New Mac Pro

[Marco Amaral]

Stig,
my only concern is about PRORES codec.
EVERYONE asks me a DCP and a PRORES file in the end of a movie.

Maybe there is a solution for windows? a codec that good?
As you know, resolve in windows don’t export prores.
I dont want to have a kiss-ass PC to run resolve, and 99% of the jobs ask me to go to a apple machine
just to export a PRORES file.

I don’t work in windows a long time. is there any good news about codecs?
PRORES is so good…

[Juan Salvo]

DNxHD is quite good.

Colorist | Online Editor | Post Super | VFX Artist | BD Author

https://JuanSalvo.com

[William Edwards]

Yeah, I read about people just sending out a job with DNxHD and shipping along the codec for the client to install with it.

ProRes 422 does have a slight color shift too.

[Juan Salvo]

Just to be clear when it comes to DNxHD i prefer to not use an MOV container.

Colorist | Online Editor | Post Super | VFX Artist | BD Author

https://JuanSalvo.com

[Stig Olsen]

Like Juan says, DNxHD.
It is effectively lossless at higher bitrates (185+) and 185X (10bit) +
DNX is coming fast forward as a standard and it is cross platform.

And for finishing most colorist export DPX, so I cant really see any point in holding on to the PRORES codec.

I have delivered TV spots to all the nordic channels and some european channels and none of them are tied to PRORES only.

And with DNxHD you dont need to think about the gamma issues that is well documented in PRORES.

DNxHD444 is also becoming a mastering format for a lot of large post production houses around the world.

You can also deliver to most platforms with the animation codec that is a very common codec used by a range of graphic artist.

STig

[Marco Amaral]

Ok. I’ll check DNxHD!
I don’t know if resolve in windows can read and work good with a PRORES movie.

I dont work for tv Stig (well, 5% of my work is for tv…)
Usually I finish for DCP, DPX, bluray and digital files.

But its normal to get a movie in PRORES and a conformed EDL to work in resolve.
Its possible to open prores in a windows resolve?

thank u all

[William Edwards]

Yes, windows can work with ProRes just fine.

[Marco Amaral]

thanks william
I’ve checked in the resolve codec list

[Margus Voll]

After seeing Foundry Mari on new Mac Pro i bet that Resolve will fly as mad on this machine.

It looks like SGI machines used to be, really fluid when playing 20 gigs worth of 3d maps
in realtime.

I do not see at the moment that HP Z machines can match that in any way.

Question is just how well one or the other of software is optimized on that platform and os.

At the moment it feels by the videos really cutting edge.

Cores do not play a big role here if data bus is really big and cores run really fast or efficiently.

Alone OS on 1200 MB sec drive will burn a little hole on my desk i’m sure. 😀

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Margus

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DaVinci 9, OSX 10.7.4
MacPro 5.1 2×2,93 24GB
GTX 470 / Quadro 4000
Multibridge 2 Pro

[Eric Fiegehen]

Margus,

The mother board they’re using is / will be Intel Falcon Ridge-based with the internal PCIe running at 160Gbps for the GPUs, PCIe Gen3 x1 or 4x for the flash drive. HP and others will be able to match bus speed, plus have available slots for whatever cards you want to put in these systems.

If you’re using an HP/Dell/whatever flavor, its chipset is Intel Falcon Ridge, and you want your power-hungry state-of-the art GPUs to run cool, or you don’t have more than a couple of expansion slots available, then you add a Cubix PCIe Gen3 x16 HIC plus Xpander to an open slot in the host and add 4,6, or 8 cards.

Eric