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VendettaStudios
VendettaStudios
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June 14, 2020
Question

Will premiere ever be optimized to take advantage of the new Mac Pro?

  • June 14, 2020
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Hi Premiere team,

 

I recently purchased the new Mac Pro (see specs below), and am a little disappointed Premiere doesn't take advantage of nearly any of the performance.  I wanted to ask what your plans are going forward to optimize Premiere for machines like this?  I absolutely love editing in Premiere, and I really don't want to switch to Final Cut or Resolve, but this software is becoming too slow as my workflow continues down the path of Raw 4K, 6K, etc.  

 

I bought a nearly $20,000 computer in hopes of speeding up my editing time, but my new Mac Pro runs Premiere almost the same as an older iMac.  (I also realize I can create proxies for all my files and it would edit faster, but part of the reason I purchased a 20K computer is so I didn't have to create proxies anymore.)

 

Again, I'm a huge fan of Premiere, and it just makes me sad that professionals using Apple can't take advantage of our hardware.  

 

Would love to hear any of your plans for optimization going forward, 

 

Thank you!

 

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R Neil Haugen
R Neil Haugen
Legend
June 15, 2020

Just so you understand this forum ... it's a user-to-user or "peer support" forum provided by Adobe for our use with some oversight/assistance from product support staff under Kevin Monahan. Occasionally we get some development staffer on here for assistance, but it's not a general means of communication to the engineers.

 

I'm a total PC guy, for 32 years now. But many on this forum are heavy into Macs, such as the above mentioned Kevin Monahan, who's probably gonna cry over not matching your machine. Ha!

 

While most of the Premiere engineers can work within PCs without issue, I've talked with a number at NAB and Adobe MAX. And most of them are by preference Mac people. So between Kevin, some of the other major "regulars" here, and perhaps an engineer if we're lucky, you can get some useful discussion. Just understand, all through development they are working with Premiere on the many Macs that Adobe uses in-house.

 

About the only thing I can add is that ... I'm a contributing author for a pro colorist's subscription teaching website, and yea, there's a lot of Macs "over there". Including folks with brand new powerful spendy Macs ... who still routinely transcode/proxy projects. So I'm not sure that "powerful machine" automatically equates with "never make proxies". Transcodes and proxies are common in professional workflows.

 

In fact ... multi-generational work is common in theatrical release, where you have fx things going out and coming back through multiple steps for different things.

 

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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Michael Grenadier
Legend
June 15, 2020

and with your machine, generating proxies should be very fast.  Gotta say that the proxy workflow in premiere is usually rocksolid and unless you're editing 24 hours a day, there's no reason why you can't be doing the proxy generation overnight,..  

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