Andrew Richards
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[Michael Gissing] “NVIDIA is a deal breaker for me and I’m sure many Resolve users will be torn.”
The PCIe slots will fit NVIDIA cards just fine, the problem is the lapsed driver support recently. The ball is in NVIDIA’s court now to resume releasing drivers for macOS. Maybe with a proper Mac Pro on the horizon they will see enough renewed demand for them.
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TB3 is the best shot yet at a fully realized external GPU pipe, given its bandwidth capability. Indeed, even the PC gaming world is embracing the idea.
I just felt someone needed to speak up and point out that however tantalizing this artist’s rendering is, it has some rather gaping technical faults in the design that make it impractical to actually build. I mean, just add up all the PCI lanes required by this concept art and you can see that it runs on unicorns and fairy dust.
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Too bad this would still require bespoke GPUs, even if the form factor is standard length PCIe. Otherwise you have to resort to something like this:
“One of the main advantages of Thunderbolt™ 3 is its ability to carry a video signal, but as X99 platforms don’t have a GPU integrated in the CPU, the Thunderbolt controller needs to link with a discrete graphics card. In order to solve this conundrum, GIGABYTE designed the GA-X99P-SLI with a DisplayPort input on the back I/O allowing users to pair their system to a monitor with a Type-C connector (the required cables to connect the graphics card to Thunderbolt controller are bundled with the board).”
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[Charlie Austin] “FWIW, this release is very stable. I updated while waiting for a client to call back. All good. :-)”
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[Mark Suszko] “So, Closed Captioning can be added in Compressor when you publish. But where do the .scc files come from? (crosses fingers, looks for a plug-in in FCPX that generates this).”
That’s nothing new, Compressor has been supporting that since before FCPX came out. A plugin that does accurate speech recognition for CC output would be a holy grail type solution, but in the meantime there are many services you can upload an MP4 to and get back an .scc file.
[Mark Suszko] “This bit about needing a vendor/content delivery network to publish to iTunes… surely, you don’t need that just to make a master file, right?”
Did you read the whitepaper?
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This looks like a hell of an update. Like maybe FCP5 big.
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Try doing an “Apple Devices” export to .m4v and just renaming the extension to .mp4. The .m4v extension is a technical synonym for .mp4 that can optionally support Apple’s FairPlay DRM. Unprotected .m4v files are functionally identical to .mp4 save for the extension. Support for playback of .mp4 has much more to do with the hardware of the Android device than the software version since the decoding is handled by the SOC in hardware, just as it is on iOS devices. I’d expect any Android device of the last 3 or so years to be able to support the same level of 720p decoding that you will get with the 720p “Apple Devices” setting in Compressor. That same .mp4 will also be perfectly happy playing on iOS devices. 1080p support would just be limited to slightly newer, slightly higher-end ‘droids.
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Andy -
I wouldn’t bank on there ever being aftermarket GPUs for the new Mac Pro. The safest bet is to spec the D700 and upgrade the RAM later since you know for certain that is an option.
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Time Machine is included with OS X, and is very easy to use. CCC is a paid app ($40), and is also relatively easy to use but is also necessarily more complex to set up than TM. There is a lot of documentation at Bombich’s site you should read if you go that route. If you want to be able to boot from your local backup, use CCC. If you only want a safety net for boot drive failures, TM will work, but restoring consists of booting from an OS X installer partition (or DVD if we’re talking about Snow Leopard) and telling the installer to include a restoration from your Time Machine volume. TM has the added benefit of being a granular searchable backlog of your data that can save you from accidental saves or deletes of individual files.
You can also use both CCC and TM together by partitioning your external drive to have a 260 GB partition to be a target for CCC, and the rest partitioned for use by TM. You’ll only want to have CCC run overnight, and if you do use both on the same physical drive be sure to set TM not to run when CCC will be running.
The simplest, nearly zero configuration backup is just Time Machine. It isn’t a bootable backup, but it is a backup you can fully revoker with in the event of a hardware failure on your boot drive. If all the above fiddling sounds like a rathole, just use Time Machine.
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Andy -
Time Machine will not give you a bootable volume as a backup, only a volume you can restore from. If you want a bootable backup, that is Carbon Copy Cloner. If you find Time Machine is too aggressive during work hours and is robbing your workstation of I/O when you need it most, here are some ways to control when Time Machine is active. I like to keep an offsite backup as well, and BackBlaze gives you unlimited space for any given Mac’s backup on their servers for a very reasonable price.
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Andy
