[Carmi Weinzweig]

[Lance Bachelder] “That article is 6 months old and the build choices were not very smart – for instance there would be no reason to choose a SSD instead of an M.2 drive – you can get the Samsung EVO 960 M.2 for under $200 and it will give you the same drive speed the iMac is getting probably because it’s the same thing inside the Apple?”

Really? I cannot find the 1TB EVO 960 Pro for less than $619, a bit more than $200.

I also cannot find anyone who makes a 4TB NVMe M.2 drive (or for that matter a 4TB EVO Pro version in any form factor).

I think the sweet spot for the iMac is 64GB, 10-Core, 2TB system, 16GB Vega 64 for $7,999.99, but I am not sure if the extra 1TB of SSD is worth it. I expect to use it with a 10Gb/s NAS with 48TB of RAID-Z2 storage, so 1TB might be enough.

[Carmi Weinzweig]

We bought both Affinity Photo and Pixelmator Pro and both seem great so far. At $60 each on the Mac App Store, buying both did not seem like that big a deal. We will see if one wins out as we move forward. We really like the convenience of license management that App Store purchases give us.

What I find most interesting is that both companies are building full publishing suites. Affinity Photo (Ps), and Affinity Designer (Illustrator) are out now, Affinity Publisher (InDesign) was announced for 2018. Pixelmator Pro’s Vectormator Pro (Illustrator) companion is due next year (and they have teased an InDesign competitor as well). Both are selling not renting their software. In addition, MacPhun’s Lightroom competitor is supposed to add Digital Asset Management next year and they seem to directly be targeting Adobe in their ads. I am curious what has changed that has led to this direct competition.

Affinity has a great iPad version and Pixelmator Pro’s iPad version is due next year. Cross platform between Windows and MacOS is less important to us right now than having iOS/MacOS compatibility, so we look forward to Pixelmator Pro’s iPad release.

These new Photoshop competitors along with Final Cut X 10.3, Resolve, and Fusion make it seem possible to have a reasonable non-Adobe workflow.

[Carmi Weinzweig]

Noah –
Thanks for the information. I am not clear if you meant that one would not need Sync-N-Link if one used Key Clips or if you meant that Sync-N-Link is not compatible with Key Clips?

/carmi

[Carmi Weinzweig]

Thanks Craig! I finally got a response from Magn (seems like my mail didn’t get through). The KeyFlow Pro app needs to be in the Applications folder for it to work correctly.

Moved it there and all is fine. 🙂

[Carmi Weinzweig]

So if I have (and use) Movie*Slate for logging, I do not need Shot Notes X? Can it integrate with Sync-N-Link?