Aristides Tiropolis
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The P5E Deluxe is DDR2 as well.
Vista 32 will support a maximum 4Gb of memory. Only x64 systems support more than 4 gigabytes of memory on windows.
Vista ultimate x64 supports blackmagic and The Adobe CS3 suite.
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Also, the P5E is a DDR2 motherboard and you’re stating a purchase of DDR3 memory
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[Grant Goss] “AS for the OS, Windows XP Pro.”
Why would you buy 8 gigs of memory and install WinXP? Five of them will be left unused.
As for the rest of the system, it’ll handle the ΕΧ-1 footage fine, but you could always go with the i7 architecture, more performance less power consumption, more PCIe slots on X58 mainboards, why not?
You could also add a blu-ray writer for backup…
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[Bill Buchanan] “You’re right, Aristides. We should never complain about anything for which we paid a lot of money when it doesn’t work. BMD, Adobe et al. are doing us a huge favor just letting us purchase their products. And when they don’t work or are not promptly updated or supported, we should be grateful, if not thrilled. Why, it’s almost like being given a job for which there will be no compensation. “Hey, I gave you a job. You want to be paid, too!? Ungrateful cretin!””
So, if there’s a different opinion on a matter, the only course of action is to state an extreme edition of something that was never even actually said…Do you honestly think, that I believe that people shouldn’t complain about anything and say thank you, even when they’re on the right side?
[Bill Buchanan] “I know now that I (and perhaps Brett, too) was way out of line by believing (and complaining) that BMD should have by now issued a CS4-supporting driver. And you–an astute detector of the obvious–were also right that we should just use CS3 for now. Well, I don’t have CS3. So here I sit like the proverbial monkey with a cocoanut. I await further advice, Aristides.”
Who said that anyone is way out of line? I posted an opinion, but I don’t recall being ironic towards you Bill, however I do have a comment since you said you already have CS4 and obviously cannot do anything with it…Although I agree Blackmagic obviously had a slip up when they couldn’t make the CS4 release date, wasn’t it possible to actually know if CS4 was supported prior to having it? Couldn’t you have made a different decision?
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[Brett Howe] “I don’t know about the rest of you, but we are on pretty tight deadlines around here, and the only way we can work effectively, is to communicate. Communicate with our customers, communicate with each other, and manage everybody’s expectations on completion dates. Simple. Everybody’s happy.”
True, communication is important, however customer or internal team communication does not fall in the same category as product support for a specific hardware item, that is currently working.
I for one had always have good communication with the BM team regarding issues I might have had. I do agree on communicating future development and progress but we have seen different approaches from AVID and Apple.[Brett Howe] “I find it hard to believe that BM didn’t have access to Beta SDK’s to get the drivers developed before, or within a few weeks of release. As it stands, companies are selling tunkey systems bundled with CS4 and BM hardware, (HP for example)…and they can’t possibly work without the drivers. That’s not good for anybody.”
No one says they don’t have access to BETA SDK’s and I don’t think they would be giving that kind of an excuse.
I’m with you however on the Bundled systems and the Adobe product website having Blackmagic as ready for CS4.[Brett Howe] “If I had customers out there grumbling about my services, and it’s lack of progress, then I’d chuck more people on it, and pay the overtime, until the issue was sorted. Goodwill does have a value.”
Well this is half true I think, having had a past in IT I know that post production is not the same thing as programming and some times “chucking” more people on a project actually may create more problems and slow things down. More resources never hurt, but one cannot put it that simply, its more complicated in my view.
Cheers
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What is really stopping any professional from working on CS3 and Blackmagic cards, right here, right now?
It’s not like there’s no support for Vista or i.e x64, but even then there’s always “the now” working solution suggested by the company which one should follow in order for him/her to work on a project, that’s the whole point isn’t it?
They said they’re working on supporting the new version, it’s not like CS4 is out for 6 months or anything. There really is no need to go crazy right now, it will happen soon.
For me the most important aspects are the proper OMF, AAF support, RED support and the reset TC issues to be fixed. Oh! and 720p 25p Out, Support!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Some day I hope…
However we do know that we can more or less work right now with things as they are…I don’t think programmers will do work faster, by complaining here…
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Q[Michael Uribe] “Also, what is the difference between the BM HD Extreme 2 and I guess a non “2” board.”
The difference is mainly the existence of HDMI ports.
[Michael Uribe] “I’ll also need to tap into another PCIe slot for the soon to be future external disk array for highspeed storage.”
This mainboard has three pcie ports, none of them are x1 so it looks like you won’t have problems installing a fibre channel or eSATA card in your system.
Bu the way the X58 chipset on desktop mainboards looks interesting, allowing more memory and pcie cards…
Take a look at this one for instance:https://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=2957
However one always takes chances when using “enthusiast” motherboards so it is always a risk…
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What is your budget?
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In what resolution are the targa files?
There are many ways to deal with this…
You can always do the CC on AE and Color Finesse.
Do it on eyeon Fusion (compatible with BM)
Do it on Combustion (compatible with BM)
On any other pc compositor without preview from BM
Faster stuff on Premiere CS3-4 and three way CC
Or even photoshop for each file and using a batch processThere are many ways, faster and slower ones…
Your final CC can always be put to digibeta from an uncompressed .avi or .mov with media express..Or inside Premiere…
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I guess I should let you know that cards like The BM Extreme or AJA Kona/Xena are not “renderers” but cards dedicated on providing an HD Workflow on an editor or compositor… Which means: HD-SDI inputs-outputs, Serial deck control, video/audio-analog out/in etc…
The Card has realtime features but these are limited to supporting proper “video streams” to put a very generic term…
Functionality on programs like AE or Combustion are there for previewing (frame buffer) in professional equipment or ingesting material…
After Effects and all other compositors for that matter, always require CPU speed and memory in order to render… The better the cpu/more ram the quicker the render
Real time support on this level and on i.e NLE’s has for some time been the issue of the software itself, CPU/RAM and now all the more lately, the graphics card and its processor…