Gabe Strong
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[Joe Marler] “For a 2009 Mac Pro, the average of the fastest entries in the GeekBench 4 CPU database is around 2,500 single-core and 13,800 multi-core. GPU performance is around 110,000, except for one entry using a GTX-980Ti which was 141,000.”
Well, not sure why you are taking ‘an average of the entries in the CPU database.’ That is a little
like averaging the speeds of any GPU anyone puts into the 2009 Mac Pro. The speed of the
2009 Mac Pro in the CPU database, will depend on which CPU a person installed into the computer.
For example, my scores were higher than the scores you quote as my single-core score was over 2,700
and my multi-core score was over 15,000…….and this was with a single processor. People who had a
dual processor and install dual X5690 processors are getting CPU scores in the mid to high 20,000 range.
But plenty of people are installing CPU’s which are not much better than the ones that came ‘stock’ with
the computer….not sure why except that they are cheaper to buy so maybe that’s it. I on the other hand,
decided that if I was going to ‘upgrade’ it, it was worth really upgrading. So I spent the $220 for the X5690
instead of saving a few bucks and getting something slower.Gabe Strong
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I had a stock 2009 MacPro. Single quad core processor 2.66GHZ with
a GT120 graphics card with 512MB of VRAM. I was poking around online
one day and found an interesting Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Mac.Pro.UpgradeThese guys are all upgrading older MacPros and offer help on
how to do it for less tech savvy people. I ended up upgrading to
a six core 3.46GHZ processor, a 980Ti graphics card with 6GB of
VRAM. Also installed SSDs, including a couple on an internal
PCI card for some real speed. This setup is really fast.
I wrote more about it on my blog here:
https://www.alaskacameradude.blogspot.comGabe Strong
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Well ok but you also said
If you are a small production company, up to a large business,
subscribing makes more sense for accounting and tax purposes.I just don’t think that’s true. It doesn’t make ‘more sense.’ You can
deduct the costs of either one. There is no advantage at all and
neither one ‘makes any more sense.’ They are both a tax write off.
I guess if you are a company who is making a lot of money, CC may
be better as you are spending MORE and therefore you have a BIGGER
write off, maybe that’s what you meant??Gabe Strong
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Sorry Oliver but you are actually incorrect. You can deduct the cost of FCP X from
your taxes just as you can deduct the cost of a subscription. It may
be done in a different place…..but you can use the section 179 deduction
to deduct the entire cost of FCP X. Directly from the IRS website.‘Essentially, Section 179 of the IRS tax code allows businesses to deduct the full purchase price of equipment and/or software purchased during the tax year. That means that if you buy a piece of equipment or software you can deduct the FULL PURCHASE PRICE.’
Now there are some restrictions. You are limited to $500,000 in Section 179 deductions
in any given year. But this notion that there is some sort of tax deduction
‘advantage’ to a subscription over a full purchase is just incorrect.Gabe Strong
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I dunno…..so you are saying $50 a month is totally fair when it comes to CC but
terribly expensive when it comes to high speed internet access??
????Gabe Strong
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Man, we finally got 30Mb speed about two weeks ago. Before that, the fastest
we could possibly get was 3Mb (and we were paying a lot more than $50/month for
it!). Looking at what people say they are paying makes me shake my head. People
sure are spoiled…..$50/month for 20Mb expensive? Wow.Gabe Strong
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Being able to connect a piece of video to another ‘connected clip’ instead of always
being force to connect it to the primary storyline, is one of my most requested features.
I’d really, really, really like it if they put that feature in.Gabe Strong
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First……the FS700 will NOT, NOT, NOT ‘turn a 35mm into a 52mm.’ Any 35mm lens,
(no matter if it is a APSC 35mm or a FF 35mm) will look the exact same on
a FS700. The only rationale behind ‘crop factor’ is to relate all lenses to
the field of view of a full frame camera. Which you don’t need to do, unless you
are a 5D shooter. So a 35mm lens on a FS700 will look similar to a 52mm lens on a 5D,
but any 35mm lens will look the same on the FS700 (with one exception noted below.)
There is no ‘APSC crop mode’ on the FS700…..it is by nature a Super 35 chip, which is
basically APSC sized. You can’t ‘turn this crop off’, because this is the native size of the sensor.*Exception
You can use a Speedbooster/focal reducer which will allow you to use full frame lenses
on the FS700. This adapter is ‘sort of’ the opposite of the ‘doubler’ which used to be on many
news broadcast cameras. The doubler gave you twice the reach, at the expense of losing a stop
of light. The Speedbooster, gives you a wider field of view….and you gain a stop. What this basically
means, is that you can use a full frame lens on a FS700…..and get the field of view that you would get
on the full frame camera, plus you get an extra stop. If you try to use an APSC lens on a Speedbooster,
you would get a vignette, but not the other way around.Gabe Strong
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2009 upgraded MacPro (6 core 3.46ghz CPU, 980Ti GPU, and PCI SSDs) and 2013 MacBook Pro here. FCP X 10.3.1 is lighting fast with no issues yet.
Gabe Strong
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Encore CS6 is what you want. No subscription, and you can create
custom menus, buttons and script actions. It’s kind of like DVD
Studio Pro for Blu Rays. I use it for all my Blu Rays. It’s not perfect, but
it’s by far, the best Blu Ray authoring app I could find for Mac.Gabe Strong
G-Force Productions
http://www.gforcevideo.com