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Posted by Luis Ortega on 04/22/07 09:10
Thanks, Spex,
I have made no decision yet and in any case I am waiting until August right
before we start school again to make my purchase, whatever that turns out to
be.
My two choices are:
1. Upgrade my PC from my current P4 setup to a Core 2 Quad system (or Core 2
Duo if the software can't exploit the quad performance) with new
motherboard, 4 gig ram and 512 mb video card, and get the Adobe Video
Production CS3 Master collection bundle which includes almost all that I use
now but in a CS3 version.
2. Buy a Mac Pro desktop with dual 2.66 ghz Zeon processors, 4 gig ram, 512
video card option and FCP Studio 2, plus also install Win XP and my current
production software and upgrade those to Mac versions as I can afford it. I
would eventually like to have my main production software (Photoshop, After
Effects Pro, Flash, Premiere Pro) in Mac versions.
Obviously, option 2 is more expensive, but the goal of my research in the
next few months is to determine if it's worth it in term of stability and
performance, and also feature set comparisons once Premiere Pro CS3
information is available. I took a short course in FCP 5 studio so I am
familiar now with its main features and am very impressed. It seems to have
all of the features that I really like in Premiere Pro plus Avid and a few
more, and the studio bundle software is also very impressive.
I would appreciate anyone's advice on this, and thanks to all for their time
and help.
"Spex" <No.spam@ta.com> wrote in message
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> Luis Ortega wrote:
>> Are the new and upcoming Adobe CS3 product suites that include Premiere
>> Pro, After Effects, Flash, Photoshop Extended, etc., optimized to get
>> performance benefits from the Intel quad core cpus?
>> If not, would the core 2 duo processors be a better buy for performance
>> with these programs?
>> Thanks for any advice.
> FCP6 is optimised for the 8 core Mac Pro despite what you were told in the
> other thread. More cores=more realtime streams and scales almost linearly
> with No. of cores. Compressor 3 is completely multi-threaded and again is
> optimised for multi core Macs and is 2.5-3x (using same hardware) faster
> than Compressor 2.
>
> The new CS3 packages are not scheduled for release until September is the
> last I heard.
>
> WRT performance you can download a public beta of Premiere CS3 to check
> for yourself. FCS2 is not released until the end of May so direct
> comparison will not be able to be made until then but I personally am not
> expecting any difference between FCP and Premiere based on what I've been
> told from someone who attended NAB.
>
> My experience with Intel Macs and FCS1, Shake and a whole host of
> universal binary applications is in marked contrast to Smarty's but then I
> am only a freelance compositor working in broadcast and film so what do I
> know??
>
> S
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