**Unboxing and Initial Impressions: The 28 Core Mac Pro**

Hey guys, it's Justine, and we're back with another Mac Pro video. I've been using this machine for a few weeks now, editing a ton of projects, and now I think it's finally time to show you some of things that I've been working on.

As you can see from the footage, this is the 2.5 GHz, 28 core Mac Pro. Four terabyte solid-state drive, 384 gigs of RAM, and Dual AMD Radeon Pro IIs. Obviously, this is a machine that is built for professionals. I'm a professional, but this is like taking it to a whole other level. We're talking people who are editing Star Wars, doing crazy motion capture, doing things that are far beyond making YouTube videos, but I will say, if I were to be doing videos like I had for the unboxing, shooting three 8k Reds, editing a multi-cam timeline, then maybe this would be a machine that I would need on a daily basis.

**Pushing the Machine to the Limit**

So let me show you guys some of the things that I've been doing to try to push this thing to the limit. The first thing I want to show you is over here. This is far beyond anything that I would ever be doing with this computer. This is called photogrammetry, and it's a technique used in 3D scanning and modeling.

Thank you to Alex Lindsay for sending me this project and all of these photos. He took these a few years ago in India and he sent me an email and said, "Hey Justine, I've got some crazy photos that I think would be perfect for your Mac Pro." And boy, was he right. These are some incredible images, and it's amazing to see how the machine can handle such complex data.

