Alex Gerulaitis
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I wouldn’t expect app-specific benchmarks until it starts shipping.
Mac Pro’s limits of six phys cores, AMD-only GPUs and 32GB memory make it an unlikely competitor for a tricked out T7600 or Z820 series though. There’s not any secret sauce in the Mac Pro that’d make it faster than a similarly configured PC – and certainly not the one with more memory, faster CPUs, better suited GPUs (for Adobe CC).
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Thanks Bob,
From what I hear:
– certain codecs in QuickTime are broken and this is a huge problem for some
– NFS is working for most people. “NFS here with no apparent issues. Speed and stability are both fine. However, we’re not using NFS Manager or automount but /etc/fstab instead” (this comes from the CIO of South Park Studios – I hope they forgive me for the attribution)
– “Adobe CS 5.5 MS, Nuke, and Autodesk Maya 20[12-14] all seem fine with no obvious glitches in a generic CGI production workflow under 10.9” (this is again from South Park)
– SMB2 can be quite problematic
– SMB2: “using CIFS:// rather than SMB:// for mounts (which forces SMB 1)” works for some as a workaround
– SMB2: fails with Synology
– Smoke: possible problems, one incident of “Had to back out of Mavericks as Smoke didn’t like too much”— Alex Gerulaitis | Systems Engineer | DV411 – Los Angeles, CA
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[Todd Kopriva] “The OpenGL features work fine on the Intel GPUs.”
Got it, thanks Todd.
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Mac Mini with its onboard Intel graphics is not compatible with GPU acceleration in AE, regretfully, and there isn’t much that can be done about it w/o changing the computer.
— Alex Gerulaitis | Systems Engineer | DV411 – Los Angeles, CA
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Thanks Bob,
So for now, 10.9 is a no-no if you run either NFS or SMB2 or both?
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[Blake Carlile] “Hmm interesting thought, but would Grass Valley really do multiple conversions? Analogue In > Digital conversion > Analogue conversion > Analogue Out?”
Great point! Probably not. The converter is fairly expensive but not that expensive.
[Blake Carlile] “Does “E-to-E” stand for “End-to-End?””
Sorry: “electronic to electronic”. Many tape decks had “E-E” (mostly broadcast methink) buttons so that you could switch between inputs vs. read-after-record to compare quality, audio levels, etc. (See “Tape EE button” here.)
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[Blake Carlile] “There’s always a few frames of delay when a conversion happens Analogue > Digital, but Does anyone know if the RCA Anologue input to RCA Analogue output has any type of processing? “
I don’t know but it should given that it should preview the results of conversion (which is what introducing the delay), not E-to-E straight pass-through.
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It’s actually strange that Kona 3 does it. Both Decklink 4K Extreme and Kona 3G list cross-conversion options as 720 to 1080 and back but not anything 4K. Seems that 4K can’t be downconverted on either, at least according to specs?
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Don’t have an answer but curious if you tried the usual tricks: trash Pr settings, new project file (same sequences), fresh user ID on the same system.
Also, when you render parts individually, does the memory usage balloon like that as well?
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Agreed, this is interesting and should work for the purpose.
The question is though whether Mavericks TCP/IP stack is well optimized to handle TB speeds. I think this is what DRW meant. AFAIK it’s not (well optimized) – one of the reasons companies like Small-Tree are in business with their 10GbE Mac-specific solutions.
— Alex Gerulaitis | Systems Engineer | DV411 – Los Angeles, CA