Alexander Higgins
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I heard that the option used to be in there, like the option on the KONA3, but Blackmagic got rid of it, but they might put the option back in?
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Look through this site.
It should have everything you want to play with, also they sell a LUT conversion tool.
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FlamePremium 2011 is still a 130k piece of software w/o hardware, honestly they tout it as this crazy savings, since you get 3 packages in one, but you can only use one at a time.
It is a sweet package, none the less, but I think Lustre is pretty UN-FLEXABLE in the modern DI world. I only takes big-endian DPX, maybe some other still image formats, but nothing else.
I mean about 160k gets you a decent station, but still need to build a good work station around that.If SMOKE for MAC has BATCH, that would be the sinker.
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I have tested it throughly, it is fine, has some cool features, but its 40k. If DaVinci is 1k, and Speedgrade is 40k, Speedgrade isn’t 40x better than Resolve. And for 40k you would buy Resolve and get a nice Grade1 monitor. Not to make any Iridas fans angry here, but I know a guy who spent 40k years ago on Speedgrade to jump ship to a 1k Resolve and they don’t use their 40k speedgrade anymore. The industry is out of control right now.
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It will slow the memory architecture 15 to 20%. Which is a hard thing to nail down and benchmark. From there the slower memory will slow down DaVinci since the memory is slower, but again, its hard to benchmark. So its a more complicated math equation than just 15% slower, so I am not going to try and guess the actually number for DaVinci.
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As of a little while ago SMOKE can monitor out of the secondary DVI port, you can also use a DVI to SDI converter if you wanted, I think Miranda and few others have that. Still a new feature. On that note the FILMLIGHT BASELIGHT uses DVI to SDI for all their stuff. They don’t even use SDI hardware, or at least the model I looked at.
Anway, Right now my station was at 6GB of RAM and it wouldn’t even let me render an AE comp without S#*TTING THE BED.
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Well. Autodesk Smoke, The Foundry NUKE, After Effects, Cinema4D to name a few eat up RAM. I use all of them from time to time.
I finally talked with People at APPLE and technical software people about the RAM issue. To my understanding it isn’t so much the amount as much as it is the SLOT CONFIG.
Basically the way the 5.1 MacPro’s INTEL’s memory architecture works is that if you use more than 6 slots then it decreases the memory efficiency by 15 to 20 percent.
So If you use only 6 slots, 3 x Pairs, whatever the size you are fine, once you get into 4 x pairs, it slows down by 15 to 20 percent. In terms of weather the amount is 6GB, 12GB, 24GB etc or 8GB, 16GB, 32GB that is what is preferred, but in no way that benchmark-able or testable.
According to my understanding, it is really really hard for Blackmagic to make any concrete benchmarks for these configs. A Apple MacPro is the closent thing to a turnkey in the over the counter PC world, but it still is far from a singe hardware vendor. There are too many differences among MacPro configs, memory vendors, HD vendors and what not to get a good clean benchmark.
To address the memory issue in general, I tend to disagree with anyone who things memory is not that important?? Its the 300,000x faster then a hard drive and any modern app eats RAM like a dickens. Its also the single most inexpensive way to increase the speed of your computer.
RAM=IMPORTANT=POWER=AWESOME
All that being said I am going with 3 pairs of 8GB DIMMS, so 48GB of RAM.
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I actually went to the store and was looking at the nVIDIA GeForce GT 120, and I was like, this card is so wimpy, I don’t want to use it as my main GUI card. It would kind of set me back for any other apps that don’t recognize the 4800. So I looked at the specs for the 8800 and realized its pretty much the same card only better and faster.
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What about a GeForce 8800 and a QUADRO FX 4800, they both only have one power cord, and I have been using this config without problem.
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Whats your setup?
CURRENT SYSTEM.
MacPro5,1, 8×2,4 Ghz, 6GB Ram, Quadro FX4800, Decklink HD Extreme 3D , MAXX EVO 2k.I will keep testing, but its almost like its playing in fast forward at times then really scratchy..