David Chai
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Hi Chris, actually I’m just using the single GTX 570, I took my 5770 out of the machine. There are people who have both cards in their system, but I didn’t want the heat and power issues and also didn’t want to lose a slot.
I’ve read that some use a power cable from the optical drive and convert it to a PCI E card power, and some will use a splitter cable, making sure a dedicated power goes to the power port of the GTX 570, and the split goes to the 5770 and the 2nd power port of the GTX 570. It’s done that way as the graphics card only draws more power under load, so this balances the power requirements better. I haven’t done it myself, so do at your own risk.
good luck with your machine,
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I’m using a standard PC EVGA GTX 570 with 2.5GB of ram, and Resolve runs pretty much real time on my macpro 3,1 2008, using Lion 10.7.4. No flashing required, just install lion and nvidia and cuda drivers and install card. Of course you’ll need the pcie power cables you can find on ebay, but you will not have a apple logo on boot up.
FCPX runs fast, as well as general computing.
David Chai
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Just use a normal PC evga 570 2.5GB, just need lion 10.7.4, latest nvidia drivers and latest cuda, works without flashing.
David
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Just use a normal PC evga 570, just need lo
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Well, there is a FREE CG, https://www.casparcg.com/
Runs on PC though…—————–
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Please Add ProRes! Please add ProRes! As much as I respect Avid, I’m a final Cut guy…
David…
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Thanks for that! I didn’t even notice they pulled that preference… on one hand, does that mean they are changing things based on feedback? Or does it mean, that they are just making one silly flip flop decision after another? Time will tell…
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Change the preference for transition to not overlap and it won’t do that anymore.
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To answer the question, how could Motion compete with Photoshop. Well photoshop was invented in the 90’s and at the time didn’t have a huge undo buffer, it only had one undo, so in order to make effects, they were applied destructively. So if you wanted to quickly undo the effect, you actually had to make a duplicate layer, in case you changed your mind about the applied effect later, and wanted to revert to your clean layer.
As computers got more memory, In order to solve this problem, they added a history palette, so you can now step back in time and undo way back in history. But this is a silly paradigm, given how effects have evolved, and with most current tools (including Adobe After Effects), you can turn effects on and off, and also reorder them in the stack. FCP 7 works like this. Incidentally After Effects allows you set a composition at 30,000 x 30,000 pixels precisely because some designers prefer to apply effects on photos in After Effects due to the precise control you have over effects.
In Motion, you have the layer order, which is very similar to Photoshop, but the effects stack can be applied non-destructively and updates in real-time as you adjust it, and all paint and brush tools are vector based. Actually they did apply some of this technology into Aperture, but Aperture does not have any typography tools, layer tools or the amount of sophisticated masking tools in Motion. Motion also allows for 3rd party plugins to give looks and enhancements not possible with Aperture.
So if Aperture, like After Effects, allowed for a Canvas of 30,000 x 30,000 pixels, it could be a serious competitor to photoshop. As for the paint tools, they are all vector, and can be resized, rescaled, changed, tweaked, turned into a path, all after the fact. A pen is supported not only for pressure sensitivity, but also gestures could control the GUI, obviously derived from the programmers background on Discreet Combustion. (All Discreet stuff is pen based) Incidentally Combustion had a good vector paint tool… I’m sure they just took it from that. See how they animate drawings with varying stroke widths in Motion, it’s quite awesome. After Effects actually added paint and write on tools after Motion came out in CS3 I believe, but Motion paint tool can replace any of the brushes for any other object at any time, making it still more flexible.
Don’t get me wrong, I think After Effects is an awesome piece of software, and has it’s place in any motion graphic designer’s arsenal, but Motion is $50?!?! Anyway, I just like it because it’s super fast to try out ideas, and you can pretty much just hit play and see it instantly. Sometimes when you need more control of actual 3D and not the 2.5D they use in Motion, then After Effects is it. I think they complement each other rather than compete, but making animated text templates for use in FCP X is truly killer, and I used that feature a lot in FCP 7. But it was slow and prone to crashing. In FCP X it is much faster and less buggy in this area, as it better be as it’s now the primary CG.
David 😀
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This is an amusing thread, I guess people are bored on Christmas day…
I think the reason AVID have a hard time being profitable is that the High End POST business is dying, Technicolor and Deluxe have merged their lab operations, Postworks merged with Technicolor in NY. That’s after a whole bunch of LA facilities were bought out by Indian post houses. There’s a plethora of old AVID systems out there from a decade ago, that are still in use. Why? Because it’s an offline system, and if that’s all you need, well, your needs were covered 10 years ago. Broadcasters are also slashing budgets, especially in news.
Any medium, high budget TV series or film is going to be finished on DS or Smoke, so there really is no need for finishing for the TV episodic and film markets. Paying for a software upgrade once in a while is also not going to give you much revenue. AVID unity was great when it first came out, but expensive, and now with tons of competition at much cheaper prices, that market must be really shrinking.
Apple have obviously decided to go for the 99% and not the 1% of high end users that need edgecode or audio Timecode reading from the audio track. FCP X is a bold new direction, probably about a year ahead of it’s time, as the death of tape was given a big helping hand with the Japan tsunami.
I wish (apart from the multicam and video out) there was a non-linked mode and a track mode. I think that 99% of the 1% would pretty much be satisfied with that for FCP X.
As much as I like AVID MC for it’s high end film features, it sucks for finishing. The effects stack is braindead compared to every other editor on the market. This is 2011, not 1998. Straight conforms, static titles and a bit of primary color correction are not good enough anymore. You need full color, secondaries, vignettes, you need full motion graphics and better quality transitions. Apple delivers that for $299. Plus it’s super easy for a new user to pick up and start editing, you don’t need a two week steep learning curve like you do for AVID.
I honestly believe that if apple had actually scaled up the workspace for Motion, they could have taken on photoshop, because the effects stack is so much better than photoshops stupid history, and duplicating layers to try out effects. It already had a much better paint tool than After Effects, despite it’s being on the market for over 15 years.
I find that I can cut on FCP X much faster than I could with FCP 7, but am also frustrated with some of the annoying things of a version one product, but It’ll get sorted out. They would lose too much reputation to kill the product off now.
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