Apple FCP and 压缩机 vs. Adobe CC, Timeline-to-Transcode Workflows, Part 2: Test Results--UPDATED WITH LINK TO TEST FILES

You can now view our project files, 编码器预设, output files to compare the quality and specs for yourself at 这个链接.

“Better late than never” is often a good excuse, but in our case, it was a necessity. Two areas we didn’t anticipate—distance and a newer R3D workflow—conspired to delay our testing an extra two weeks.

蒂姆Siglin, who co-wrote the initial article about the testing methodology, ended up in India on a very limited data connection, meaning it was difficult to move test and project files back and forth to our office. 除了, this meant he couldn’t get to key Adobe and Apple software updates to Final Cut, 压缩机, Premiere Pro, Adobe Adobe Media Encoder.

Once we solved the distance problem, we waited a bit more to see if Apple would respond to a few key questions about the 压缩机 application, subsequently found an issue with using R3D files within the Apple ecosystem.

关于我们的装备

As a quick recap from the last article, we used two machines to test: an Apple MacBook Air (11”, 2013) and an Apple MacBook Pro (15”, 2013).

The MacBook Pro we chose (ME249LL/A) is a 2013-era laptop with a 2.3 GHz Intel Core-i7 (quad-core) processor and 512 GB of PCIe-based flash storage drive. 除了, this MacBook Pro has 16GB of 1.35V (low-voltage or DDR3L) RAM running at 1600MHz and an NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M with 2GB of GDDR5 memory. It’s priced at approximately $2540 at 亚马逊.

这种基于闪存的存储, connected directly to the PCIe bus rather than via M-SATA or the slower SATA, means that we’ll eliminate any bottlenecks in disk I/O for our testing. The only other two Macs to have the PCIe-based flash storage drive are the new Mac Pro, which we will talk about below, the 2013-era MacBook Air laptops.

So to make it a fair comparison, we chose the MacBook Air 11” laptop (MD712LL/A) with a 1.3 Ghz Intel Core-i5 (dual-core) processor and 256 GB of PCIe-based flash storage drive. This MacBook Air has 4 GB of 1.5v (DDR3) RAM running at 1600MHz and an integrated GPU called the Intel HD Graphics, which uses 1 GB of built-in memory. It’s priced at approximately $1140 at 亚马逊.

关于我们的测试文件

Our test files were provided by 南方数码影院 (RED原始文件)， 取景器电视, 格雷格·豪利特制作公司 (multi-camera concert footage). The specs on the seven clips we used are as follows: