Value Priced Expansion Chassis?

[Robert Ober]

[Sascha Haber] ” Well, I just did…
Sold the Quadros, sold the Aja AND Decklink, the memory and everything MacPro 5.x
The Tin Can is on its way, two Areca TB Raids are ready, a miniMonitor will do the SDI/HDMI output and two 500 GB SSDs the external transport.”

Hey,

You’re a brave man, you do know the rule(s) about 1.0 products, eh?

I wish you luck! Please let us know how it goes.

Robert:-)

[Robert Ober]

[Clark Bierbaum] “Let’s get some real world bench marks to help with the decision process! The Pioneers get shot, the Settlers get the land!”

Yep, I have not yet checked barefeats.com so maybe soon.

I suspect folks are working on padded cases.

Y’all be cool,
Robert A. Ober

[Robert Ober]

[Joseph Owens] “ut here’s a thing – in my market sector, one of the prime deliverables is a closed-captioned HD-tape master. Apple actually fenced themselves OUT of that sector by killing FCP7 in favour of a net-streaming edit app.”

Yeah, folks forget that many big movies are edited on MC 5.5 . And much other work is still on FCP7.

I would be interested in how folks are doing 4K, not UHD, with a legacy Mac Pro.

Thanks,
Robert A. Ober

[Robert Ober]

[jake blackstone] “Well, I guess your sage advice in not so… sagie:-)
The answer to your opinion is right underneath your post…”

If you mean my notalentwannabe notice then I would point out that I mean that partially tongue in cheek. I am a longtime IT Consultant and have followed the production/postproduction world for more than ten years.

Despite what the corporate media may tell you, many folks are slow to upgrade. Especially to a 1.0 product or software. My small business clients still have a significant percentage of folks on Windows XP. My number one client by volume has two servers, one is 5 years old and one is ten years old. As you may know, the economy has not recovered for everyone.

Take it EZ,
Robert

[Jake Blackstone]

I believe you’re in the wrong forum Robert.
You’re talking about the crowd, that has no compunction upgrading their software in the middle of the project. You are talking about the crowd, that always upgrades the software the moment it comes out without testing it or an actual need to upgrade it. You’re talking about the crowd, that rather quickly posts a question, when a simple google search will suffuse or will contract a job, while spending all night watching tutorials on the use of software. Need I go on? As I said Robert, you’re in the wrong place, if you think normal upgrading cycles or clear business planning is in play here. People here will spend $10K and more on the nMP, just to get a single or low double digit increase in performance over the 2012 MP. All that while not many have clear idea on how to even recoup this mostly unneeded expenditure. But have no doubt Robert, spend they will!

[Robert Ruffo]

4K is easy – work in 1/4 res in Premiere/DaVinci, (looks fine for working, paused res is full) render at 4K if needed.

This works like butter on 12 core Mac Pro. Same goes for full 5K. Day in, day out.

[Robert Ober]

[jake blackstone] “But have no doubt Robert, spend they will!”

Jake we are just going to have to get you to come out of your shell and tell us what you think;-)

Robert

[Robert Ober]

[Robert Ruffo] “K is easy – work in 1/4 res in Premiere/DaVinci, (looks fine for working, paused res is full) render at 4K if needed.

This works like butter on 12 core Mac Pro. Same goes for full 5K. Day in, day out.”

Good point.

BTW folks, not sure anybody mentioned that Thunderbolt(2) is slower than PCIe(3).

I would really be interested in a setup like Juan’s translated to the ashcan Mac Pro. For that I am assuming Cuda cards in a TBolt expansion chassis. Let’s don’t forget that other apps besides Resolve want Cuda for certain things.

While I am somewhat on the subject, when are OS and compiler folks going to make it easy for developers so that EVERYTHING uses all the cores/virtual cores and GPU’s?

If anyone still cares, I bought the Dynapower USA NA211A-GPU Netstor at B&H and they are waiting on it to come in. I may even put my GTX570 in it for testing. Resolve Lite won’t see it but I wonder if CS6 something will.

Y’all be cool,
Robert A. Ober
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[Margus Voll]

Expansion question is interesting but we have lost it somewhat in the thread now ? 😉

I’d say depends on a business model it should be reasonable to write off all your tech in year or two so
upgrading after that seems reasonable. (i do not mean full Linux resolve here but mac based Resolve)

Computer gear gets old in 2 years anyway and if you are lucky you can expand your cycle to 4 years or so ?

Ok maybe you could expand it to 6 years but then you definitely will suffer from productivity loss.

Mostly people here talk about MacCan if they can get one for testing or have actual need.
I do not see it as a hobby.

Somewhat this trend will separate movies in the future maybe if tree will not be good expansion solutions for TB.
What i mean is the Can would be sufficient for jobs like current Pro model but for really heavy
use one would like to go to Linux route anyway.

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Margus

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