**Conclusion**

I hope you guys have enjoyed this video as much as I have. It's been a lot of fun to showcase the capabilities of this incredible machine. As I mentioned earlier, if you're an editor who needs to work with large files and multiple streams of data, then this Mac Pro is definitely worth considering. But for me, it's more of a toy that I can use to push the boundaries of what's possible on my current machine. Either way, I'm excited to see where this journey takes me.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- Hey guys it's Justine and we are backwith another Mac Pro video.I've been using it for a few weeks now,editing a ton of projectsand now I think it's finallytime to show you guyssome of things that I've been working on.(gentle music)Just a recap, this is the 2.5 gigahertz,the 28 core Mac Pro.Four terabyte solid statedrive, 384 gigs of RAM.We also have Dual AMD-Radeon Pro IIs.Obviously, this is a machinethat is built for professionals.I'm a professional, butthis is like taking itto a whole other level.We're talking people whoare editing Star Wars,doing crazy motion capture, doing thingsthat are far beyond making YouTube videos,but I will say, if Iwere to be doing videoslike I had for the unboxing,shooting three 8k Reds,editing a multi-cam timeline,then maybe this would be a machinethat I would need on a daily basis.So let me show you guys some of the thingsthat I've been doing to try topush this thing to the limit.The first thing I wannashow you is over here.This is far beyond anything that I wouldever be doing with this computer.This is called photogrammetry.Thank you to Alex Lindsayfor sending me this projectand all of these photos.He took these a few years ago in Indiaand he sent me an email and said,\"Justine, do you really wanna pushthis Mac Pro to the limit?\"And of course, I was like \"yeah.\"And if anybody is gonna do that,it's definitely gonna be Alex.So we're taking 190 raw imagesand turning it into a lifelike 3D modeland this app that we'reusing is called Metashape.Now, I dragged all ofthese in this morningand before I started the project,I had no idea how longthis normally takes.Alex said it usually takesabout two to three days.I was like, \"What! I thoughtthis was gonna take a few hoursand I'd be done by the time Istarted filming this video.\"But so far, we're makingreally great progress.So you can see over here, Ihave everything being monitored.We have all of our cores available.We're also monitoring ourCPU, GPU and our memory.And don't forget, I alsohave Final Cut open over herewith a 8k multi-cam edit happening.So there's a lot of stuffthat I've been doingall day while this has been running.So the first step in this whole processwas to align the photos.Now I thought that I would use the Browsebecause it would take a lot longer.He also sent JPEGs, but I was like, \"No.If we're gonna do this,we're gonna freaking do it.\"So it finds points ofinterest on the photos.Sometimes there will be upto 100,000 points per image.That's insane.So it looks for the samedetails on other imagesand when it finds them, it correlatesthose images with those points.And it builds a network betweenall the images of these pairsand then it uses thosepoints to reverse engineerwhere the cameras needed tobe to shoot these images.This will produce a Point Cloud,which will representthis entire image in 3D.This is a pretty intense process.Next step, we're building the Mesh.So with this, we're gonnabe taking those Point Cloudsand that's gonna bebuilding actual surfacesso that that could be renderedout in 3D or in AR App.Next, we have Building Texturesand I know there was one other stepthat we also wanted to try out,but I left it out of this onebecause it was incrediblyprocessor-intensive.So that will be maybe a testthat we do down the line,but I just wanted to getthis process started.So far, we're halfway done.So I'm gonna let thisrun and do it's thing,but I'm gonna show you some of the thingsthat I've been working on herethat I'm more familiar withthat I do on a daily basis.The first thing I wanna show you guysis a little HDR projectthat I put together.I've still be mostly doing SDRbecause I've never really had a monitorthat was able to show mewhat true HDR looks like.So now that I have this,I was really excited to test this out.So here's my HDR test clip here.So what I did to do this,if you've never workedwith HDR before, there's aton of really great tutorialsthat Ripple Training has done,which is what I watchedto get these settings.So thank you guys.So I went in and Icreated a Wide Gamut HDR.I chose Rec. 2020 PQ.You also wanna make sure that the librarythat you're workingwith is also set to HDR.You can check that by clicking on modifyin your Library Settings.So you'll see, you have two options:Standard and Wide Gamut HDR.So if it's not already set toHDR, you can change it here.There's a few different calibrationsthat you can set your monitors to.So right now, I have thisone set to the 1600 nitsand I'm gonna set my second onesort of as my reference monitor.We're gonna set that tothe HDR Display Setting.Here's some of the Custom Display Settingsthat you have right now.Both of these monitorsare set to 1600 nits.I'm gonna scroll downhere to the HDR Video,so that's gonna be settingthis monitor over here to an HDR setting.You'll notice instantly thatthis screen is much darker.So if you do wanna goin and have a monitorthat obviously doesn't show HDR,you can click Show HDR is Tone Mapped.What I'm gonna do is, since this monitoris now calibrated, we'regonna send this over thereso you guys can see the difference.It looks amazing, but it'sreally hard to show you guysif you're not on an HDR monitor.Here in real life, it's a huge difference.It's really wild.We go into Color and Effects,this will show you guys.We can go all the way up to 10k Luminance.Normally, you don't wanna go past 100.So right now, we'rekinda pushing it at 400.We can boost this up even more though.Let's bring it back down to where(gentle music)- It can look good.In case you guys forgot, we still do havethat photogrammetry projectthat's still renderingin the background.So this is kinda my firsttime working with HDR,so if you guys do have any suggestionsor any tutorials that you've watchedto help you get a better HDR workflow,please leave those in the commentsor send me a tweetbecause this is definitelysomething that I do wanna get more into.YouTube does support HDR, but sometimes,if you do export the video in HDR,I'm a little unsurehow it's gonna process.So for the most part,I've just been stickingwith SDR, but I do wanna try to experimentmore with this because obviouslythere are gonna be moreHDR televisions out there.So I wanna get prepared.That's on my to-do list for 2020.But next up, I wanna show youanother fun little demothat I put together.This now is a test withsome 8k Pro-Res 444 footage.I haven't yet added a lot, it's all raw.Apple was claiming that the Mac Procan do six streams in 8k per res raw.So I thought, \"Let's try it out.