Posted by <ahall on 04/29/07 15:02

>>>>> Luis Ortega writes:

Luis> Thanks, Spex,
Luis> I have made no decision yet and in any case I am waiting until August right
Luis> before we start school again to make my purchase, whatever that turns out to
Luis> be.
Luis> My two choices are:

Luis> 1. Upgrade my PC from my current P4 setup to a Core 2 Quad system (or Core 2
Luis> Duo if the software can't exploit the quad performance) with new
Luis> motherboard, 4 gig ram and 512 mb video card, and get the Adobe Video
Luis> Production CS3 Master collection bundle which includes almost all that I use
Luis> now but in a CS3 version.

Luis> 2. Buy a Mac Pro desktop with dual 2.66 ghz Zeon processors, 4 gig ram, 512
Luis> video card option and FCP Studio 2, plus also install Win XP and my current
Luis> production software and upgrade those to Mac versions as I can afford it. I
Luis> would eventually like to have my main production software (Photoshop, After
Luis> Effects Pro, Flash, Premiere Pro) in Mac versions.

Adobe does not make a mac version of Premiere.

Luis> Obviously, option 2 is more expensive, but the goal of my research in the
Luis> next few months is to determine if it's worth it in term of stability and
Luis> performance, and also feature set comparisons once Premiere Pro CS3
Luis> information is available. I took a short course in FCP 5 studio so I am
Luis> familiar now with its main features and am very impressed. It seems to have
Luis> all of the features that I really like in Premiere Pro plus Avid and a few
Luis> more, and the studio bundle software is also very impressive.

Luis> I would appreciate anyone's advice on this, and thanks to all for their time
Luis> and help.



Luis> "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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