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[Oliver Peters] “Just to be clear, when a PR blurb says an “award-winning Hollywood film”, we are talking about theatrical and distributed by one of the major studios”

It was released by Netflix. I think that most people would consider them a major studio these days. Also, I only listed the one of its awards, but to be clear, here are the rest:

Awards:

AFI Docs Festival Audience Award: Best Documentary Feature Film
Black Film Critics Circle Awards: Best Documentary
Peabody Awards: Documentary and Education
Women Film Critics Circle Awards: Josephine Baker Award.

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[Shane Ross] “Well, typically when we hear “Hollywood movie,” that means something that has been released theatrically…in theaters. “

What Happened, Miss Simone? was nominated for an Oscar. That means it met these rules:

An eligible documentary film is defined as a theatrically released nonfiction motion picture dealing creatively with cultural, artistic, historical, social, scientific, economic or other subjects. It may be photographed in actual occurrence, or may employ partial reenactment, stock footage, stills, animation, stop-motion or other techniques, as long as the emphasis is on fact and not on fiction.

Sounds to me like it meets your definition.

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Took me all of 5 minutes to find this list:

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[Ronny Courtens] “As to upgrading old computers: I have never found this good business. In the days that I ran two post houses we always completely renewed our Mac machine park every 2 or 3 years.”

We usually keep until 2.5 years, then sell while AppleCare is still active. Always got us a higher price (as they knew the machine really worked).

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[kingsley asumadu] “I need your advice on my next purchase, basically I’m looking to get a tablet (iPad Pro or the latest surface pro). My goal is to be able to use it to create content with Adobe cc in conjunction with my iMac.”

To answer this, we really have to understand what you mean by “in conjunction with my iMac”. AeroPad and other apps like it enable one to use the iPad (or iPad Pro) as a display/input device for a Mac. Several of our designers have dropped their Cintiqs in favor of 12″ iPad Pros and Apple Pencils.

If, on the other hand, you want to work directly on the iPad, you need to decide if the Adobe CC companion apps will fill your needs. As has been mentioned, the primary CC apps do not currently run native on the iPad. Illustrator and Photoshop both have good companion apps that provide quite a lot of functionality, and there are good non-Adobe competitors for them. I do not think many of the other CC apps have great companions (other than Prelude live logger as a companion to Premiere Pro during production).

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[Bob Zelin] “I think that the bottom line here, is that NOT ONE SINGLE PERSON on this forum (even Robin) will pay $17,000 for an Apple computer in 2017. Period. “

Fortunately, Apple is not asking anyone to do so. ☺

The top configuration 18 core/128 GB/Vega 64 w 16GB/4TB NVMe drive is $14,000, with the single most expensive part being the 4TB NVMe upgrade at $2,800. The GPU upgrade is only $600.

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[Shawn Miller] “I have a water cooled, dual 10 core workstation with acoustic treatment in the case – even after an hour or so under full CPU load, I can’t hear it. The fans in my laptops are louder during encoding tasks… just sayin’. ☺”

Nice. ☺

How much did it cost? How many drives do you have in the case? I built a FreeBSD/FreeNAS box for a friend as a Plex server with many giant, slow-speed fans and it is quite quiet (sits in the the living room), but does not have any GPUs.

My experience is that I build machines because I want a specific set of components, but they rarely come out less expensive than a similar machine from HP or Dell. I do not upgrade CPUs, because the risk of frying the machine doing so is not worth the speed increase to me. 🙂

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[Shane Ross] “The monitor isn’t 5K…as was pointed out. And I already have monitors, and if I want new ones, I can get new ones. And if I want to swap them out, I can.”

What P3 5K monitors do you have?

You have stated that the monitor is not 5k. According to the specs on the machine, the display resolution is 5120×2880, how is that not 5K?

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[Bob Zelin] “once again – he mentions that it’s $4999. His configuration is NOT $4999 – it’s much more expensive
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The CPU upgrade in his machine costs $800 and the GPU upgrade is $600. Those are the two that would have the most impact on performance. For an extra $800 one could also upgrade the RAM to 64GB. Moving to 128GB of RAM is quite pricey ($2,400 over the base).

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[Shane Ross] “That, and the ability to swap out processors (to updated ones), swap out GPU, add cards for more ports, add many internal hard drives…makes switching to windows pretty enticing.
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I have built many machines over the years, and I have never upgraded the CPU after the machine was built (as any meaningful CPU upgrade also requires a new motherboard). I have on occasion upgraded the RAM, but even that has been rare. You also do not consider that those other machines will be much louder than the iMac Pro. I would much rather have a quieter machine connected via 10Gb Ethernet to a server with more disk space, rather than have that all in my work space.