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MC Nitris DX
I’m considering making a purchase of a Media Composer Nitris Dx system.
What kind of realtome perfomance could I see on a 8 core mac pro max ram and raid?
Would you see the same performace from the system without the Nitris ex I/O?
How much does that effect realtime performance?
Has anyone tried running a dual boot with leopard/ vista 64?
I talked to avid tech support they said a customer was doing this succesfully!
But won’t support vista on a mac machine!
I just want an easy way to work in eyeon fusion 64bit current workflow with Fcp requires lots of transcoding between mac and windows with image seq because of 64 bit QuickTime
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[chance norris] “What kind of realtome perfomance could I see on a 8 core mac pro max ram and raid?”
Doing what exactly? I am on one right now and I can key in real time, scrub really fast, put 8 layers of video (well, it is 15:1) without issue. And on my home system I can do 5 layers of DVCPRO HD off my HD ONE SAS Raid….WITHOUT the Nitris. Nitris does take some burden off the CPU though, and that is big.
[chance norris] “Would you see the same performace from the system without the Nitris ex I/O?”
No…the Nitris helps. I can get 8-10 layers of DVCPRO HD with the Nitris. And it does help with more RT when using many effects.
[chance norris] “But won’t support vista on a mac machine!”
Why do you want to be running Avid 3.0 on a Mac under VISTA? It works on a Mac fine. ALL of the machines I am working on are MacPro Octo 3.0s. Haven’t crashed yet…4 weeks and counting.
I haven’t been this glad to be on an Avid since the Meridian days.
Shane
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I will be mostly working with DVC PRO HD.
The only reason I was curious about the nitris dx working in a dual boot configuration was I just loaded Vista 64 under bootcamp and installed XSI 7.0 and Eyeon Fusion 5.3 and they both work great.
I have an hp9300 for animation and compositing but the mac 8 core is twice as fast on the renders so it would be nice if I was working on the vista side to still be able to use the avid nitris without having to shut down and reboot in the mac os. It would then allow me to set up network renders with the hp9300.
Is the realtime like FCP RT (Does the preview quality starts to decline as you add more effects or do you just have to smart render where there are more effects and layers)?
Can you go straight to tape at anytime?
Any issues with long format programs?
Thanks again for your insight I want to spend my money on a system I can grow my business into and not being worried if the system is going to crash in-front of a client like previous systems (Fast DV Master / Speed Razor and Digisuite / Razor)nor do I want to have to wait for long renders.
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[chance norris] “Is the realtime like FCP RT (Does the preview quality starts to decline as you add more effects or do you just have to smart render where there are more effects and layers)?”
Not that I have noticed. Looks fine, then BOOM, have to render.
[chance norris] “Can you go straight to tape at anytime?”
YES! And the beauty of the new Nitris is that you can mix formats on the timeline (NOT frame rates…formats), like HDV, DNxHD, DVCPRO HD, and then output WITHOUT the need to transcode. How about THEM apples?
[chance norris] “Any issues with long format programs?”
Like what? Avid excels with longform. Never had issue…oh, wait. Adrenaline did. NO, this is not Adrenaline. This is rock solid and smooth as silk. Loving it. I am a long time Avid editor who converted to FCP when I needed to work on HD and Adrenaline wasn’t stable, and Meridians didn’t do HD. I didn’t come back until 3.0. 2.8 was tempting…and close. 3.o sealed the deal.
Shane
GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def
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