On top of a 20" iMac and Dual 1.8GHz PowerMac, Apple also released G5 optimized versions of Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro and Shake:
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G5 Optimized Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, and Shake
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This is finally gonna get me off my butt and get a G5. I was skeptical about raw processor boosts with no good software tro take advantage of 64 bit. This is cool...
finally....I'm thinking of starting my own edit suite this summer and with this news and the prospect that the G5's will be at 3ghz by the fall I'm most likely going to go with Final Cut. With the money I save not buying an Avid Adrenaline I should be able to get some X Serve Raid and maybe Shake. Apple has the chance here to really make a move on the Pro side (not just with people cutting offline with DV). This also gives me hope that I could buy a used G5 next year and add a second suite. Good move apple.
gwuMACaddict
macrumors 68040
Ge4-ce
macrumors regular
Let me guess..
Next:
Dual 1.8 (or single 1.8)
Dual 2.0
Dual 2.5 in January
Dual 2.0
Dual 2.5
Dual 3.0 in september
You would be crazy to buy a 1.6 Ghz now.. At least go with the dual 1.8 wich is good price/performance!
I will go with the Dual 2.5 in January.. I simply cannot wait until september! 😀 (and don't want a first generation dual 2.0)
Next:
Dual 1.8 (or single 1.8)
Dual 2.0
Dual 2.5 in January
Dual 2.0
Dual 2.5
Dual 3.0 in september
You would be crazy to buy a 1.6 Ghz now.. At least go with the dual 1.8 wich is good price/performance!
I will go with the Dual 2.5 in January.. I simply cannot wait until september! 😀 (and don't want a first generation dual 2.0)
does shake=renderman?
im getting confused. is shalke the same as renderman? it just seems they are both used on the same films e.g lotr and ice age as well as many more.
now that renderman ois on the mac, why is apple making it so hard for pixar to compete?
im getting confused. is shalke the same as renderman? it just seems they are both used on the same films e.g lotr and ice age as well as many more.
now that renderman ois on the mac, why is apple making it so hard for pixar to compete?
SiliconAddict
macrumors 603
Re: G5 Optimized Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, and Shake
Hence the reason I will be waiting for a G5 to show up in a PowerBook.
G5 optimized
You are going to see that moniker more frequently now that the G5 is THE CPU of choice.
Hence the reason I will be waiting for a G5 to show up in a PowerBook.
G5 optimized
You are going to see that moniker more frequently now that the G5 is THE CPU of choice.
Is it just me?
Is it just me, but look at that monitor on the Pro software page, it doesn't look like any of the current Apple cinema displays to me.
Edit: Now that I am looking at it more closely it is a cimema display. I need some cofee...
Is it just me, but look at that monitor on the Pro software page, it doesn't look like any of the current Apple cinema displays to me.
Edit: Now that I am looking at it more closely it is a cimema display. I need some cofee...
Re: does shake=renderman?
shake and renderman are two TOTALLY different animals for absolutely different things. One is for movie editing and another for 3D rendering.
shake and renderman are two TOTALLY different animals for absolutely different things. One is for movie editing and another for 3D rendering.
Does anyone else think the LCD screen on the Pro Tools page looks 'different'?
...Maybe I'm just too eager for new displays 🙁
...Maybe I'm just too eager for new displays 🙁
P-Worm
macrumors 68020
Re: Re: does shake=renderman?
Not editing my friend, Shake is a compositing application. It works like this:
In a program like Maya, a person would create a 3D character and animate it.
Then Renderman is used to change the chunky low texture character into a smooth good looking character.
Then it is passed to Shake to composite (or overlay) the character into a scene.
So Gollum was modelled in Mirai and animated in Maya. Then it was passed to Renderman to look more like a person than a 3d character then finally to Shake to put it in the scene.
Make sense?
P-Worm
Not editing my friend, Shake is a compositing application. It works like this:
In a program like Maya, a person would create a 3D character and animate it.
Then Renderman is used to change the chunky low texture character into a smooth good looking character.
Then it is passed to Shake to composite (or overlay) the character into a scene.
