The new Mac Pro can be customized and expanded to some pretty insane levels, but most videographers and photographers are probably looking at builds that are less than the maxed-out version. This video shows how impressively even the base model Mac Pro performs when one adds the Afterburner accelerator card.
Coming to you from Jonathan Morrison, this interesting video shows how the new Mac Pro performs in its base configuration with the addition of the Afterburner card. The Afterburner is an optional accelerator card that speeds up the decoding, playback, and transcoding of ProRes and ProRes RAW files. In turns, this frees up the processor cores to focus on other tasks, such as adding effects to the timeline. Morrison decided to see how much he could push the card, and the results are quite impressive, as he plays 15 unrendered streams of 4.5K Pro Res 4444 XQ video with the CPU barely registering the activity, before he moves on to creating a 16K timeline that plays seamlessly, again with the CPU unstressed by the activity. The results are quite impressive, especially considering he is using the base model with only the addition of the accelerator card. Check out the video above to see it in action.