Eric Hansen
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– direct connect the 10GbE card on the Mac Pro to the 10GbE card on the NAS. you can’t go through a switch.
– put them both on the same subnet (ie, NAS on 192.168.150.10, MP on 192.168.150.20). it has to be something different than the office network subnet, otherwise the Mac Pro will try to connect over the 1GbE port.
– bring up “Connect to Server” with Command-K on Mac Pro. Enter 192.168.150.10
– enjoy 10GbE goodness
of course, i skipped a lot of configuration steps, which I won’t go into here. I’ve never used this NAS. It looks interesting. But these steps should work for most any NAS.
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if that SSD is just a single drive in a slot in the Mac Pro, it won’t go that fast. did you try Blackmagic Disk Speed Test on it to see? i just tested a single Mercury Pro Extreme 6G in mine and i’m getting 130MB/s write and 250MB/s read
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hmm, not sure. mine just works.
the cache is DPX files. so if you’re in HD, you’ll need 250-300MB/s available. a single internal drive won’t be able to do this. my system has a 4 drive internal RAID-0 for the cache.
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in the conform window, right click on the sequence you want to ADD grades to, click Colortrace
then it will ask what sequence you want to use as the source. select your current project and the source sequence in the drop down.
i’m hoping this is changed in Resolve 10 to make choosing and copying grades easier.
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This is a total guess on my part, based on the few things i already know:
the x80 cards like the 480 and 580 draw too much power for the Mac Pro enclosure. MacVidCards sells a few that draw less power. how he achieve’s that, i don’t know. but it’s definitely not 50%.
most PCs have newer spec PCI buses, which can transfer at much higher speeds. the 6xx cards are capable of much higher speeds than the Mac Pros. (PCI v1.0 vs v2.0 vs v3.0)
with total RAM, anything over 2GB and OS X will stop recognizing OpenCL. with my 570 2.5GB, i had to make changes to the OpenCL framework using a Hex editor to get OS X to recognize it again. because it’s only 2GB, this 680 shouldn’t have this issue.
the 6xx series cards are more power efficient than the previous x80 cards, so they should all be able to work in a Mac Pro without needing their power consumption reduced.
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@jPo
does this “Mac Edition” just add the boot screen like the MacVidCards’ flashed cards? if that’s it, then no reason to buy this card over the PC-based 680s if you’re just using it for GPU.
Juan? You’ve tested the 680s extensively. Thoughts? Have you jumped to 10.8.3 yet?
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can you assign any functions in EuControl manually, similar to what you would do with the ShuttlePro?
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i wonder if they’re still limited to only 2 of those 4 outputs.
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Thanks for the link. But the writer left one of the biggest caveats for the last sentence:
“There are certain requirements to recording log that are different to recording in raw: for example, you must white balance the camera in log whereas in raw the white balance is encoded in metadata as a changeable option… but any competent cinematographer should be able to white balance a camera.”
as my facility has shifted from Varicams to Red Epics, fewer and fewer cines are white balancing because they know (correctly or not) that raw recording doesn’t require white balancing. So this requires a one-light color balance in Redcine-X because the cine didn’t take a few seconds to white balance. instead of an assistant editor just cranking out some proxy files for editing, I now have to sit in and grade before the edit. if an AE just went ahead and made ProRes4444 exports from Redcine-X without a basic balance, then there’s more work in grading because I need to work off the raw because the ProRes4444 files look like junk. It doesn’t matter if they’re 4444 log if the transcode was handled poorly. this happens A LOT.
back to Justin’s original post:
i just recently got a Red Rocket, but I’ve been using Resolve for awhile without it. set resolution to 1/4 for playback. if they shot 4kHD or better, you will see full 1920×1080 on your monitor. Enable the Render Cache if your storage is fast enough (i have a 4 drive internal RAID-0 just for this). This will create DPX files on the fly, which means your first playback of the footage might only be 14fps, but your second will be full fps. that Q4000 might be a bit weak. i would switch it to GUI and get a GTX680 or similar for GPU. check “optimized playback” in the preferences.
on the Delivery page, make sure you check “force highest quality de-bayer” or whatever it says (i don’t have Resolve open). so you can grade at 1/4, but export at Full.
a Red Rocket can definitely help. but if its only a portion of your work, your money is better spent on a Cubix with four 680 cards in it for the same price. even though my work system just got a Rocket, i’m still gonna push for a Cubix with more GPUs
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Eric Hansen
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I have the exact same config and my soft knobs seem to work OK. i don’t use too many of them, mostly just the Saturation.
my only issue is that the rings (lift, gamma, gain) have a delay, which i’ve mentioned on this forum before.
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Eric Hansen
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