David Cherniack
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Neil, I don’t know where you price stuff but for the items listed plus a 2TB Samsung Pro NVMe SD plus case and 1200W PS I paid last November $5500. The CPU is in the list – a 16/32 i9 7960 is overclocked to 4.3 GHz, a simple thing to do with XMP overclocking on x299 mainboards. Of course it helps to buy in a competitive market from as few suppliers as possible and get resulting discounts. You can also hang a 10 bit 29 inch UHD Dell monitor on it for less than $400.
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Thanks for the translation for the hardware challenged ☺
[Bob Zelin] “David’s system will run Adobe CC, Media Composer and Davinci Resolve (and Cinema 4D and others faster than an iMac Pro (unless you possibly have a Sonnet or Akitio eGPU box and another Vega 64 card).”
I’m doubtful that this is true, Bob. Correct me if I’m wrong but the TB3 connector for eGPU boxes is 4 lanes…so each card in an external enclosure is sharing those 4 lanes with every other card. My two cards are running 16 lanes each. The effective speed is not directly proportional to the number of lanes but I’d expect that there’d need to be around 4 or 5 external cards to match the effective speed of my two.
Yes the cost excluding the external Areca array was much less than $6k and this o/c’d system will put the iMac Pro to relative shame with any of the apps you mentioned.
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In a not-so-perverse way I feel sorry for you guys.
My editing system:
Intel i9 7960x 32 cores @ 4.3GHz
Thermaltake Floe Riing 360mm Water Cooler
Asus x299 Prime Deluxe
64GB 3333 Corsair Dominator ram
2 EVGA 1080ti Cards @ 16 lanes each
36 TB Areca 12 drive Thunderbolt 3 Array @ 40mbpsLife is good when you’re not a prisoner of any church.
Have a great NAB those of you who are going.
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I’ve heard that some people won’t even pay 5 cents for it…which is far less than the cost of a bagel. ?
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[Tim Wilson] “Yet another way of saying that yes, every perspective is equally unique, equally subjective, and equally distant from objective.”
Here’s where we part ways. It’s not my experience that every perspective is equally distant from objective. Some people, and that includes documentary filmmakers, are more delusional than others. Plain and simple.
[Tim Wilson] ”
It’s a distortion of CONTEXT. The producers added slack-jawed silence that didn’t happen there, and only happened at all when the subjects had been led to believe that picture wasn’t rolling.”No disagreement there. If indeed the cut-in was taken from a different context it would be completely unethical. The people responsible should be publicly censored and fired. They do not deserve the privilege of working in the media.
As for Mr. Hertzog I’m afraid my opinion of his films is not as high as yours. I find him both pretentious and shallow which is as deadly a combination as there is. But I don’t consider Michael Moore a bête noire. He is a comedian and progressive propagandist and because what political views I have are progressive l generally agree with his propaganda. A filmmaker’s filmmaker he is not, however, but he does not pretend to be.
[Tim Wilson] “For the same reason my mother and you sought out David’s butt. Your perspective is your perspective for whatever reason you choose — curiosity, fondness of butts, whatever.
No more or less objective than any other position, but stated in a way mercifully free of madness”
I’m sorry to have to report that I didn’t seek out the butt of the David. I was just seeking out a different perspective on Michelangelo’s brilliance and wandered to the backside. As for the modest penis consider the artist’s dilemma: if he makes it too large it would distract from the whole. Small on the other hand makes the whole piece that much more impressive. Unfortunately the artist left no notes, that I’m aware of, on whether he had taken liberties with the size. But we can imagine the chagrin of the model if there was a sculptor’s diminuendo.
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Hmmm. You seem to have missed my point, as well as my humour.
I was not arguing that there are objective documentaries. I’m in full agreement on that having made more than 60 of them. Perfect objectivity is not possible in any creative pursuit. Nevertheless the point I was making is that some documentaries are more objective than others. By not including that caveat I thought your statement lax. However if you’re insisting that they’re all equally lacking in objectivity that’s a rather extreme position because it equates the filmic ravings of a madman with a Fred Wiseman. In order to do that one is forced to take the view that there’s no objective world at all beyond subjective experience. ie there’s no objective world to approximate, therefore all renditions are equally valid. But because the vast majority of us do agree that a cloudless daylit sky is more or less blue, among a multitude of other things, I think that position is rather untenable, if not impractical. I can’t but think you agree.
PS Having been in Florence two months ago I’d agree with your mother butt I’m not sure what it has to do with anything.
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[Tim Wilson] ”
re: objectivity, exactly. My feeling that any documentarian who claims that objectivity even exists, much less that it applies to his or her work needs to be branded with a scarlet “C” for “Charlatan” or “I” for “Idiot” as appropriate, which will then also be supered across the center of every frame of their work.”As someone who has worked the fields of cinema verite I take exception to this lazy generalization. Not like Tim to be so lax. He must be getting on to drool so.
To be more precise: there is a objective world that exists beyond our subjective experience. But just as a mentally healthy person’s experience of it is closer to its reality than a severely deluded person’s it’s also true that some documentaries are more objective than others.
Michael Moore’s last film Where Do We Invade Next cherry picked objective facts and assembled them to create a highly skewed perspective that nevertheless made a reasonably objective point: that America does a lot of things badly compared to other countries in the world…a fact that anyone with any experience of the world knows very well. This cherry picking M. O. is how he works. I think it was in Bowling for Columbine that he walked into an unlocked front door in Toronto to demonstrate how Canadians do not fear their neighbours like Americans do. This caused great hilarity among those millions of us who live in Toronto and routinely lock our doors. The consensus was that woman of the house probably forgot. But the greater truth he was getting at is that Torontonians don’t lock up because we fear our neighbours in the same way Americans do. (In fact, we lock up because we are a prudent people founded by Loyalists and counter revolutionaries.) But the point he was speaking to was a more objective truth than the outlier house in the scene. Are his films less objective than Fred Wiseman’s? Doesn’t Wiseman cherry pick what he chooses to film and then shape it in the editing to portray the essential essence of his subject as a similar end result? Don’t both of them get at some kind of truth that has an objective component? Despite two radically different ways of working do they not get closer to objectivity than the subjective, some would say delusional, ramblings of a Werner Hertzog? Probably. And that’s my point: to dismiss all documentary as lacking objectivity is too general a statement. I know you didn’t really mean to be so lax, Tim. It was the whiskey. Or the drool.
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Michael, you might check the discussions on the BM Cinematography forum. There’s lots of questions being raised, with technical analysis, on the sensor and an uneven magenta cast by those who’ve taken delivery.
First time here in a while. Nothing much changed. Triumphalism and fetishism seem just as widely prevalent with a few adult voices in the mix that make for enlightening reading and at the same time demonstrate a patience and tolerance that might qualify for sainthood. Bravo and thanks.
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Being basically a one man band Bill was both the Development and Marketing manager and could listen to users in ways that are impossible today. Many features of the EMC2 were way ahead of its time. The one major flaw was no undo 🙂
David
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