@rikyxxx - I gotta disagree on a couple of your points. CS6 is every bit as "neato futuristic looking" as FCPX. It looks a little more professional, due to FCPX's simplistic GUI. It will be more robust if you use AE thanks to Bridge and faster due to editing native. Brief conform time. Yes, I I know that Apple does this in the "background". I have both and I thought FCPX was the way to go when it came out (despite the lousy reviews) even though I had PP 5.5 Premiere worked better with the files. NO 5d to RGB necessary. The thing that may help with speed on FCPX is that the GH3 spits out the better qual 50Mb/s MOV file.

I agree about the ram. I have 16 gigs in a new mac mini and I feel like I could always use more as I watch the bytes tick down on my FreeMemory app.

edit: I forgot to mention the cloud. I will spend a whopping $600 on the cloud this year for everything that Adobe makes. That's a helluva deal.

Hey everyone, I'm not sure if this is the proper thread, but I'm debating between going with Adobe Premiere or transitioning to Final Cut X (I'm on Final Cut 6 presently, but think it might be a good idea to upgrade for 32bit color correction, amongst other reasons). I'm waiting for my GH3 to arrive, so most of my footage will be 23.97 I imagine, and I'm presently running a 2009 17" macbook pro with 4 gig ram (which I have no problem upgrading to gig ram) with 2.66 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo - which I hope can handle the GH3 footage. In the future, I might upgrade to a 15" retina display. What are people's opinions? Is it worth the extra money, and is it a better option in comparison to Final Cut X? Thx!

just kidding :-)

SLi 2-3 x 480GTX or 580 GTX will bring you superior performance than Quadros and with CUDA :-) . In terms of drivers all new Nvidia cards (as of feb 2012) are now providing the same driver (Mac/PC) which makes the world of the Hackintosh plist editing that much easier. 680 will be supported in Mountain Lion.

I was looking at Apple as a SW house that competes with Adobe, however I admit your point is valid as well. Sometimes things are complex ;-)

Best I don't know, very interesting for sure. I've been looking for such a test for a long time :-)

However let me underline that IF I'm right about OpenCL vs CUDA performance with FCPX, than Apple should be blamed for not supporting CUDA as it deserves on their softwares.

@Vitaly You're right, NVidia OpenCL implementation isn't good enough at present.

I'd like to see the same test with FCPX on system with an AMD card.

CS6 support for OpenCL cards is very limited as they state.
Look at our cards topic. 7950 and 7970 are extremely good cards considering performance. In abstract. In practice AMD cards support is still lacking. And, btw, NVidia OpenCL implementation is not best still.