In October Patently Apple posted a trademark report for Apple's Mac Pro 'Afterburner.' Our report pointed out that at one point during Apple's WWDC keynote they focused on one of the key components of the new Mac Pro, 'Afterburner,' and stated that they were working with industry heavy hitters in film and gaming businesses like RED, Unreal Engine, SideFX and Avid.

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In a report published after Apple's keynote, Here's what RED’s president had to say about the new Mac Pro in context with Afterburner: "Apple’s new hardware will bring a mind‐blowing level of performance to Metal‐accelerated, proxy‐free R3D workflows in Final Cut Pro X that editors truly have never seen before. We are very excited to bring a Metal‐ optimized version of R3D in September."

Today a report by Newsshooter, a website for working professionals shooting news, documentary and factual projects, they state that RED and Apple have completed METAL GPU accelerated R3D support in the SDK that will be rolled out to developers over the next 24 hours.

This support will also be integrated into the next major release of Final Cut Pro X.

According to RED, the SDK went out to DaVinci Resolve earlier in the week and there will also be support for use in Avid. If you are a Adobe Premiere Pro user you will have to wait. There is no indication currently of when it will receive support.