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yo guys johnathan here and the a MacPro is here like now and I'm like ally I'm a little excited so first things first we got that box within a box clearly I've opened up one too many Amazon boxes where you don't need a knife you know exactly what I'm talking about with this one I probably should have used one so get into the first box excitement level just went from here to here seeing that space cry my pro right smack on the front of the box so I Mac Pro is stamped on the top of the box and on one side we see that beautiful flat K display but as we flip things there's a side profile shot of the iMac pro because of that space great looks like this shadowy silhouette which is kind of awesome and before we get to the iMac Pro first we got to get to those sweet sweet Space Gray accessories first is the Apple wireless keyboard with a number-pad and those black keys pair with that space great finish looks really good next is the Apple Magic Mouse and as much as I love that space great finished not sure exactly how much I'll be using this at the very least though it is reflective as all hell so much so you can see light bouncing right off of it next is that space great trackpad which looks this I definitely will use I'll probably pair it with Logitech performance MX or something like that last but not least with a black lightning cable I'm not sure why this excites me because I know you can pick up a black lightning cable on Amazon but it is still cool nonetheless update I was looking for some black Apple stickers thought there would be maybe a hidden compartment here or somewhere inside but sadly we are out of luck so now finally it is time to get to the iMac pro I can see the space gray now if you've ever run box timac from what I could remember it's always been styrofoam so this nope that's kind of different kind of nice so we got one more box before we get to that I'm a crow and nothing exciting here we got that black power cord last but not least we got the iMac Pro they haven't got the Space Gray wrapping around that oh my goodness it looks so good but I've wanted it along with many people out there for a while now a space for iMac and the fact that it is a space for iMac and an iMac Pro it's kind of awesome last one look at that Space Gray holy crap feel like I'm sweating getting that thing out of the box the plan is to use it over the next couple days test it edit with it tonight I just want to get it out of the box so I can get an early start tomorrow and set it up so that next day is kind of turned into about a week and a half but within that time we got a chance to extensively test out the iMac Pro to quickly recap and reflect on my thoughts on this configuration which is a 10 core AMD Vega 64 model 120 gigabytes of RAM and 2 terabytes of flash storage I think the sweet spot in terms of price performance will be taken that base model and slowly upgrade in the process of to 10 cores now the reasons behind that is yeah those 14 and 18 core machines they're gonna be monsters but they're much more expensive and in terms of D 10 core that's actually the fastest clocks but you're gonna get in terms of single-threaded performance now as far as that performance actually the live stream this week showcasing performance and comparing the iMac pro versus a maxed out 2017 iMac and finally a macbook pro it was more so a real time kind of benchmark archive so you can go back and watch that if he wanted to so I will drop a link down below in terms of single core performance they were all pretty close across the board which hopefully wasn't too much of a surprise the iMac and MacBook Pro those were close with multi-core scores where the big difference was though was with the iMac Pro those 10 cores pumped out a score of over thirty six thousand now from there in terms of disk speed I kind of assumed all these would also perform very similarly it was mostly true except where the big standout was on the iMac Pro the right speeds were nearly three gigabytes a second which is kind of crazy so yeah benchmarks those are cool but to kind of showcase some real-world examples for me I shoot video I edit video that is what I do for a living so my main use for this iMac Pro is Final Cut Pro 10 and editing video with that said though I realize not everyone at its video especially within Final Cut Pro so I got a chance to sync up with my buddy Matt workman who was an insanely smart and talented dude he was awesome enough to tweak a cinema 4d scene so I could render it across the iMac Pro the iMac and the MacBook Pro what's interesting is he actually tested this out on his system which is a 16 core AMD thread Ripper configured total cost and that machine is about 5,400 bucks so that kind of puts some perspective on the iMac Pro that it's not crazy because with that configuration you got to remember you're also not getting a 5k display regardless though his system is an absolute monster and to render out that scene which is purely CPU based no GPU it took about three minutes and 18 seconds on his machine the a Mac Pro was just over 5 minutes the iMac non pro was about 12 minutes and the MacBook Pro finally finished up at 22 minutes so you can kind of see the performance across all these systems now for reference I do shoot on an 8k red camera but prior to the iMac Pro for the most part I would shoot in 4k Pro res so what that does it takes that beautiful a case sensor kind of down samples it into a buttery smooth 4k Pro res which is amazingly fast to edit you do lose those raw controls but you get a super sharp image great color and more importantly an insanely smooth editing experience now yeah you definitely could edit a K raw footage on an iMac or even if you wanted to a MacBook Pro but it's not the smooth experience and rendering an export takes absolutely forever but on the Mac Pro is almost like you unlock this completely new level that it in a K raw on the iMac Pro kind of felt like I was editing 4k Pro res on a MacBook Pro and if that makes sense it's crazy for me what was the most impressive thing about this was taking that aka footage a shot at a 12 to 1 compression which is actually pretty demanding on a computer and then from there taking that footage put it into a timeline plane everything back and while that is happening tweak the raw controls ISO white balance it is kind of mind-blowing if you cut the livestream essentially what I had going on was a K footage dropped to a 4k timeline I turned back on rendering off to kind of make this a little harder on the iMac Pro but it took that ak-47 emaki Pro and the IMF were still painfully chugging along I turned back on rendering on exported again and that was about a minute in 40 seconds which is faster than real time so that kind of power has enabled me to take full advantage of a que raw Reds new IP p2 color science which has been incredible within Final Cut Pro 10 point for the new color controls are amazing there's built-in LUT so you can see here this is pure red raw footage the next step from there will be to apply a rec 709 LUT that kind of gives us a great starting point and then from there I can then tweak things to really fine-tune and dial everything out so you can see before and after so that's kind of been my impressions with the iMac Pro so far I definitely want to do some more extensive testing and kind of complete these tests on the iMac Pro and the MacBook Pro and kind of do maybe a little more realistic test this is kind of an extreme example to showcase the pure power on the iMac Pro so as I continue to test this definitely let me know what you want to see in the full blown-out crazy review aside from that thank you guys very much for watching hopefully enjoyed it if you did make sure you smash that like button if you missed the live stream which kind of showcases these benchmarks in real time I'll drop a link down below this is Jonathan and I will catch you guys later