Andrew Stone
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That’s great. I was hoping it wouldn’t be more than 6 watts. That’s pretty impressive.
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Kristian,
One more question about power matters. What is the power draw of the unit and more specifically do you know if the draw is different between when in standby and when it is actively encoding data?
-Andrew
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Chris the film industry operates like an organism. If there has been a major form of cell disruption, the anti-bodies will remove it.
Goes something like this… Major production houses go through a process of deciding on their workflow, it is based on a myriad of factors. Some financial, others involve risk mitigation, insurance considerations and so on. Once a product or vendor is deemed to be not suitable it goes and the effect will ripple. This has been played out many times over the history of the industry.
You are looking at it from largely a freelancer point of view of which many of us are but the industry rides largely on the business decisions of big production houses and standard industry workflows. FCP will quickly be removed from the workflow simply due to Apple’s decision to not allow future licenses of FCS/FCP.
Apple can choose what it wants to do but so can the film industry and do it will.
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Richard I just finished reading this…
…It really gives a well grounded history of the lead up to this and why we simply should move on and not continue to revisit the collective conclusion that has occurred this week. Apple’s near complete modality shift is not in concert with our business requirements.
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It matters not. Apple in continuing its stance on the discontinuation of FCS 3 has shown to the industry, its approach as a vendor to the film industry is incompatible with the industry’s requirements.
Too much time has now passed on this decision. The industry will move on and Apple will not be a proper player any more.
The push-me-pull-you should stop and we should focus our efforts on bettering our business and getting back to work.
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Thanks for that Chris. Brings a lot of clarity to the matter of GPU utilization. I was only vaguely informed on CUDA. This clears it up.
At this point if I am going to get yet another video card it will be in a new machine. It will probably be a PC though and not so much out of spite from the events of this past week but a realization that came about from reassessing my workflow a few days ago. I quickly realized that all my apps with exception of Logic work well in a PC environment. Some in fact work a lot better on a PC.
I still have to think this through but I will need to upgrade my machine relatively soon and of course there will be costs associated with shifting software licensing. I will also be watching closely how the industry responds to what appears to be a tectonic shift in video post production workflow if Premiere and AVID became accepted editing environments going forward in place of FCP & AVID.
Almost certainly Resolve will become the grading tool of choice for most in the industry who were using Apple Color unless Colorista takes off while everything is in flux.
No one really knows how things will shake down but what we do know is it won’t be the status quo.
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Chris curious about how the NVIDIA GTX285 and NVIDIA cards in general play with other video apps when compared to ATI cards.
Would you say that someone who is going to be moving to a Premiere Pro / Resolve workflow should be looking at an NVIDIA card as opposed to an ATI card?
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There are a few threads on this very subject that go back at least a year. Bob Zelin and the Blackmagic people have been adamant that you follow the recommended PCs or motherboard/graphic card combos.
I know when I asked within the past half year a Blackmagic tech responded with some info that wasn’t on their “minimum requirement” spec sheet.
Given all the issues that have come up with people straying from their recommended parts list, I would recommend following it.
Here is the page from the Blackmagic site. You find it by going to the “Support” section of their website.
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I don’t see why not if it works in the older Mac Pro 2.66 Ghz machine.
Do a google on the 5770 and your machine. You should get the skinny from the search results.
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I assume you are talking about the Mac Pro 2.66 Ghz aka Mac Pro 1,1. If so the ATI 5770 is a very good bet. It is not supported by Apple but more than a few of us have it installed and running without issue. Mine has 3 24″ monitors on the one card. It just works.
One caveat, you will need ONE dual-link DVI adapter if you are running 2 monitors off the display ports that are 24″ or bigger. The dual-link adapter goes onto one of the display ports but only hooks up to one of the monitors.
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