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"There are plenty of editors who would love to be able to edit 4 8K (or 12K!) streams in real time :)" Is that really a common scenario? I can see editors at
by mikece 5y ago
"There are plenty of editors who would love to be able to edit 4 8K (or 12K!) streams in real time :)"
Is that really a common scenario? I can see editors at the big studios using monsters like this (because the studios can afford it) but are we talking about a market of hundreds or thousands? Is this something a free-lance video person would use?
- theklr 5y agoNot yet, but that future is nigh. And if you’re discussing workhorse computers, I’d at least want that capability for when the time comes.
- mjburgess 5y agoI think this is an overstatement anyway. It's more likely that these cores will accelerate increasingly complex effects applied to one 4k/8k stream. M1 is fast at editing, but not particularly fast when you factor in processing.
- jamesfmilne 5y agoNo, 8K is not really reality at the moment, but editing UltraHD is reality, and being able to easily edit or composite 2/3 streams of UltraHD with some complex effects in realtime is desirable. It's a bit mind-bending for those of us who remember the SGI Octane and Onyx days to think that 100x as much computation is available at 100x less power-consumption. (That's 10,000 times more efficient, for those following along at home.) Between that and the almost infinite instantaneous computation power available in the cloud at the press of a few buttons (and sufficient capacity on one's credit card), we ain't in Kansas any more.