Bernard Newnham
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[Jeremy Garchow] “[Bernard Newnham] “Mostly tape, XDCam usually”
So….which one is it?
Mostly tape?
Or XDcam usually?”
Sorry – should have written H instead of X – HDCam – slip of the keyboard.
Bernie
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[Craig Seeman] “It’s Xeon (I suspect) with Thunderbolt. That’s not in any PC.”
[Steve Connor] “[Bernard Newnham] “which runs a different, Unix based operating system”
Which a lot of us like
[Bernard Newnham] “the new one will be like the old one but faster.
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Let’s hope so”I’m not that knowledgeable about i7s and Xeons, so I’ve looked around. It seems that Xeons are the fastest of the Core i processors on test – out of the “top bin” apparently. They are locked – no overclocking – and support ecc memory. They’re then marketed for servers, machines that run on full 24/7. People who’ve tested them say there’s little difference between them and Core i7 apart from ecc support, but they cost lots more. If you really want Thunderbolt, Asus sell a PCIe card, but generally people don’t seem to.
Maybe I should go into business building to spec PCs. I can make one that goes faster than any MacPro, and when the new chips come out, match any future PC variant just by buying the same stuff. I could even put them in shiny boxes and make them “reassuringly expensive” as Stella Artois used to say. Buy your own OSX of course – don’t want to get sued.
Bernie
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[Craig Seeman] “It’s Xeon (I suspect) with Thunderbolt. That’s not in any PC.”
I think that may be because current Xeons are quite old. The PC market changes by the day, so if Asus or whoever think they can make money out of some new Xeon and Thunderbolt they’ll build the boards pretty much instantly.
Bernie
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “only to watch you all scrabbling around trying to keep it alive. It’s.. entertaining.”
Yes – I keep coming back for the same reason.
Someone the other day was singing the praises of the Quantel Harry three strip editor. I don’t know if it was good or not. It may have been the best ever – I never operated it, just had people do stuff for me. Whatever – where is it now? The world stuck with Avid style timelines, and that was that. I think the same will happen here.
And I don’t understand what people are on about when they talk about “what Apple will do with the MacPro replacement”. It’s a PC for goodness sake, which runs a different, Unix based operating system. Unless they go ARM (good for my shares in the company), the new one will be like the old one but faster.
If they bother.
Bernie
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The answer from my university is that they bought educational licences and Abode helped them with the installation, but that was all. They don’t have any on-going maintenance contract.
Bernie
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It says on Tonymac – “Sapphire is presenting a HD 7950 at the Cebit fair for MacPro Computer in a “Mac like” design:”
I think that just means they put a flashy cover plate on it. (Not a ‘Flashy’ cover plate, obviously.)
For those who must have a MacPro, Tonymac also has –
https://www.tonymacx86.com/333-building-customac-buyer-s-guide-february-2013.htmlBernie
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I’ve asked, as I don’t know. Please stand by….
B
Bernie
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Any editing system is – by and large – the right editing system, as mostly editing is in the head. Personally I would keep to mainstream professionally used software and that means mostly Avid or PPro at the moment, though Edius is also a good choice. We use Premiere at our university, as the educational cost of the software is low.
Bernie
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“You’re not being pedantic, your being a name dropper. I’m being pedantic.”
That’s the trouble with working for the BBC all your life – you forget that sensitivity to name dropping.
Bernie
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Not quite, but I have to be a touch pedantic –
Waterloo Bridge at sunset.
I was walking across once and stopped to admire the view. After a while I realised that another chap was doing the same a few feet away. He was Richard Harris, who, it seemed, lived at the Savoy near the north end of the bridge.
Bernie
