Darren Roark
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[Jeff Kirkland] “Can’t say that Editready does anything different to FCPX in the rewrapping process but I personally feel like the footage plays better out of It.”
Hi Jeff,
Since the last pro video formats update the FCP X rewrapped MXF files have been working great. Before that the Sony and Canon files were crazymaking. Relinking was a major pain, now it’s as fast as ProRes.
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[Walter Soyka] “Out of curiousity, what kinds of GPU-related tasks are you guys generally getting bogged down with?”
In the day to day editing, not much even editing Red RAW footage. It’s the transcoding of the Red footage to proxy on features that is the bottleneck, but it’s still at least realtime depending on the camera with the D700s.
When it’s a big rush I rent a Red Rocket card.
The numbers on these new cards look awesome on paper, makes me tempted to rebuild a cMP for myself to transcode dailies.
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https://eshop.macsales.com/tech_center/index.cfm?page=/manuals/item/owc-aura-ssd.html
I saw on their tweetings they wrote a driver for it. I can’t say that I recommend the OWC Auras as I haven’t been able to test one. The reviews were a mixed bag initially but they seem to have improved.
I recommend the newer model 1TB Samsung drives which I see online, and to clarify the SSD is user replaceable in the manual. I didn’t mean to insinuate there were readily available drives everywhere just that it’s possible.
I’m interested in testing out the new NVIDIA card with a Tbolt3 machine in a chassis. That is with the if’s , will there be driver for it, will there be a compatible Tbolt3 chassis, etc.
The ifs…
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[Andrew Kimery] “if the replacement cost for a pair of new GPUS was, say, $4000 what kind of performance increase for GPU-centric tasks would you be okay with? 20%? 50%?”
That would be well into stay happy with what I have or new computer territory.
If the base model of the Mac Pro is $3K and the D700s only add another $1K to the price, it’s hard to say what percent of the Mac Pro price the the base D300s are, my guess is it’s under $1K.
If the pair of ‘future equivalent’ of the D700s are on the very high side cost $2K for the pair and I could transcode Red footage to ProRes proxy 40% faster than I can now which is realtime without a Red Rocket I would consider it.
The Rocket is still nearly as much as a top end new(ish) Mac Pro. I’d rather just get another Mac Pro at that point.
The 7950s are really great cards for the 2012> Mac Pros for $500 each and do pretty well against the D700s and beat the D500s for many FCP X tasks so who can really tell. It seems that the GPUs are finally aren’t too badly overpriced.
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[Andrew Kimery] “I don’t think people will be willing to pay what it would cost to buy a customer made graphics card for a such a low-volume machine like the nMP. “
If I got significantly more performance out of mine I would buy two.
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[Charlie Austin] “[Oliver Peters] “maybe they are also working on Siri-powered Roombas! :)”
Wait! Do you know something specific about that, or are you just spreading rumors?!? Because i want one! :-)”
“Hey Siroombaâ„¢, please take my cat over there please”
https://youtu.be/Of2HU3LGdbo?t=44
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[Walter Soyka] “Don’t mind me, Darren, I’m feeling a little feisty today.”
I thought that’s what this place was for! 😉
What I was told by an AMD engineer was “We make the chips, and then Apple takes them and we don’t see them again until they are announced as a product. (That was both telling yet raises more questions.)
The 2013 Mac Pro so far a bigger SSD can be swapped as well as faster CPU and RAM. Yes, no internal HD slots or other internal expansion, they didn’t leave room, but the bare system itself can be upgraded, they just don’t offer parts. (Yep, big problem)
Ultimately my hope is they stick with this slot for the next round and sell updated GPUs as an upgrade, or at least make cards specifically for the 2013. The SSD, RAM, and CPU can be swapped out, they just don’t sell the GPUs yet. (big problem)
I’m wondering if they decided to limit more than 2 GPUs in Yosemite (And Mavericks?) so that there wouldn’t be a zillion “I told you so” articles that TB2 wasn’t up to snuff to the then current PCIe slots.
The performance people are getting with Mac Minis hooked up to a GPU in the hacked expansion box are impressive.
If the rumors are true that the rumored Mac Pro has five T-Bolt 3 busses (10X ports of USB 3.1 and Tbolt3) then it could be possible they would support this again in 10.12. (hoping)
My hope was the 2012 ‘cheese grater’ was going to have Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 built in as a swan song, it didn’t happen. I have helped a few friends turn 2009 MPs into computers that leave my maxed out trash can in the dust which shows there could be a long life ahead of the current trash can.
One can hope.
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[John Rofrano] “I always create Camera Archives from my camera cards and import from the archives. Never had any problems.”
This is the best way to go if you have the camera cards and aren’t handed a drive with copied card media. (Forgot to say this)
It’s the best of both worlds, native card structure is preserved in case, and the rewrapped QT files work great in FCP X.
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[Walter Soyka] “Wouldn’t it be really cool is if Apple could innovate some way to allow these GPUs to interface [link] with their professional computers, so GPU-loving software could take advantage of these advances in technology?”
It’s already possible to do this with an AKiTiO expansion chassis and dubious drivers. (hack) Is it officially supported? No. Does it take a 20% performance hit in TBolt 2? Yes.
Fingers crossed that it’s supported by the time Thunderbolt 3 arrives. It doesn’t seem too difficult to do so I’m guessing/hoping it’s in the cards.
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They are a pain for me too. Iv’e had less issues when I have FCP X rewrap them using the import window. It’s only spanned files that aren’t Red that I do this for. Otherwise I just drag and drop.