[Christian Betong]

Would we need the modified EFI version of this now with the new Nvidia drivers?:
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1330964

At least if you use the 580 as a secondary (not for gui) GPU for resolve.

If you use Premiere or other software that utilize the CUDA of the main GPU this is great, but I cant see how this would help those using Resolve on mac.

Christian Berg-Nielsen
Sement&Betong
postproduction
Norway

[Christian Betong]

It could be that the 470 wont perform properly with os x power management.

I had to do the following to get full performance with the 470:

Go to System/Library/Extensions

Drag “AppleGraphicsPowerManagement.kext” onto desktop.

This will make a copy of it.

Throw out the original in the Extensions folder.

Restart

Christian Berg-Nielsen
Sement&Betong
postproduction
Norway

[Christian Betong]

My colleague is supplying me with mattes for the VFX he is doing on a TV-series I am grading now.

He gives med Black and white mattes in prores 422 HQ (we need to keep the files small)

This works great!

He gives me the VFX shot + black&white matte.

Then in the “browse” tab I import the VFX shot into the media pool. Then I highlight the imported VFX shot in the “Media Pool”, and keeping it highlighted, I right click the black&white matte file in the clip details window and “add as matte”

Then you can rightclick on a node for that shot and “use matte(?)” (dont remember the wording of the menu item for the node) and grade the matte area separate.

Hope this helps. Excuse my bad english.

Christian Berg-Nielsen
Sement&Betong
postproduction
Norway

[Christian Betong]

https://f1.creativecow.net/1538/resolve-backup

Christian Berg-Nielsen
Sement&Betong
postproduction
Norway

[Christian Betong]

Anyone else that have good experience with the lacie external burner? Is there any other external drives that works for people??

I´m buying a external bluray burner myself, and would love to hear more on this!

Christian Berg-Nielsen
Sement&Betong
postproduction
Norway

[Christian Betong]

Tried with an XML on another computer. Same problem. I just reconnected them manually, boring but now it works. I can make em offline, move them and still reconnect. Weird. I put the reconnect command to a keyboard shortcut. I guess you could script a macro that would do it automatically. It took me 20 minutes…

Christian Berg-Nielsen
Sement&Betong
postproduction
Norway

[Christian Betong]

I am having the same problem!

Anyone more seen this?

Christian Berg-Nielsen
Sement&Betong
postproduction
Norway

[Christian Betong]

We have a box with 16 disks in a RAID 5 array running windows. Disk speed is around 600 MB/s. Currently we only had this connected on a 1GB ethernet.

Since Apple doesn´t support their hardware on windows we were thinking of this card in our windows box:
https://www.qlogic.com/Products/SAN_products_FCHBA_QLE2464.aspx
(seen at as cheap as $900-1000)

How would it work with this card connected to our RAID machine, and then use Apple´s dual channel 4Gb cards in each our two Mac pro clients?

We hope to manage without a fibre switch, and hope this setup is possible.

Any thoughts on this setup?

Christian Berg-Nielsen
Sement&Betong
postproduction
Norway

[Christian Betong]

I need at least 300MB/sec to one client on around 200MB/sec to the other one.

Also being XSAN for Video Apple Certified Technician, do you know if theese cards work i boot camp?

https://store.apple.com/us/product/MB355G/A?fnode=home/shop_mac/mac_accessories/networking&mco=MTA4NjQx

https://store.apple.com/us/product/MB356G/A?fnode=home/shop_mac/mac_accessories/networking&mco=MTA4NjQz

Christian Berg-Nielsen
Sement&Betong
postproduction
Norway

[Christian Betong]

-Do you really need a SAN? Do what everyone does that doesn’t want to -spend the money for one. Setup a network, and try to feed all of your -“client” workstations off of your one dedicated “server”. See if it’s -fast enough. You will see.

Like I stated in my first post I have a NAS and two clients and no, it is not fast enough.

-Now, if you put FC cards in all your computers, how will you tie this -to your server ? Have you looked at the connections of FC cards? Are -you familiar how these hook up? Even if you have just ethernet, how -do you think that you connect multiple computers together to one -server – even with simple ethernet ? Do you need a switch ? Do you -know ?

What I have right now is the two clients connected straight to the server on different ports with double aggregated gigabit ports.

What I am asking about is point-to-point fibre channel topology, meaning: Having four ports in the server and two ports in each client, no switch or hub.

Also I am asking if I need a SAN, or if NAS is enough for speed on typical HD video streams.

-If you dont’ know, may I give you some advice. You are either going -to start learning about computer networks (or perhaps Fibre Channel -networks), or if you are too busy, you will hire someone that does -networking for a living. Or perhaps you are at a larger company, that -has an IT department. Their computer people can point you in the -right direction.

-If you think that you are going to get a crash course on how to setup -a fibre channel network on an internet forum, you are dreaming.

Ha ha, no I was just asking for some advice on what routes there is for me to explore. As you know there is a budget on these things, I dont want to spend money on features I dont need. And what I need is a common pool of data accessible at high speed from two clients, and lower speed over normal ethernet.

Thanks for your advice on stating my mission more clear. At least that is how interpret your response.

Christian Berg-Nielsen
Sement&Betong
postproduction
Norway