On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Steve Cottrell <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17/2/13, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed: > >>What do you really need a Mac Pro 8-core for? My brother uses one of >>those but he does real-time work (video/audio editing - it's his >>business: http://www.headlinestudios.net/Headline_Studios.html) which >>is orders of magnitude more demanding than still photography work. > > You say that but I know at least one editor who uses a Mac mini - > admittedly it's out on the road in a satellite van but he swears by it!
Oh, I believe the Mac mini is powerful enough to do the editing job. But the ProTools software that Joe uses has dedicated cards that talk to fast external drives, it requires the slots in the Mac Pro. The next rev of the software will likely remove that constraint and use the Thunderbolt interface to faster storage hardware. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
