Gary Huff
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[Tom Sefton] “Would love for someone to fund a test with the new Titan in an external enclosure with some 6k footage….”
Do it with a Titan X and watch the enclosure melt… 😀
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[Tom Sefton] “t’s not a huge amount but if you never work with raw, have a reasonably light workload and edit and deliver to h264 it could make a difference. I’ll try and find the online article.”
That would be great. 20% doesn’t sound like a whole lot of difference, but I have a lot of longform material that currently takes about 2 hours to render on my MBPr, and I’d like to get that down to a tenth if possible. Not sure if the iMac could get me there or if the Mac Pro could. I prefer raw power, but I do understand the benefit of going with a Skylake i7 vs an Ivy Bridge Xeon.
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[Tom Sefton] “the speeds we have been getting are helped massively by the speed of the raids.”
Oh yes, I have experienced this. A 40 minute Resolve render out to a LaCie Thunderbolt Rugged drive (because that’s what the client provided after I requested a G-RAID) dropped to under 10 minutes rendering out to my MBPr’s internal 1TB SSD drive.
[Tom Sefton] “We never had any servicing required for either, but purchased AppleCare as a fail safe. “
That’s good to have someone with a positive Mac Pro experience, it’s been a sea of negative for me asking and reading around, and I am in the market for something powerful.
[Tom Sefton] “The one place the Mac Pro isn’t as good as the iMac is encoding to h264 – the iMac is faster for this.”
How much faster would you say? I do a lot of H.264 and foresee going to H.265 deliverables potentially next year. Mostly work in XF AVC (with a smattering of ProRes) and starting to bring more 4K into the workflow, but man, it bogs down horribly on my current setup. Have been doing a heavy proxy workflow, but in the end, quick turnarounds for the final render are a consideration for me.
[Tom Sefton] “Can’t praise the new Mac Pro highly enough – suppose the only consideration is whether apple will release something new in the fall.”
That’s my worry, but then again, if it’s like 2013, then they’ll announce it in the fall and it’ll be Feb/March/April before you can actually get one.
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The only thing I think it can be has something to be with the footage being on a network drive. You can open the same project with files on a local hard drive and it works fine?
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[Finn Haverkamp] “In terms of frame-rate, would you recommend duplicating the 30p frames or chopping the 60p?”
It really depends on the content that is in 30p and your preference for what it looks like when it’s converted up to 60p. It may look fine to you, or it may come across choppy. Best idea is to take a clip and test it out at 60p (rendering out to what will be your final delivery format) and see if you find it acceptable. Also, as I mentioned before, will there be any physical disc output? Because DVD absolutely does not do 60p and Blu-ray can only do 60p in 720 (though for both formats you can interlace it to 60i and keep the motion at the expense of resolved detail).
[Finn Haverkamp] “In terms of resolution, if I publish the thing in 4K, wouldn’t I have to upscale the 1080p (and pixelate the clips)?”
Yes you would, and there are various ways you can upscale that may not be as bad. I am currently in the process of pulling clips from my demo reel that I think will be a part of it for the next year or two (at least) and doing tests on upscaling them for an eventual 4K render/upload of my reel. I am using Instant4K from Red Giant and having good results with the settings I have tested.
I would say if you have more material in 4K than in 1080, that you could think about whether you want to master in 4K. Otherwise, if the inverse is true, I think 1080 would be better suited.
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[Tom Sefton] “Documents a 2 year project working with red raw footage on the new Mac Pro. Brilliant performance.”
And is it still the original one you bought? Did Apple have to service it? What GPUs did you get in it?
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[David Dean] “Does this make more sense? Many thanks for your patience.”
Thanks for the screenshots. Did you try either of the things I suggested? I think my original offering still stands at this point.
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[David Payne] ” Please dont tell me how bad the sound card is. I’m not a pro sound editor and I saw online it has been very popular among premiere users so something is clearly not right with my setup.”
Except when I do a search online for your card, I only see Premiere users having problem after problem. So perhaps the choice of the Sound Blaster Z was not a good one for what you want to do.
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[Chris Smith] “A coworker raves about Davinci . . .”
DaVinci is great. You should cancel your subscription today and move everything over to it. It does everything you need and more.
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I’m unclear as to why the timecodes are an issue. Are you sure the clips were reconnected correctly? The way you described it makes me think he relinked to the wrong clips.