Andrew Richards
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Media, yes. Libraries, no (same as it was for Events and Projects in prior versions). You can only put Libraries on local HFS+ or on “SAN Locations” (which can be Xsan volumes or NFS mounts) as FCPX filters by filesystem type to reject anything other than those three. But it is very nice that you can now set an ingest destination anywhere (including AFP and SMB shares) that is independent of where the Library is stored.
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Working for me in early testing, but I did manage to get it to lock up once when trying to use it as a local “cluster”.
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[Kevin Patrick] “Is the flash storage upgradable? I didn’t think it was.”
It potentially is. While OWC have built SSD sticks for the MacBooks that used SATA busses for their storage, what we have not seen yet is a pure PCIe third party SSD upgrade (that would be for the late 2013 MacBooks, though OWC says they are working on it). So for now it is only a potentiality, as that looks like a standard 4-lane PCIe slot on the new Mac Pro to my eyes. It even seems to have room for a wider (and thus higher capacity) module.
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[Gary Huff] “Well, crap. Hopefully the output has been improved. Never have cared for the quality of Compressor’s output, especially its scaler, yikes.”
In fairness, the 32-bittedness is to permit compatibility with the legacy formats it still supports. I’m not sure why it also spawns 32-bit processes to handle what had been 64-bit jobs in the last version. I’m also not sure it matters with respect to performance.
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[Brett Sherman] “The question is which is better – upgrading from 32 to 64 gb or going D500 to D700.”
D700 for sure. RAM is user-replaceable but it is not clear if the GPUs can be.
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[Gary Huff] “I wonder if it’s 64-bit now too?”
32-bit so far in my limited testing. I tried to get it to spawn 64-bit subprocesses by choosing what should be AVFoundation tasks (ProRes HQ to ProRes LT or ProRes to H.264 for Apple Devices) and still got 32-bit subprocesses. Qmasterd is (and has been) 64-bit, but it does not seem to be called upon even when enabling clustering and making a “cluster” out of the local machine.
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Heh. The price jump to get from 6 cores to 8 or 12 is so significant that we really do need to see bench tests of real world tasks to make an informed purchasing decision. Here’s a good rundown of what the tradeoffs are based solely on the CPU specs. How well-parallelized an app is will directly impact whether those 8 and 12 core Mac Pros are worth the $1500 and $3000 respective price premiums despite their lower clock speeds.
Does BareFeets have the cash to buy three or four different Mac Pros at varying spec levels to test?
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[Walter Soyka] “I’m equally happy to see FxPlug 3 with support for custom UIs.”
This feature should allow developers of color correction plugins to do three wheel CC UIs what aren’t a hack. I also like the API for custom sharing plugins.
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Just tried putting a new Library on an AFP share and got a warning that storage needs to be “Local or a SAN Location”, so my assumption till someone proves otherwise is that the same filesystem restrictions are in place: only HFS+J, Xsan, and NFS will work.
EDIT: However, in reading Philip Hodgetts’ post about 10.1, ingest can now be sent to any mounted storage and simply linked to the Library and its attendant Events and Projects. This opens up very nice opportunities to optimize storage while using FCPX for ingest. Libraries can be put in high IOPS storage like SSD while ingested media is routed to pretty much anything that has the pipes for it. This is a good thing.
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[Scott Clements] “I can’t believe video editors do a clean install every time a new OS comes out. There’s so much software to reinstall. You could spend 2-3 days doing just this.”
Years ago, I used to support a shop full of FCP workstations and I would do this for new OS releases, but I would also have a DeployStudio server that would take care of a full reimage with apps in about an hour. Building that image on a test machine would indeed take about a day!
I’ve been upgrading my own Macs in place since Lion and I think that’s perfectly safe now, but I’m sure old habits will persist in post shops.
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Andy