Ex1 rendering times idea

[Craig Seeman]

Brian,
I very much appreciate the business situation you’re in. ROI has to be the primary concern of any business these days. I’ve run into similar business decisions myself.

It’s tough to be boxed into that corner. One may have to consider how to handle that sort of business problem. It’s worthy of a business forum post. There are few of that kind in that forum though. You’d need to consider whether your price point is too low to fund the gear you need (and clients should be paying for) or maybe it’s not bringing in enough work to have the margin for growth.

It seems the solutions are:
New 6 core MacPro
Convergent Design NanoFlash
AJA KiPro Mini
Render over night

Painful I know.

Are your clients really in a hurry or is this just an issue of convenience?
As long as you can play EX sequence set to ProRes fx renders there may be ways to play out to create a screening copy.

BTW throw in the demand for H.264 delivery and you’re thrown down even further on the speed since there’s no way to add CompressHD or MXO2 with MAX which require PCIe slot or Express port. Elgato H.264 Turbo only needs USB but the quality generally won’t match MAX.

[Craig Seeman]

Doesn’t that still need PCIe slot or Express port?
Basically it’s the fundamental problem of expandability and why even the new iMac 4 Core, which otherwise might be close to MacPro 4 core, is hampered.

These is why many people want a low end MacPro because sometimes the connectivity can overcome limits weaker CPU. Of course since Apple is a hardware company (remember their business model is software sells hardware) they’re not likely to go that route. Heck look at what they’ve done with Express port and MacBook Pro (Express port gone from 15″) and what they attempted to do by removing firewire as well from MacBook for a time.

[Brian Paterson]

Hi Craig,
None of my clients have complained ( as yet) about the length of time I take and they all love the finished product. But this is a new business for me and have only done half a dozen videos this year.
Before the Ex1 and even before high def ( when this was a hobby) I remember the joy of the edit when ideas came quickly and the manipulation of the clips matched the pace of the creative juices flowing from the freshness of it all.
Now I fall asleep whilst waiting for things to render and I have to sit here 14 hours a day seven days a week watching my life dissappear. (I have recently taken up the guitar again which I practice whilst waiting for things to complete so that’s a plus.)
But part of my transition into the professional world is my development of a more grand style of editing with many layers and dreamy transitions, all of which of course are very proccessor intensive.
To have it happen more instantaneously and to be able to do other things in my life would be good and so I need to find a quicker way of doing all of this, but times are tough and mony is scarce- both for me and my clients who are always on the point of not comissioning me at all because they are struggling to find the money.
If it were not for the fact that I have spent a considerable amount of money and several years upping my game to give a professional product then I might throw it all in and go back to creating art for a living.
(it’s tempting)
Ideally if I could speed it all up I could do both.
Love the quality of the Ex1 – Hate all the problems and high additional costs that are coming with it.

Thanks for all you help and advice.

With Kind Regards
BRIAN PATERSON.

brian paterson

[Daniel Startek]

I long for the old days of on-line, A-B roll editing in $600.00/hr tape suites with the latest ADO and Super Hi-Band! 🙂

[Michael Slowe]

Daniel, I go further back than that. A & B roll editing FILM ! No problem with rendering or expensive edit suites. Cut all the footage into clips, actually see what you have, splice it all as you want it, synced up with your mag film audio. We did need a lab though to fuse it all together.

Michael Slowe

[Craig Seeman]

[Michael Slowe] “We did need a lab though to fuse it all together.”

Labs had such slow render times.

[Steve Connor]

Thanks Craig, I’ll be using that one!

Steve Connor
Adrenalin Television

Have you tried “Search Posts”? Enlightenment may be there.

[Daniel Startek]

Actually, I was trying to make a facetious comment (in ten words or less) which was much better said here:

https://www.biscardicreative.com/blog/?p=1103

Alas, I failed on both counts.