Tech Demo: Windows 7 64 bit, MacBook Air,Thunderbolt, and Premiere Pro

[kimfotoswe]

soo the sonnet expansion chassis, work like you put an graphic card in it, and then you can use the power from it on any macbook pro? with osx?

Were do you buy this chassis?

[Imhotep397]

I'm gonna look at FCP X 10.0.3...don't know if I'm going that way but I'm going to check it out. I'm wondering if this set-up will work with OS X and FCP X?

[CosenaEnzo]

The MacBook Air has core i7 dual-core

[xkyrulzx]

hah.....red rocket, who came up with that name? -__-

[warex3d]

Hey you see that? NO BLUE SCREENS, win 7 FTW ;)

[lin2log]

WOW... looking at this, you'd NEVER suspect this company has ANYTHING to do with GRAPHICS...

How fugly can you get??

[ewilczyn]

So, is the only reason that you used Windows to show that TB will run on windows? Or are there more reasons?

Great video by they way, pretty impressive.

[dhelmly]

@ewilczyn None - just because there are no real demos with TB and Windows.

Running the same test on Mac 10.7 kicks @ss - mac users have no worries in the TB department. it's just really new for WIndows users to see it.

thanks,

DKH

[thesagittariantv]

How does this compare to a decent gaming laptop with Cuda enabled? Surely if that plays red 4k fine then your better off with that rather than carrying all this extra external gear. Making it no longer a laptop

[dhelmly]

The Rocket is basically a special decoder for their camera files to preview at full res. No system to date can use only CPUs to decode RED at full 4K. Granted, it's not really needed when using most edit systems as they will scale the preview down to something closer to 1920x1080. 4K monitors are becoming more available and 4K workflow is being used on a number of high budget films today. This demo simply shows Thunderbolt may be a solution for some situation. Remember its a tech demo...

[white8ass8kika]

@dhelmly Hi, thanks for the video. What 4k monitor do use?

How long do you think it will be before they are available to powerusers (pricewise)

like £5k?

[dhelmly]

@thesagittariantv

Great question - when you have Adobe Mercury HW support (NVIDIA CUDA) , decent Cores/Thread count (16, 24, ..) and a RED Rocket, things really get interesting as all 3 will process in Parallel dividing the task at hand. The Rocket will handle the RED decode, CUDA will handle any Mercury Accelerated Effects (scale, transform , Color Correction and more) and the CPU Threads will take the rest.

So far there is no official support for GPU cards in TB cases ...Yet (stay tuned)

[oo0ooify]

I Didn't realize TB run under Bootcamp...this open a can of whoop a** for me. Since i owned CS5.5 and Resolve going to run these 2 program under boot camp..for all the Nvidia CUDA card that Window's has..planning to get the Cyclone or Cubix expander..and give Resolve 3 Cuda cards.

[dhelmly]

The point is to show more Thunderbolt devices regardless of the OS - Thunderbolt was last years news on Mac. The more systems using Thunderbolt, the more devices will ship. Currently, this is the only way to show Thunderbolt on Windows. Also keep in mind that all devices running under Mac or Windows need TB drivers. The devices shown in this video have beta Windows drivers which shows that the vendors are looking to Windows to help expand the TB ecco system - this great news for all mac users..

[tylerginter]

Thanks so much David for sharing this rare look into the future of our industry!  This is exactly what we need to speed up the process in post! Exciting times ahead :)

[OceanFuturesSociety]

Cutting edge, thanks Dave.