So Gollum was modelled in Mirai and animated in Maya. Then it was passed to Renderman to look more like a person than a 3d character then finally to Shake to put it in the scene.
Make sense?
P-Worm
Trowaman
macrumors 6502a
D'oh!
Here I am in college majoring in RTVF, using FCP begging for 4.0 for X-mas and now they put the next part of 4 out of my reach. I have a 1.0 GHZ iMac, which I know is not the ideal Pro computer, but they put my fav. tool just out of use for me. I'm sad now.🙁 I want a G5. Maybe in 3-4 years when there's 4.0 GHZ light based G5s or something.
Here I am in college majoring in RTVF, using FCP begging for 4.0 for X-mas and now they put the next part of 4 out of my reach. I have a 1.0 GHZ iMac, which I know is not the ideal Pro computer, but they put my fav. tool just out of use for me. I'm sad now.🙁 I want a G5. Maybe in 3-4 years when there's 4.0 GHZ light based G5s or something.
G5 Optimizations don't mean it doesn't run on a G4. It just means it runs that much better on the G5.
-Hertz
-Hertz
LethalWolfe
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FCP is used for a lot more than offline DV cuts and has been a serious Avid threat sense FCP 3 came out. FCP itself is completely resolution indenpendent so it can handle anything you throw at it (assuming of course you have hardware that can handle it). Off the top of my head, the TV show Scrubs, and the movies Intolerable Cruelty (Clooney & Zeta-Jones) and Cold Mountain (due out in Dec) were/are being cut w/FCP.
Lethal
I bought too early
Unreal. I buy a 1.8 G5 in September for $2399 just as theycome out and now $100 more buys me a dual G5. I feel stupid and on top of that I was supporting Apple with their new product and not even 3 months later they offer a dramatic upgrade!
Unreal. I buy a 1.8 G5 in September for $2399 just as theycome out and now $100 more buys me a dual G5. I feel stupid and on top of that I was supporting Apple with their new product and not even 3 months later they offer a dramatic upgrade!
Are single 1.8 Ghz G5 upgradable?
Does anyone know if single 1.8 Ghz G5 machines are capable of being upgraded to a dual? Is there room inside or is it set up that way so that eventually if they ofer it you could buy a second G5 chip and pop it in there?
Just got off the phone with Apple. Nope. If you bought a single 1.8 G5 it can't take another chip. Thanks Apple for luring in the first buyers.
Does anyone know if single 1.8 Ghz G5 machines are capable of being upgraded to a dual? Is there room inside or is it set up that way so that eventually if they ofer it you could buy a second G5 chip and pop it in there?
Just got off the phone with Apple. Nope. If you bought a single 1.8 G5 it can't take another chip. Thanks Apple for luring in the first buyers.
mrsebastian
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nuckinfutz
macrumors 603
Re: Are single 1.8 Ghz G5 upgradable?
That truly sucks CB. I'm sorry to hear that. I don't blame you for venting but enjoy your Powermac you got a good machine and it'll be just as fast as the Duallie in non MP aware apps.
That truly sucks CB. I'm sorry to hear that. I don't blame you for venting but enjoy your Powermac you got a good machine and it'll be just as fast as the Duallie in non MP aware apps.
You should have known better...
Why anyone would buy a single processor Power Mac is beyond me... Apple was selling way more DP 2.0s, hence the hurried updates.
But your single chip 1.8s are still useful! Just not hyper-awesome-kickass fast like a DP machine!
Why anyone would buy a single processor Power Mac is beyond me... Apple was selling way more DP 2.0s, hence the hurried updates.
But your single chip 1.8s are still useful! Just not hyper-awesome-kickass fast like a DP machine!
LethalWolfe
macrumors G3
Re: I bought too early
Actually the G5's went on sale in June. So this update keeps in line w/their usual 6 month product cycle.
The next big thing is always around the corner so don't sweat it.
Lethal
Actually the G5's went on sale in June. So this update keeps in line w/their usual 6 month product cycle.
The next big thing is always around the corner so don't sweat it.
Lethal