Frank Gothmann
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Actually, there IS a way to export directly to Prores out of Vegas and Premiere CS5.5
It is a bit more geeky but it works:https://slugco.com/meta/ProResOnWindows/
There is also a special framreserver 64bit built specifically for CS5.5, that’s “Advanced Frameserver”.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/advancedfs/
Mulithreaded Prores encoding is in it’s early stages so it’s not super-fast atm but they’ll add speed with every new build. Curious to see where this goes.
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[Thomas Frank] “That secure companies are saying OSX is less Secure then Windows that would make Linux also less secure right… yup..”
No!
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[Thomas Frank] “What? Who the hell said that some guy on a blog???
ON your 600k for a trojan is not that bad if you consider how many get infected on daily basis in the Windows world.”Said what?
The info about the 600k infections is coming from a security firm and not “some buy on a blog”. Plus it’s been published on lots of other tech sites as well.
That fact that windows 7 is more secure than OSX is nothing new and this, too, has been well publicised in the past.It’s irrelevant how many are infected on a daily basis if you don’t look at market share and why there is currently less infection on the Mac platform. It’s not because the Mac is more secure, period.
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[Gary Huff] “Which version of Linux are you using?”
Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS for the shared storage.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “But do you do that with something like an HP z800 or do you just buy a new z800? I am not interested in building our own machines. No thanks, I have enough to do.”
I am not sure I would do it with the z800s. The main cost factor of a machine like that are the cpus and gpus and you may end up paying almost as much as a new machine. It’s different with smaller machines or special purpose boxes though.
I have built four linux servers myself and I would always go that way. It saved me almost 10.000 dollars with one of our shared storage servers which is in use now for almost 2 years. That’s a cost saving where it clearly makes sense to do things yourself. Earlier this year I changed the mainboard (to have more slots) and cpu. Downtime was 20 minutes and the machine is ready to accept four new client machines now without any modification to the OS. -
[Jeremy Garchow] “I guess, from my perspective, if we went all windows, it’s certainly not going to be much cheaper. It is true that PCs have different levels of CPU in the i7s and such that can get wrapped in a much more configurable solution than an iMac or MacBookPro, but once you get up to the bigger procs, things even out pretty quickly, despite the PCs having a bit more card slot flexibility.”
Agreed, but I never said a high-end workstation, unless self-built, will be that much cheaper. You have much more options on the hardware side and things will be cheaper if you need special purpose machines such as little servers, NAS boxes, mid-level workstations or render nodes; also some peripherals will be cheaper.
Machine upgrades is also where you can save money, and quite significantly. New mainboard, processor, off you go. With an iMac and even Macpros it essentially is what it is. New processor means new machine.
The Q4000 for the Mac will most likely disappear if the Macpro goes, don’t you think? -
[Andrew Richards] “Mostly just FUD on my part. It reminds me of how much legacy junk is sitting beneath the surface on Windows.”
DLL’s are not a problem, they used to be in the past but that’s long over. 99 percent of people never have to deal with them, nor with the registry.
In X you have .kext files, preference files, terminal commands – equally frightening and arcane if you have problems in certain areas.There are quite a few people who dislike the ribbons. I am actually looking forward to it. It find shortcuts to common tasks very, very useful. Gnome Commander and Total Commander all the way for me.About the looks: I don’t care about how it looks as long as it works and I am faster with it. Same for the font rendering. Quarz renders nicer, yes, but it’s also a slow dog.
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[Bobby Mosca] “I disagree. I will still have to jump online for stock footage, emails, research… whatever, and I’m comfortable doing that on the Mac. If I have to move to Windows for my editing machine, it would take an act of Congress to get me to go online with that thing, or leave it connected at all. I haven’t caught a virus in decades on my HP because I know what I’m doing, but I never feel safe on it. Working on Windows is just a sole-sucking enterprise.”
Most security firms agree that OSX is a lot less secure than current windows or linux. As more Macs will be in usage, more issues will show up and more maleware will be written.
First signs of this trend are very prominent:
https://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/04/05/flashback_trojan_estimated_to_have_infected_600k_macs_worldwide.html -
[Jeremy Garchow] “And that’s the thing. When you start talking serious beef with GPUs, the prices sky rocket.”
It is a costly card, but you’ll be just fine with a Quadro 4000 for editing and the cost of the HP together with the Q4000 was cheaper (although just a little bit) then the current Macpro. Also, you can always go with the non Quadro Nvidia cards like the GTX 680 which is really bargain giving it’s power.
As to the Quadra 6000, I would not consider it for an NLE workstation. The Quadro 4000 will work just fine. Also, it looks as if my primary NLE will be Edius which mostly is CUDA ignorant. The Quadro 4000 will come handy for Premier CS6, AE etc. though.
It’s really heavy image processing stuff where the price/performance point of a Q6000 makes economic sense and it’s also those areas where the pay for a couple of jobs justifies such investments. -
[Jeremy Garchow] “Just curious, but what GPU did you buy for your PC?”
It was the HP config with the Quadro 4000 preinstalled. We will probably get a z820 with a Quadro 6000 in summer as I intend to do all of my 2k PFClean work on this machine and it likes Cuda plus there are those Quadro SDI output options.