Editing Disconnected Audio

[Aindreas Gallagher]

steven you wound me. you wound me sir. Sure that nearly felt like an attack on the poster. Crassly belittling them to entertainment value.

Shocking steven, just shocking. I may pick up my pen.

https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics

[Tony West]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “John Davidson’s barrelling through promos “

Indeed, the more people like that I see the more I feel like I have to learn on this thing : 0

Nice work on that last ad you did Brother A

[Aindreas Gallagher]

[Bernard Newnham] “The world stuck with Avid style timelines, and that was that. I think the same will happen here.”

I’m inclined to think so too, but there should be a few laments – this video is worth watching –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AaNkkTXt_ng

three minutes in is pretty interesting, and it largely keeps going – the interplay of the audio inspector architecture to the audio assets it can in multiple represent is pretty remarkable, and when he starts throwing the pro-level EQ software apple have lying around as paste attributes on the fourteen minute mark is arresting.
One thing you can’t argue about is that apple have wedged pretty deadly serious audio adjustment into the software.

Also the CC and power masks are – really not in any way messing around. The power masks, with stacked effects, are a literal dream in operation at 1080P on bog standard iMac hardware. Go into an apple store – stack it up – its surreal.

that said – the timeline is a bag of distressed cats.

https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics

[Steve Connor]

Sorry, couldn’t resist. I’ll red card myself

Steve Connor

There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum

[Richard Herd]

If you don’t like it, why do you keep playing with it? I like mine a lot. And I play with it. I even invite others to play with it too.

[Bernard Newnham]

[Craig Seeman] “It’s Xeon (I suspect) with Thunderbolt. That’s not in any PC.”

[Steve Connor] “[Bernard Newnham] “which runs a different, Unix based operating system”

Which a lot of us like

[Bernard Newnham] “the new one will be like the old one but faster.
”
Let’s hope so”

I’m not that knowledgeable about i7s and Xeons, so I’ve looked around. It seems that Xeons are the fastest of the Core i processors on test – out of the “top bin” apparently. They are locked – no overclocking – and support ecc memory. They’re then marketed for servers, machines that run on full 24/7. People who’ve tested them say there’s little difference between them and Core i7 apart from ecc support, but they cost lots more. If you really want Thunderbolt, Asus sell a PCIe card, but generally people don’t seem to.

Maybe I should go into business building to spec PCs. I can make one that goes faster than any MacPro, and when the new chips come out, match any future PC variant just by buying the same stuff. I could even put them in shiny boxes and make them “reassuringly expensive” as Stella Artois used to say. Buy your own OSX of course – don’t want to get sued.

Bernie

[Craig Seeman]

Xeons also allow for multiple processors. This is important for those who need more than 4 or 6 cores. That would be high speed rendering and compression amongst other things or those that run multiple demanding programs.

It’s possible that Apple may handle some motherboard aspects in some unique ways. With Intel announcing they’re going to wind down their own motherboard design, that’s even more likely. I doubt Apple will be buying their motherboards from companies like Asus or MSI.

One thing I’m guessing on is a much better integrated GPU than what Asus is using for example. I’m thinking one might have an option to buy a new MacPro without a 16x GPU card. That would be a server model. At the same time it would allow someone a lower entry price point. Also freeing the 16x GPU from “monitor duty” could mean a bit more resources for GPU intensive tasks. Obviously this is all speculative but these will be some of the reasons why one might buy a new MacPro over trying to build the equivalent.