@Joel Perez Irizarry

What formats do you work with? Have you tried working with Canon H.264 and Red R3D?

XDCAM, ProRes, P2 (720p / 1080i), AVCHD, DVCAM, DVCPro HD, H.264 (many flavors), GoPro, Contour, DV, HDV. Pretty much everything except RED and Alexa for the time being.

If you add effects like resize or color correction, do you still see no need for rendering?

Sizing changes are no issues whatsoever. We don't add color correction in the Premiere Pro timelines since we go to Resolve after the fact. But the basic 3 Way CC tool in Premiere Pro is realtime no problem. You know that any 32bit filter you throw onto a clip will drop performance of the system. If you stay with the 64 bit filters, it all runs faster.

I was holding up buying a new Mac Pro till next year, when they release the new models. But maybe if the performance difference is big enough, it could justify buying a new one now.

You mean "If." All Tim Cook said was that they were "working on something special for later in 2013." Might be a Mac Pro, might not.

If you need a machine right now, pick up a 16 Core HP / Dell / ProMax, put 48GB or so of RAM in there and at least an nVidia Quadro 4000. Sucker will scream. We have a Dell 8 core with 48GB RAM, Quadro 4000 and it can render as fast as our Mac Pro 12 core.

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