[Frank Gothmann]

Widespread is relative. 30hrs of content isn’t something a lot of people are moving all the time I assume, especially when they are editing with various source formats, so 1 glitch per 30 hrs is something one may consider an unlucky event.
We are not editing so much but encoding, transcoding at lot of stuff every month so our turnover in material is a lot more so it’s easier to see a problematic pattern, especially since it’s coming from so many different suppliers and has passed QC at an earlier stage.

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Will do, but want to see if anyone may have more info about it as it could be pretty much anything: Prores, Quicktime on Mac itself, OSX, filesystem implementation, drivers.
If remember reading about similar glitches with Prores here on the Cow a while back but search didn’t get me any further and I cannot find the posts.

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[Frank Gothmann]

Blu-ray compliant files out of Compressor always had a .264 extension. Quality isn’t really great though. And no, you cannot really open them under OSX. Adobe’s apps can work with them. Videolan can play it when its muxed as a .m2ts stream.

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[Frank Gothmann]

[Bill Davis] “Olympics terrorist manifesto EPKs in Premier or X?
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Have to say that was a good one, Bill. Almost chocked laughing.

Don’t understand why is it relevant who uses what to get a job done. Either it works for you and your workflow or it doesn’t. Simple.

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[Frank Gothmann]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “there is a broader ease to life on the mac tho.

it is a nicer existence given the amount of time spent there yes? windows is kind of moronic everywhere and a bit awful.”

Again, it depends. After over a year on win as my main OS, I can easily list a ton of points where OSX behaviour is slow, buggy, inconsistent and a much inferior user experience than Windows, some things are downright shocking in OSX. And, of course, there are also things which are better in OSX. And the same goes for any given Linux and it’s various desktop environments. To simply say it is moronic everywhere is just wrong.

Same goes for the new Mac Pro. It is by now means a bad or slow machine. It’s a slightly above average single-cpu workstation with above average graphics power (unless you need Cuda flexibility which I do, some apps won’t even boot without a CUDA card) and a design which in my opinion doesn’t make any sense at all. The latter is a matter of opinion, the former a matter of fact and when people immediately came forward after the machine’s announcement and called it “the beast”, the “black pc killer”, the “behemoth” and what not, I simply think it’s the usual Apple hyperbole that has little to do with the reality.

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Let’s look at something I would consider if I had to get a high-end workstation today, and I wouldn’t even go the Haswell route because performance wise there is very little reason to do so:

ASUS Z9PE-D8 WS motherboard
Dual CPU board for Xeons, 2 x Intel Gig Ethernet, 7 PCIe 3x slots, USB3, USB2, Firewire, 14 Sata Ports – approx 500 $
2x Intel® Xeon® Prozessor E5-2697V2 at 2.7Ghz – 3.100$ each = 6.200 $
32 GB ECC ram – 400 $
2 x Gefore GTX 780 Ti – 750 $ each = 1.500
PCIe Storage Mushkin Scorpion Deluxe 1TB (2.000Mbit read/write) – 1.300 $
Power supply – 300 $
Case – 150 $

= 10.350 $
Almost the same cost, substantially higher performance and expansion potential.

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[Shawn Miller] ” And I think this is what Frank is making fun of. Frank, please correct me if I’m wrong.”

Spot on.

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There’s nothing out there that will be faster or equal to a Mac, don’t you know that?
Because it lacks the magic sauce from Cupertino. Remember, the one that made Photoshop run so much faster on PPC compared to the suckers from Intel. Or the amazing iDVD MPEG2 encodes in realtime while the loosers running other, much more expensive encoders still had to cope with old-fashined stuff like 2-pass encoding and quantization settings.
It’s the magic formula that’s in all of Apple’s products. The shrinkage in size which is directly proportional to the features and add-ons they simply dropped which in turn is propotional to the hidden increase in pricing, the reduced longevity and the super-duper lightning speed of it all. It’s all pure magic.

[Shawn Miller] “Why would a DIY computer using the same or similar components as a Mac Pro be slower than a Mac Pro? How much faster would my CPUs and graphics cards have to be to equal the MPs performance? “

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I have never managed to accomplish this with a BMD product, neither have I managed to successfully establish a full Dolby E workflow with their stuff. Maybe somebody else can shed light if this has changed in the last years because I gave up trying at a certain point and went with AJA.
All I can tell you that both works flawless with a Kona 3G, dual speed ingest as well as proper Dolby E captures and laying back to tape.
I recommend the SRW 5800 btw, you have all you need with the HDCAM option installed.

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Geoff, you are aware that the user’s Library directory is invisible, right? Starting with Lion, Apple in its infinite wisdom decided to hide that folder from you for absolutely no reason because it’s the one system folder one needs to get to to fix things up all the time.
So… when in the Finder hit alt and go to your “Go” menu. You will find your Library folder in that menu with that magic button pressed.

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