Pre-WWDC 2013 Mac Pro Rumor Roundup

Posted by Eric Hansen - June 3, 2013 - Apple, SANs and Post Production, Musings, News, Production, Rants

There’s been surprisingly few detailed rumors about a new Mac Pro compared to Apple’s other products. Over the past few years there’s been speculation about a Mac Mini Pro or xMac, which is basically a beefy Mac Mini with a user-replaceable GPU and not much else. I would post a link, but there’s as many descriptions […]

Glue Tools PhantomCine GPU Speed Tests

Posted by Eric Hansen - January 21, 2013 - Apple, SANs and Post Production, Featured, Reviews / Tests

The new version of Glue Tools PhantomCine Toolkit, in this case, 3.1.2693, has Open CL GPU acceleration. Since converting Phantom Cine files to ProRes is a daily occurrence at Brain Farm, I thought I would do some speed tests. I got some interesting results. Source Clip: Phantom Flex, 2560×1440, 49 seconds Test System: Mac Pro 4.1, 8×2.23GHz, […]

Premiere Pro GPU Cards: GTX285, Quadro 4000 and Quadro FX 4800 Are Not Your Only Options

Posted by Eric Hansen - January 20, 2013 - Apple, SANs and Post Production, Color Grading

Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 includes a new technology called Mercury Playback Engine. The engine can use GPU processing on nVidia cards using CUDA architecture to accelerate renders. When perusing the list for compatible cards for Mac Pros, there’s only 3 cards listed. These cards are now a few years old, overpriced and are nowhere near as powerful as nVidia’s […]

nVidia GPU Buyers – Don’t Toss Your OLD Graphics Cards!

Posted by Eric Hansen - December 17, 2012 - Apple, SANs and Post Production

I’ve installed or recommended nVidia GPU cards for clients and friends for quite awhile now. Personally, I’m rocking a GTX570 in my Mac Pro for Premiere Pro and Resolve. I also have a GT120 installed as the second card for when I use Resolve. Most of the time my monitors are connected to the GTX570. […]

Final Cut Pro 7, Mac OS X 10.7.5 and nVidia GT120 Aren’t Playing Nice

Posted by Eric Hansen - December 7, 2012 - Apple, SANs and Post Production, Tutorials

I’ve noticed this now on enough systems to call this a bug, and since it involves 2 out of date pieces of software and one out of date graphics card, it’s unlikely that Apple will address it. Problem: Skipping playback in the Canvas and/or Viewer windows in Final Cut Pro 7 on Mac Pros with […]