Iphone 13 ProRes - ProRes Encoding in next Mini/iMac/MBP

[mcnallym]

With the new processor in the iPhones doing ProRes then do you think will get hardware based ProRes encoding in the new mac models coming out.

currently running two Mac. 2018 Mini as iTunes Server and then an iMac 2019 equivalent hackintosh to do video editing, part of which is encoding to ProRes for easy video editing in FCP X.

thinking that if the next macs come with the new cores from the new iPhone then should be able to drop down to the one Mac.

or do you think apple won’t enable that in the macs to protect the Mac Pro.

not seen anything about this online so asking what people here think about this.

 

[Chancha]

Not even the AfterBurner card accelerates ProRes encoding as far as I know.

It is difficult to predict how much emphasis Apple will put on ProRes workflow for the M1X, I mean it is natural for that to be on the roadmap but as a launch chip of the "pro line up" I'd say they got other priorities.

Also, according to latest rumors we are going to see 16-32 graphic cores even on the bare SoC and the future MacPro likely will have more, at that point you may see so much graphical performance that a hardware acceleration is not going to be necessary unless the project is spec'd to the extreme?

 

[Jorbanead]

I believe the A15 has ProRes encoders/decoders but I dont think this has anywhere near the same capabilities as the Mac Pro afterburner card though.

Not even the AfterBurner card accelerates ProRes encoding as far as I know.

According to the website, the Afterburner only accelerates decoding and playback of multiple streams of ProRes and Pro Res RAW video files. So you’re right.

 

[Chancha]

I guess we will be seeing interesting numbers this month during the event. If A series chips are anything to go by, we know how proficient they can be when used for video encoding (as in after shooting videos directly on phone/pad). ProRes simply requires a higher bandwidth envelop and nothing more, where on a M series chip particularly an X variant with not as much power constrains, we may already see some native acceleration from the get go. The timing of iPhone 13 Pro getting the ProRes feature is also telling in that regard.