Dan Stewart
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But the fact remains that even at launch the performance gains for anything but fcpx (and that has yet to be seen) can’t possibly justify the price jump over a 2012 with a 2014 gpu & mavericks?
That’s even before you have to replace / thunderbodge your existing storages screens & peripherals.
And chuck in 4 drive bays & slots..
Not trying to be a downer but the more I think about the tube the more I realise I’ll never use one – a second hand cheesegrater will make sense at launch, let alone a year or two in when those firepros are antiques and we’re onto the next chipset- it’ll be at least that long before the GPU is king. This seems like the disposable desktop – fcpx manifest as hardware. And I don’t use fcpx because I can’t – I need some of the things they removed from the software – and now I guess the hardware too. I’d love to love it – hell maybe it’s $2k and we’re all smiling. -
Interesting.. also I just saw the geekbench scores (maybe I missed it)
https://www.macrumors.com/2013/06/19/apples-new-mac-pro-begins-showing-up-in-benchmarks/
It looks like a 2012 MP running Mavericks will be only marginally slower than the Tube and has the ‘extras’ we’re supposed to dream of for the future..
..and will be at least a thousand dollars cheaper, even with a Titan & a kepler..
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Import as AMA. Shouldn’t make a proxy. Dnx36 is pretty slick as a lightweight offline codec tho.. looking forward to having the system, program & 100 hours of rushes all on the new mac Pro flash memory. (If I can persuade anyone else here to buy one which isn’t looking good)
My main issue with MC tho is playing nice with Resolve/Smoke.. and I know Avid aren’t interested in making the competition more attractive. I play with the grade in 2 secs (yes BTW easy: F8 CC mode – bosh the curve – F6 SR mode – 5 secs tops)- if I’m bouncing to other progs its got to compete..
Starting to think the baselight plugin might be the way forward but haven’t compared it to resolve yet – trackers and such and all the good shit its worth bouncing for..
To conclude – if I can bounce around easy I’m excited. If not I’m not – but I’ll still use it.. Until the ONE RING appears..
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Underfloor heating
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[Walter Soyka] “As a Thunderbolt peripheral, with a cool-looking, horse-shoe metal case and a wall wart power adapter? :)”
Yeah! I was thinking:
optical tb ports might be overkill at that distance – but they’d stack without any other support 🙂
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I guess they’re daisy chained/routed with Ethernet or maybe they connect to 6 other nodes via TB? Would that be an advantage under any conditions? Maybe Cray could make us an interconnect..
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I’ve no experience but couldn’t you just run the camera tethered and extract frames? You could use a manually triggered strobe or plop as an ‘exposure’ and auto extract the following frame? Madness?
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[Walter Soyka] “I don’t see signs that Apple is interested in this area. They discontinued XGrid, and when was the last major update to Qmaster?”
I’ve heard so many horror stories about Qmaster.. how can Apple be so inept on this front? I know shops with literally dozens of iMacs & Pros who still sit on one machine for overnight renders.. I’m talking 40+ cores + gpus sat there doing nothing because Apple can’t get their OWN machines running their OWN software to work properly??
Unless I’m missing something either reliable network rendering is impossible (yet I hear Episode are OK?) or Apple seriously JDGAF..
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But Small Tree themselves do a TB-Ip box right? I believe Walter Biscardi is a fan..
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I meant the case – the tubes would stand as normal with the spaghetti feeding backwards.. really its just like lining a few rows of em on a low flat topped cabinet..