\"Here we go, and don't forget, we've gotthis entire massive projectrunning over here on this side.Here's one stream, two, three,four, five, and that's six.Now none of this is graded yet,so let's just maybe do thiswhile this is all running.Cool, oh that's weird.One, two, three, four, five, six,seven, eight, we have nine.Nine streams running almostperfectly, simultaneously.Do you guys wanna see it again?I do.Let's make it bigger.(upbeat music)I feel like, what isthat song that's like,♪she's beautiful ♪Is that James Blunt?- I can't remember.- I don't remember either,but that's what shouldbe playing right nowif I wouldn't get a copyright strike.But one, two, three, four,five, six streams, running beautifully.And here they are, all lined upto the best of my ability and I thought,let's just add three moreand see what happens.This is a test that Iwas most excited to dobecause I mostly shoot in 4k.Apple says that you can get 23 streamsof 4k Pro-Res Raw and 16streams of Pro-Res 422.So right now, we have some Pro-Res 422footage running quitenicely and don't forget,we also have another projectthat's running in the background.I'm just gonna pop a LUTon this while it's running,see what we can get it.Oh, wow, it magicallyworked just like that.Now if you think this is exciting,this is something thattook me way too long to do.I, by hand, put all of these in.Here's 25 running, almost perfectly.You may notice there's aframe drop here and there,but when I did this initially,I didn't have anything elserunning in the background.Don't forget, I'm gonnakeep reminding you,we have a massive 3D render happeningat the same time as all of this.Next, I wanna show you another projectthat I'm currently working on.It is an unboxing of a 1984 Mac.I bought this thing on eBay,oh my gosh, probably liketwo years ago at this point.So since we rendered the three AK Redsto do the unboxing of the Mac Pro,which if you haven't seen it,I'll put a link in thedescription, but this was so fun.So I thought it'd be really greatto shoot and edit on the new Mac Pro.So for this project,\"Hey guys, it's Justineand today we're unboxingsomething in this trash bagthat came from eBay over a year ago.\"I didn't transcode any of these files,I just took them basicallydirectly from the Redto my hard drive and putthem right into this project,which I definitely don't recommendbecause working with atranscoded Pro-Res footageis so much easier, but I really wantedto just test this outand see what it could do.I put this all into a multi-cam timeline,all three AK Reds.I just realized that I hadthis set to Better Quality,which is kind of crazybecause I usually editin Better Performance.How do I break this?I'm trying to break the computer, Tyler!I love editing in the multi-cam timeline.This was something thatI learned this yearwhen I was working onmy Final Cut tutorial.It has been so life-changing.It is so easy to edit multi-cam clips,which is usually what I'm filming with.We usually have at least two cameras.So here's the project,hopefully I'll have this finished soon.Now I'm gonna turn on my serverso I can show you guys some of the stuffthat I had been working on.The unboxing that weshot with this Mac Pro,the footage was such high qualitythat I ran out of storage spaceon every single thing that I hadand the only way that I wasable to finish this projectwas using the Jellyfish server,which it's a little loud.I never thought it was louduntil I got the Mac Proand realized how quiet that thing is.This thing is 75 terabytesand I'm about halfway full.So let's boot this up and I'll showyou guys my unboxing project.(computer running)- Do you hear,do you guys hear the difference?It's crazy!Little update here, wehave aligned the photos,built the Dense Cloud, andnow we're on the third step.We're building the Mesh.So I'm gonna keep letting this run,and then I'm gonna showyou guys the unboxing videothat I worked on that you've already seenposted here on YouTube.This was quite a process.First of all, I didn'ttranscode any of the footageinto Pro-Res like I should of,but I managed to get it done and honestly,I don't even think someof my other computerswould have even been ableto handle this at all.This entire Mac Pro project,I was curious to see howbig it was: 19.47 terabytes.At this rate, I'm gonna needseveral Jellyfish servers.I mean this thing, Ican store 75 terabytes.This is like three projects.This Mac Pro actually reallyisn't realistic either,but I am gonna embrace it.(upbeat music)- I'll be doing some follow-up videoshere on the Mac Pro, but for now,this is basically what I've been spendingmost of my time doing, shooting videosabout the Mac Pro and thenediting them on the Mac Pro.So this was kind of a lookat what's been going onthe past couple of weeks with it.I'm really excited to seethat outcome of this project.I'm not sure if this 3D renderis going to be completed by the timeI'm done shooting thisvideo, so if it's not,I'm gonna do a little follow-upand I will be posting thatoutcome right after this.(upbeat music)- I did have tofly out for the holidays,so I hadn't been back to my Mac Pro,but I did wanna give you guys a lookat this final 3D renderbecause it's pretty incredible.You can see, as we click through here,here's the different steps that we did.We went through the Tie Points,the Depth Maps, the Dense Cloud,and then here is the final 3D Model.This turned out pretty awesomeand to think that this would normallytake two to three days, whereas my Mac Proabout 20 or so hours andI feel like that's notthe most accurate numberbecause I was editinga bunch of 8k projects in Final Cutwhile this was renderingin the background.So if there's anythingelse you'd like to seeme test out on this Mac Pro,please leave me a comment,send me a tweet, let me knowand I will try to testit out on my next video.I have a bunch more videosplanned with this thing,but for now, I'm gonnago enjoy the holidays.And when we get back, therewill be more Mac Pro goodness.So I'll see you later.(upbeat music)\n"