Bernard Newnham
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If you type “Quadro Geforce” into Google, there’s an NVidia technical document that tells you the advantages of the (expensive) Quadro series. There’s pages about 3DsMax and AutoCAD etc, but not a word about video. So perhaps my first reply is right after all.
This computer is running a GTX460 and happily runs multi-layered FX in real time. Mind you, I’m using Edius these days.
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Probably –
https://www.geforce.co.uk/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-690
– “…the fastest graphics card ever built…”
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“My problem with the latter two is that I REALLY dislike PCs. Of course I am open-minded about what’s best for my future but just the thought of going PC makes me queasy.”
Isn’t marketing wonderful? Someone else who hasn’t quite realised that a Mac and a PC are the same thing, just with different operating systems.
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I see that Digital Rebellion are looking for bete testers –
https://www.digitalrebellion.com/blog/posts/our_crossplatform_future.htmlBernie
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Absolutely nothing
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“Yes Bernard, to the original question. My small facility is switching to PC and CS6. Same reasoning. I am building two new PCs for a much cheaper price than staying with Mac. Plus the price and availability of up to date NVIDIA graphics cards and lots of internal PCIe slots. “
The only reason I’ve continued to watch and sometimes contribute to this forum is my continual amazement at the customer loyalty to a company that has no loyalty to those same customers. At 65, and now working at a university part time, I don’t have to make a living from this stuff any more – I just need to keep up so I can pass the knowledge on. But I’ve never ever had loyalty to any company whose products I’ve used, only to the one which pays me. If it works, buy it – if it doesn’t, look elsewhere.
The switch to PCs at this point is a no-brainer. That doesn’t mean that it’s a permanent answer, but if you need to be up with the pack, or preferably ahead, there’s no point in locking yourself into a customer base where products are limited and mostly out-dated. Buy a PC, use it. After a few months, open it up and put in a bigger disc, or memory, or the latest CUDA card. Repeat ad infinitum. The university does this with hundreds of machines. And now that you’re in the big world of the PC, look around at the huge range and choice of software. If the answer in 2012 is Adobe, then fine – but if the answer in 2014 is Bloggs, then just switch. No waiting for one supplier to get their act together, or in this case, not.
So – who’s going to be standing in the queue outsider the Apple shop for a iPhone 5. Sad, sad people….
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So – lots of replies, but no actual conclusions.
From my POV, with lots of years as a producer client, and a few years of being producer/editor/cameraman etc, if I were starting a small facility, I’d forget the hardware for a while and find the best editors for the price. Then I’d ask them about the hardware, and take a consensus. But – if I had to do it myself in 2012, I’d go for Adobe on PCs. PCs because there’s always an upgrade, and Adobe because it has currently the best integration with almost everything.
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“We’ve been able to shoot and edit broadcast video on laptops and small cameras for 12 or 13 years”
I lectured around the place for several years for the Royal Television Society on lightweight production, then characterised by the VX1000 etc. FCP1 came out and I added a Mac laptop to the gear, and at the end of the lecture opened it up and said “and now we can edit in the field on a laptop in broadcast quality”. It used to produce an amazing stir, and one man in Dublin so disbelieved me he stormed out.
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“Shot on DSLR (visible in one of the African classroom shots) – this shows the value of being able to travel light and still make sure you’ve got what you need to make the project you want – without dragging a flypack all over the planet.”
Though I’m happy to be corrected, I have a feeling this wasn’t such a lightweight operation. Shot on DSLR it might have been, but if you saw one, we’re on a camera crew of 4 or 5. Then there’s sound, makeup, lighting (reflectors?), transport, production…..
A pity that the mimed voice sounds like it was in the studio (of course) and she’s in the bush with no effects. Bad sound on the PTC at the end.
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At the university where I teach they have a policy of rolling updates to their PCs, so asking for some Macs to run FCP would be not only taking them out of their comfort zone, but upping their costs per seat by some way. Back in the days when FCP looked like it was going to take over the world, we were working on persuading the cash people to buy a few because we needed to teach for the real world. I was a loud voice in this.
Not a chance now, they’ll stick to Adobe, because some of the software are world standards – Photoshop and Illustrator – and PPro could be going in that direction, and in any case hasn’t gone off at a tangent to the mainstream of track based editing. The Adobe education bundle is a huge bargain – as it’s intended to be – and the uni won’t get any arguments from me for sticking to it. They save loadsmoney not buying the Macs, too, and the area is more flexible for it.
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