-contained QuickTime ? pass it on!

We have a trashcan Mac running PPCC (not 14) and it was problematic until we upgraded to the latest Mavericks, because there was an issue with Mavericks causing a memory leak on the graphics card.

Also, the trashcan is too small to accommodate the right cards for raytrace on AE, so if you plan to use that be aware that the iMacs might work better for now.

Thanks, Jude. By "cards" are you referring to the Nvidia GPUs in the iMacs vs the AMD Fires in the MPro?


JVK

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SCQT! Self-contained QuickTime ? pass it on!

Yes - raytrace in AE only runs on nvidia cards, which are not available for the new MacPro because it's too small.

Here's some info about the Ray-Traced renderer. It might be that you don't need it anyway, but good to know before you drop $10k plus on a finishing machine if you do.

[provideocoalition.com]

We had a problem with it because our outsourced graphics department on a show built everything with raytrace on their custom-built animation PCs, so we couldn't add or remove anything from the templates on the new MacPro.