New Macbook Pro Retina, 2.7Ghz, 16gb ram impressions

[Bob Gundu]

Link to 2048:

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[Sergio Perez]

Link to 2048:

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Thanks Bob! :)

[Matt Ryan]

Link to 2048:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8259306...n/photostream/

Wow! Crazy the difference.

I have a question, how can the new Retina Macbook Pro playback a 4k mov real time but my 8 core mac pro can't do it without stuttering and skipping? I can playback fine in fcp and premiere or RCX but the 4k mov in quicktime always stutters.
My setup is:
Mac Pro 2x2.26 (8 core)
24gb ram
nvidia gtx 470
nvidia gt120
Redrocket
eSata card
all latest updates for software and OS running Lion.

[Sergio Perez]

Wow! Crazy the difference.

I have a question, how can the new Retina Macbook Pro playback a 4k mov real time but my 8 core mac pro can't do it without stuttering and skipping? I can playback fine in fcp and premiere or RCX but the 4k mov in quicktime always stutters.
My setup is:
Mac Pro 2x2.26 (8 core)
24gb ram
nvidia gtx 470
nvidia gt120
Redrocket
eSata card
all latest updates for software and OS running Lion.

It is playing back fine here. Its a 4096 x 2160. It "jumps" when I press play (first frames) but stays constant throughout the video. I need to install FCPX here to see how this performs in a "Native" 4K prores editing environment. Haven't tried Premiere yet. This test was in QT playback. Maybe its the internal ssd's performance that allows faster read of the file? This is Prores 444 4K...

[Matt Ryan]

It is playing back fine here. Its a 4096 x 2160. It "jumps" when I press play (first frames) but stays constant throughout the video. I need to install FCPX here to see how this performs in a "Native" 4K prores editing environment. Haven't tried Premiere yet. This test was in QT playback.

Yeah sorry I was referring to Quicktime Playback.

[Sergio Perez]

More info:

Final Cut pro X its still the same software as before with many things i don't like, but it cuts 4K Prores 444 natively, realtime. Threw some random effects like bleach bypass and runs like a champ. Very, very impressive. And it takes advantage of this display... Just gorgeous. Adobe, please do the same!

[Jude Byard]

Sweet

[Frederick Giles]

FCP X is interesting, just for fun I tried a 9K timeline 4 x 4.5K prores and it works.

[Mathieu Ghekiere]

HI Frederick,

did you achieve the 9k resolution with the Compound Clip - Open in Timeline , etc. work-around?
Because I know FCP X doesn't have custom resolutions, but there is a work-around for it (that is detailed on Creative Cow, and I used it successfully to have a 11K timeline once), and just wondered if you used the same method or there was something else?

So you got 4x 4.5k Prores playing back? Nuts.

[Frederick Giles]

I created the custom frame size through the motion export and then compound clip method. Yes playback works in FCP X. Exported 10 sec prores clip is 2.2 gb. Doesn't playback so well in quicktime though.