Intel Core i7 + Adobe CS4 = CeBIT Magic!
Hallo, meine Freunde! Today marks the end of Day 4 out of 6 at CeBIT, here in Hannover, Germany. If you're unfamiliar with this show, CeBIT caters to over 4,000 exhibitors from all over the world, presenting their digital solutions creative innovations. Myself, along with Rufus, Sven Doelle, and our pal Sven Brencher have spent the past four days presenting at this show, with a large focus on emphasizing the power and performance of CS4, utilizing the Intel Core i7 Processor - Extreme Edition. In short, there's no doubt that a quad-core system with 8 threads can really make things like RED Camera workflow look AMAZING; the performance, real-time capabilities, and processing power of this chip have been astounding to both myself, Rufus, and especially our customers. Render times, Dynamic Links, using Adobe Media Encoder, even processing functions like Auto-Align and 'load into Photoshop Layers' are astoundingly fast.
Couple that with Photoshop CS4 in 64-bit (under Windows Vista 64) and leveraging Premiere Pro and After Effects CS4 (already architected for 64-bit) and you've got yourself a pretty sweet set-up, and a very compelling series of stage shows.
In short, it's been a real pleasure being part of this event as Adobe representatives in the Intel Pavilion. With consistent standing crowds and an obvious desire from the attendees for information about speed/performance and how that can affect their work with Adobe apps, we're definitely in the right place, at the right time.
I'm hoping to report a little more when the show ends, but tomorrow I'll be heading out to Munich for the day, to present at the Toca Me Design Conference. Should be great, and I'm sure to have a few stories to tell upon my return tomorrow evening. Sunday, it's back to the show floor for the final day, and then home...for a bit!
Here's a few snaps that our fellow Adobe colleague, Sven Doelle captured with his iPhone...
Jase shows off real-time RED @ 2k with standing crowd
Rufus demonstrates and wows with the power of Photoshop and InDesign CS4
Until next time,
Blog on.
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Greetings, Mein Sensei!
Nur Ein oder Zwei Frage: The workstations, did you have an AE/Premiere-accelerated GPU installed? Does it affect final render or RED playback?
Keep on bleaching preaching!
-Tommi
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Hey Tommi! The machines were standard towers, one SSD boot drive with applicatios (80GB) and one spinning drive (100GB) for assets ; ATI Sapphire cards, but no more. Quad-core i7 with 6GB ram. Full, real-time playback of RED @ 2k *with* transitions and fast color corrector. It's fricken' amazing...and it's without any 'additional' video hardware. And for rendering: I rendered the 'Double Identity' 1-minute trailer (P2, 960x720) into H.264 @ 6Mbps, half-size (480x360) in approx. 19 seconds; full frame size was still less than a minute. Incredible. All the best. ---JL
Posted by: Tommi Luhtanen | March 7, 2009 5:10 AM