We also added Apple’s new $2,000 Afterburner card, which is a dedicated processor called an FPGA that accelerates decoding ProRes video files in certain apps. Macbook pro studio setup. And I mostly work in Premiere.
Apple offers its current Mac Pro for professional video editing also with the 2,500 Euro expensive Afterburner PCIe x16 accelerator card, which accelerates the work (more precisely the encoding, decoding and transcoding) with ProRes (RAW) - it supports the playback of up to six 8K ProRes RAW streams or 23 4K ProRes RAW streams simultaneously. Apple tab key.
- The latter allows macOS users to use the Apple Afterburner card with Premiere Pro to decode ProRes 422 and ProRes 4444 media (decoding in hardware instead of software). Keep in mind, though, that Afterburner support requires the Metal Renderer.
- If instead, you want to jump on the Apple train and go full throttle with a $5,200 upgrade, you should consider the Vega II Duo, since it will leave more PCI-E slots available. Leaving aside the bells and whistles like the wheels for your editing beast, we should talk about the Afterburner Card.
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Until now, support has been limited to Apple's editing program FCPX, QuickTime Player X and a few other third party apps - now support for Adobe's Premiere Pro editing program has also been announced. It was to be guessed that this has been in the works for a long time, since the presentation of the Mac Pro on the WWC in connection with Afterburner also showed Adobe and Blackmagic logos.
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Adobe has now announced in a posting in the Premiere Pro Forum that newer betas (from 14.3.0) of Premiere Pro/After Effects and Media Encoder already include support for Apple's Afterburner accelerator card and can be tried out by users who used it. Currently, decoding using Afterburner is supported for ProRes 4444 and 422 videos - ProRes RAW is not yet supported. To do so, you need to enable rendering via Metal in the respective Adobe programs (which is the default).
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