Darren Roark
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I think 4K is a long time away from being standard.
The M395 is pretty impressive having used it next to my dual D700 Mac Pro. What GPU is in your 2009 Mac Pro?
If it’s a really good deal then it should hold that value for at least the near future so you could get your investment back and trade up to a beefier machine.
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That’s a great machine for FCP X and Motion. The screen will spoil you against wanting to look at anything else.
Depending on what you will be editing the only possible bottleneck I can see is the G-RAID drive if it’s a 2X drive model.
If you ever work with Red footage, keep the 2009 machine, it’s still a great workhorse for heavy transcoding jobs. Gotta love Apple for making machines that are still useful eight years later.
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Does Resolve 12.5 still have to convert any non ProRes codecs to a virtual ProRes on the fly in 32bit float space?
FCP X does something similar but autoscales the quality depending on system performance in ‘better performance’.
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2. Many DPs like to shoot with vintage or otherwise “lower quality” lenses. This gives the image “character” and, in the words of one cinematographer that I worked with, “takes the curse off of the digital image.” That’s all fine, but again, viewed natively, you start to see the defects in the optics, like chromatic aberration in the corners, coloration of the image, and general softness.
I’m glad you brought up this point. The other side of this where the director specifically shoots 4-6K with the intent to liberally repo the shot without testing the lenses with the DP beforehand.
I’m surprised how many times I’m having to explain that just because you have 4X the pixels doesn’t mean you can punch in 4X.
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Agreed, but calculating the raw parts minus the GPUs the ‘dollars to donuts’ profit margin is huge.
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Not sure if they are low volume, they are everywhere here in LA.
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I have a feeling that when the new nMP’s hit there will be GPU upgrades available for the older models. The SSD and the RAM are user upgradeable officially, the GPUs seem just as easy to swap out.
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A lot of times it was bad thermal paste application. I’ve opened up my fair share of older MBP’s that were running hot and there was a thick pancake of paste. Reapplied the right amount and it cooled down a lot.
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I’m guessing though that the beta version of PP was the culprit since the safety measures in the machines seemed to fail.
Transcoding Red footage in FCP X varies in speed transcoding the same shot depending on how hot the machine already is. If they didn’t account for that anything’s possible.
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I ran tests with my D700 machine laying it on it’s side running full bore. It does run hotter that way. My guess is heat rising at a 90 degree angle makes a difference. It also changed depending on which part of the cylinder it was resting on.