Andrew Richards
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First, think past RAID arrays. They are not often the best archive platforms for 100s of TBs and up. Look at LTO-5 Libraries as well. That is assuming by “archive” you mean something that you are not editing from or accessing with a lot of frequency. I hear some people using “archive” as a euphemism for “big centralized storage”.
That said, seek help from a large-scale storage integrator. There really isn’t a single product to solve your dilemma. It will take a number of products working in concert, aligned with your workflow, to get you where you want to be.
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[Bret Williams] “And X doesn’t play with others.”
10.0 didn’t, but doesn’t the XML round-tripping with Resolve, XML out to Smoke, and AAF out (though via X2Pro) count for something?
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[Glen Hurd] “Most people will recognize that you can make a better living with a truck than with a compact, if you can find the work that needs that truck.”
Well yeah, that’s the whole point of the analogy. Work is the case where you need a truck. The last time PCs were used predominantly for work, DOS was the dominant OS. The PCs as Trucks analogy holds that the vast majority of PC use cases for the vast majority of PC users can readily be tackled on an iPad. Specialized work requires a conventional PC just as the UPS guy or the tow truck guy drives a specialized vehicle.
[Glen Hurd] “I can imagine, before long, we’ll be editing for laser projectors with holographic projection using content acquired from 3 laser-scanned sources and 6 synced cameras, using computers that can reconstruct geometry and texture the live action in realtime for a 180 degree holographic display. “
Yes, the tiny handful of people crating the bleeding edge of entertainment media (or doing aerodynamic simulations, or designing skyscrapers, or creating blockbuster video games, or decoding a genome, or capturing an MRI) will need powerful, bleeding edge, specialized computers that the average joe would find ridiculously overspec’d and overpriced for their web browsing, Facebooking, tweeting, photo tweaking and sharing, email sending, and blog (or forum) posting. Just like today.
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[Scott Sheriff] “It’s a ’68 Parcel Delivery van. Grumman made the aluminum body, and it’s on a Ford 1 ton commercial chassis.”
Cool ride, but hardly a common one. Do/did you know anyone else tooling around in three-decades-old light commercial vehicles as daily drivers? It’s got to be really rare. Like millions to one ratio rare. Easily rare enough that I stand by my generalization.
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What make/model is that?
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[Gary Huff] “Adobe really dropped the ball here. They should have been as forward thinking as Apple was in releasing their apps on the App Store, so that they could follow a quick patching schedule like FCPX.”
Yeah, Apple tried to float release schedule improvements as the big advantage of the App Store. Of course that is baloney since we’ve had downloadable patches for years. What isn’t baloney is what they get out of the App Store EULA, and that is being allowed to incrementally add major features without having to release a major version update. That point was extracted during one of the NAB private briefings (I forget who coaxed that out of them, Oliver maybe?). There are Sarbanes-Oxley rules about how public companies are allowed to account for and deliver significant feature updates to existing products (as I understand it), and by starting over with FCPX on the App Store, Apple gets a clean slate without the baggage of prior EULAs for their traditional-channel software. Maybe they could write a new EULA for a new box version, I’m not an expert on this stuff, but I recall reading that licensing flexibility was a big factor in their exclusive App Store distribution strategy.
If Adobe starts adding in major features in minor updates to CS6, then sod it, the whole App Store advantage trope is bollocks.
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[Clint Wardlow] “So you think Apple will make an announcement for their future in high-end computing this summer? Or just give us a yay or nay on Mac Pro? “
I think they have to, they can’t just keep making the current one forever. I think there is something coming, and I agree with Craig it probably won’t be called the Mac Pro or be a large tower form factor.
[Clint Wardlow] “I am kind of curious to see if they follow Craig’s vision of a modular design or just beef up the all-in-one model.”
I know what I want it to be, mostly spec-wise, but I honestly can’t settle on a pet theory. Could be anything from the purported iMac Pro to something like a much larger Mac mini. I’m as anxious as everyone to find out.
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[Brian Mulligan] “OK. Get me a computer that is “Like a ROCK.” or “Built Ford Tough” – Let others run a computer that’s like a Prius.”
My read on the “Truck” analogy is more along the lines of a commercial vehicle than a light pickup. People drive F-150s as if they were cars all the time. Nobody has a box truck as a daily driver. When I imagine the trucks in Jobs’ D8 analogy, I think of these:
Totally configurable, commercial grade, can be flexible or specialized, but not something you’ll drive out to dinner. If the iPad is a compact car, laptops are the light pickup trucks.Best,
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[Clint Wardlow] “The problem is that I don’t see any indication from Apple that we are going to see either in the near future.”
How near? One way or the other we’ll have some kind of answer this summer. Apple can’t keep sleepwalking with the old (current) Mac Pro as Intel phases out the manufacture of its guts.
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Somebody call the analogy police!