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Pretty amazing Thunderbolt demo.
Mac hardware, Windows OS (PPro NLE).
Native red 4k footage playback, Thunderbolt, Live camera record (SDI/Blackmagic UltraStudio), live screen capture record all at once on a ……… MacBook Air.
https://youtu.be/jKx-cr4bi74?hd=1
Yowza. So uhh, about those MacPros….
Jeremy
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been waiting on the intensity extreme to actually be sold so i can finally get broadcast out, out of a imac. not quite as demading or groundbreaking as the use of TB in the demo, but definately a sign that you dont need a beast of a box anymore to get professional results.
Neil Goodman: Editor of New Media Production – NBC/Universal
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[Neil Goodman] “but definately a sign that you dont need a beast of a box anymore to get professional results.”
What? Blaspheme!
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Yeah that’s pretty ridiculous. I can’t wait to start using Thunderbolt myself.
A lot of people are predicting the death of MacPros but with new technology like this, will it matter?
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Interesting, and not too surprising it was demonstrated on Windows based on what I read on Magna’s site https://www.magma.com/thunderbolt.asp. According to Magna a Thunderbolt attached PCIe chassis appears to Windows exactly like internal PCIe slots. The same is not true for OS X and using external graphics cards in these chassises is currently impossible.
This gives me hope that a MacPro with a few PCIe slots is coming. Without it there’s no way to use a PCIe GPU even with a Thunderbolt PCIe expansion chassis.
John
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[Dustin Parsons] “A lot of people are predicting the death of MacPros but with new technology like this, will it matter?”
To some, yes.
To others, no.
This is pretty amazing considering it’s a MacBook Air, all things aside. Let’s just take that in for a moment.
Moment over.
There has been grumblings, though, that Thunderbolt won’t work with external GPUs OSX but will with Windows. That’s probably why he is using Windows here as the Rocket seems to be a custom GPU of sorts.
If so, we Mac users take another gut punch.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “[Neil Goodman] “but definately a sign that you dont need a beast of a box anymore to get professional results.”
What? Blaspheme!”
Now remove the $5,000 Red Rocket card and giant RAID and see how well the Air does. The peripherals are what make this demo possible, not the laptop. You could probably get similar results on a Thunderbolt enabled netbook, if it existed.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “That’s probably why he is using Windows here as the Rocket seems to be a custom GPU of sorts.”
The Red Rockets is a $5,000 decoder card for Red files. It’s a one trick pony, but if you deal extensively in Red it’s a huge asset. Especially if you want to cut on a laptop. Otherwise you spend days transcoding your footage before you can work with it.
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Michael Hancock
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Lenovo and Acer announced Thunderbolt support.
Magma is testing PCIe Thunderbolt expension on Mac and Boot Camped Mac with Windows ahead of the Windows laptops.
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It might be Apple will have an OS update along with whatever replaces the MacPro that will resolve this issue.
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[Michael Hancock] “Now remove the $5,000 Red Rocket card and giant RAID and see how well the Air does. “
Duh.
Have you tried to playback 4k Raw footage on a desktop? Doesn’t work really well there wither unless you’re at 1/2 resolution.
If shooting Red (or a DIT) this is great. Sorry, won’t let you pee on my parade. 🙂
Jeremy
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