So what happens to our hardware…?

[Walter Biscardi]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Let’s see what happens after “Early 2012″.”

See you in Vegas?

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[Jeremy Garchow]

[walter biscardi] “See you in Vegas?”

I’m really hoping. It feels like it’s going to be a doozy this year.

[Fredy Schwerdtner]

Very well said Walter.
I’m still using tapes on my camera, my computer has a DVD burner, once in a while I have to get clips from client’s VHS tapes and God, please, take me away from the bureaucratic Windows ….

iMac 2.7 GHz Intel 4 Core i5
16 GB memory

MacBook Pro 17″
2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
6GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

OWC RAID 5 with 3TB
(2) External HD LaCieMac (400/800 FW and USB)with 500GB -(2) USB External HD Western Digital (in cases) with 750GB
OS X 10.6.5
Final Cut Studio “3”

[Dan Stewart]

Speaking of Smoke on Mac, I guess it’s DOA..

[Walter Biscardi]

[Dan Stewart] “Speaking of Smoke on Mac, I guess it’s DOA..”

Um, what? We have it here. It’s quite alive and well on the Autodesk website and operates nicely with pretty much all your FCP hardware.

https://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?id=15657302&siteID=123112&ch=ON&src=OMSE&mktvar001=353312&mktvar002=353312&utm_source=Google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=smoke%20for%20mac&utm_content=Branded%20Exact&utm_campaign=Autodesk%20-%20ME%20Smoke%20-%20Branded

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[Walter Soyka]

[Dan Stewart] “Speaking of Smoke on Mac, I guess it’s DOA..”

Why?

Autodesk made the brilliant move of broadening Smoke’s GPU support several releases ago.

Even if the Mac Pro goes away, Smoke works today on iMacs and laptops. It processes on the graphics card, and the iMac offers passable ones. Autodesk would only need to add Thunderbolt video I/O support, and Smoke could do pretty much everything on a laptop that it can do on a workstation today.

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[Walter Biscardi]

[Walter Soyka] “Even if the Mac Pro goes away, Smoke works today on iMacs and laptops. It processes on the graphics card, and the iMac offers passable ones. Autodesk would only need to add Thunderbolt video I/O support, and Smoke could do pretty much everything on a laptop that it can do on a workstation today.
“

Yep, that’s what Autodesk showed back in July at our Atlanta Cutters meeting. Smoke running on a MacBook Pro with a thunderbolt RAID. Smoke on the Mac is far from DOA, not even sure what folks are thinking.

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[Walter Soyka]

[walter biscardi] “Yep, that’s what Autodesk showed back in July at our Atlanta Cutters meeting. Smoke running on a MacBook Pro with a thunderbolt RAID. Smoke on the Mac is far from DOA, not even sure what folks are thinking.”

Autodesk was fast to add ATI support when Apple dropped NVIDIA as a CTO option, and they were pretty speedy integrating ProRes and certifying Lion, too. I get the sense they have put serious development resources into it and are very committed to Smoke on Mac.

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