Frank Gothmann
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[Craig Seeman] “Unlike Microsoft, Apple doesn’t make money selling operating systems. Lion at $29, like other Apple software, sells computers.”
How does that work? When you buy a new Mac you get Lion with it.
But, on the whole, I agree with you: Apple sells subsidised software to eventually move hardware. Which is exactly why several annoying factors come into play: such as disregard for backwards compatibility and team play. Not all of that is inovation by any means. -
It won’t slow down, eSata just isn’t really fast to begin with.
A serious Raid box as described above can give you 700 MBs and more; way beyond what eSata can deliver.
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There is no special requirement for direct attached storage. As far as finding the right box, it depends on your needs. Esata can do but ultimately might be too slow if you have lots of HD streams (which has nothing to do with Avid, same rule would apply with any other NLE).
I’d recommend an external raid enclosure for your drives, connected via a PCIe SAS adapter (eg. the Areca 8040 plus an Areca SAS adapter).
It is expendable should your space requirements grow and not too loud for a desktop environment, the adapter is cross platform and works with pc, mac and linux, it’s freakin’ fast and it’s very reliable. That’ll give you a future proof solution, also for high bandwith requirements. -
Dennis may be able to give more in-depth info on this but there is without a doubt a significant performance boots with Cuda, also with Prores files. I get a lot more realtime goodness on the PC with a Quadro 4000 than on a MacPro with an ATI card. That should be true for multicam as well.
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On the Avid it probably more an issue of AMA vs native, regardless of the codec. I see no differrence between six DnxHD movs or six Prores movs. Multicam is generally better and smoother with MXF files. I have never done multicam on PP but I’ll give that a try over the next couple of days and report back.
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[Herb Sevush] ” I discovered that ProRes is a major workflow bottleneck when cutting on PCs”
Could you elaborate? I have not experienced any kind of slowdown in either MC6 or PP with Prores material on the PC side at all. Actually, thanks to Cuda, PP performed significantly better on an otherwise similarly configured PC vs a Mac. There is the problem of not being able to encode to Prores but apart from that I cannot see any bottleneck.
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[Kevin Patrick] “Isn’t how Windows boxes work?
(sorry, couldn’t resist)”
Spot on, Kevin. Of course with the exception of GPUs in a break-out box via Apple co-developed TB which will apparently only work with windows and won’t work on OSX at all.
(Couldn’t resist, either.)
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[James Mortner] “Does this mean no I/O cards either ?”
It probably means exactely what it meant for regualr pci expansion boxes in the past: some stuff will work, some won’t, there will be issues, revised drivers, certain incompatibilities, reduced performance, etc. Which is why it was never really a 100 per cent statisfactory solution.
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[Lance Bachelder] “I was hopeful for MC6 but again a total dud “
That’s a bizarre assessment. MC was and has been the preferred NLE for long form even when FCP classic was still around and it will become even more so now. And there is a reason for it. You may not like the UI (I love it) but it’s toolset is superb and it is very stable and reliable in everyday workflows. To me, FCPX is an oversimplified bug fest extraordinaire, I’d prefer virtually anything else that is out there and I’d never trust it for something complex or a project on a tight deadline. Vegas unusable? What?
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[Danny Mulen] “If Premiere can use ProRes (can someone tell me how btw?)”
You simply import it as you would with any other .mov and when you export you choose Prores (or .h264 or whatever codec you want) along with your other export settings. There is nothing special there with regards to Prores in Premiere.
I assume you have the Prores codec already on your system. If not and you don’t want to spend any money for an app that brings it along get the free Avid DnxHD codecs. Won’t cost you a thing, also 10bit, same quality as Prores and cross-platform.