iMac Pro used for demo station, photographed at Final Cut Pro X Creative Summit
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Apple's iMac Pro made an appearance at the Final Cut Pro Creative Summit, with users at the gathering using it for rendering and demonstrations of the newly-announced update to the video composition suite.
Twitter user Chris Fenwick took a shot of the device, calling it "beautiful" and capable of playing un-rendered 8K footage in a Timeline in the updated Final Cut Pro X.
The new iMac Pro looks beautiful but it was playing unrendered 8K footage in a timeline... THAT'S crazy!! #FCPX Creative Summit. pic.twitter.com/B38gIhQKtB
— Chris Fenwick (@chrisfenwick) October 28, 2017
Final Cut Pro enthusiast blog FCP.co took a shot of the front of the machine at the event on Friday, including the Space Gray Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad, and keyboard.
Twitter user "bkbkbk" got a shot of the front of the machine from a different angle, and a close-up of the Magic Mouse in Space Gray.
This iMac can beat up your iMac. pic.twitter.com/39n5mdE9Qw
— Brian King of Beasts (@bkbkbk) October 27, 2017
This iMac can beat up your iMac. pic.twitter.com/39n5mdE9Qw
— Brian King of Beasts (@bkbkbk) October 27, 2017
The iMac Pro made a brief appearance at the 2017 WWDC. It will feature a 5K display, Vega Graphics, up to 18-core Xeon processors, up to 4TB of SSD storage, and will start at $4999 when it ships in December.
At the Final Cut Pro X Creative Summit on Friday, Apple debuted Final Cut Pro 10.4, a hotly anticipated update to the flagship professional video editing suite that includes support for VR, HDR footage, direct integration for iOS video and more. Apple has not announced a firm release date, but says the next version of FCPX will be available at some time in 2017.
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If the space grey, full-sized wireless keyboard, mouse and trackpad can be purchase I'm guessing those will be popular options, even if there's a premium (not unlike the original black poly-carb MacBook), but I'm wondering if this iMac will even sell as well as the Mac Pro "trash can" did upon its initial release.
Presumably it can also drive an external 8K monitor to view that unrendered 8K footage in real time.
The problem is that with all those resolution pixels Apple monitor may not be not video editing quality (definitely publishing issues existed). Still EIZO and NEC monitors are dominant and one would prefer solid Mac Pro dedicated CPU with video card for work than some big aggregate with monitor. From past expereince also Apple monitors fade over time and become low grade. Integrate with CPU and you have unneccessary cost of repair or throwing out good CPU because of bad monitor. We still run studion on separate CPU and definitelly high quality professional monitor of select size.
Maybe that iMac pro was good for demo, but as far as long term adoption there will be questions. You do not need to replace monitors every 2 years because they turn yellow or have issues with backlight.
That iMac Pro has dual Vega Pro custom GPGPUs.
I think this is great, but what we're seeing here will be the fully spec'd version which costs $17k+