[Hamish Boyd]

Just an update on this for those snooping around for info…..

We ordered the system as above and I made a rare smart decision and got Bob Zelin to set it up remotely for us here in Sydney Australia. Best money I’ve spent.
Seriously we didn’t get into this gig making pretty pictures to then learn IP addresses and Ports, and blah blah blah …
and we all think for the most part we can muddle through these things. But watching Bob set it up, and set it up FOR POST PRODUCTION WORK (see I’m using all caps like Bob now) made me realise I would have lost weeks fiddling through it myself. And never really being sure of it.
I now have a smoking fast system, these QNAPs for the price and what you get are ridiculous, and pretty damn happy.

So thank you Bob. I will buy a switcher in time I promise. (buy a switcher people) ☺

[Hamish Boyd]

Thanks Bob, that’s good info…
righto I will get in touch via email. Haven’t ordered anything yet, and just barrelling through few work deadlines at moment. But we’ll get on it shortly.

[Hamish Boyd]

ah yes! The switcher.. um about that…

allow me to ask a stupid Newbie question about it that I don’t quite get. I’ll put it here on forum for other numpties like me to find in time.

If the QNAP has two 10Gb ports and 4 1gb ports in it. why do I need a switcher? Can’t I just directly plug the computers into them?

And the other question in my head I’ve had for ages about a switcher is…

If a switcher goes into say one 10GB port then doesn’t it split that bandwidth out across however many ports the switcher has and therefore slows speeds down?
I might have this all upside down, but yeah a question I’ve been meaning to ask for a while…

Bob, I’d love for you to set us up. I’m based in Sydney Australia, I assume that doesn’t matter if you can dial in over the webs. I will get in touch with you directly.

(Many thanks for your detailed responses here and everywhere else I’ve read)

[Hamish Boyd]

Been having same issues as Felix, haven’t tested new update yet, but will when I can…
As for MacBook Pro itself…

Its ok, Keyboard is a shock in the beginning and I kinda freaked out. Really noisy. but actually you learn to type differently and therefore faster in the end. I now like it. but it takes getting used too.

Touch bar is for me a gimmick, nothing I’ve used on it is anyway a great new thing. Its ok. Its not bad. But it isn’t something to get excited about. Maybe as apps start mapping more stuff too it.
But then you rarely reach up there for anything. Just be careful not to accidentally send emails before they are finished. Send button right there on touchbar. Have accidentally sent stuff.

I got a caldigit thunderbolt 3 dock and thats great to have to just patch everything in at your desk with one cable.

[Hamish Boyd]

well thats good news. Will check at my end asap.

[Hamish Boyd]

Look I get all the Mac walking away from pro etc etc.. and that whole debate.
But I’ve never had a Mac product significantly worse than one 5years before it.
It seems that something is wrong, even if the fact that this might not be the best MacBook they’ve built, its hard to draw a line from that, to performance this underwhelming given all their history till now.
Maybe I’m wrong… And I have bought my last Mac.

I think its an Adobe software on new Mac hardware issue. A guess.

The only thing in the back of my mind that says otherwise is that there isn’t threads upon threads of the same thing, its seems to be a few of us talking about it.

[Hamish Boyd]

I haven’t been able to do some more digging on this, just completely snowed with work.

but I did just try a straight encode speed race between my old 2012 iMac and my new 2016 MacBook Pro.

I HD proResHQ clip, encoding to a Vimeo 720p preset in media encoder.

And iMac beat it by about 20%.
This was encoding straight off the same Small Tree Server we have here.

Unbelievable. I just don’t get why this MacBook Pro is performing the way it is. Even after replacing.

[Hamish Boyd]

Ok brand new laptop swapped out at Apple Store. Just fired it up, cloned back from time machine and opened premiere. Playing out same footage.
As I suspected… same result. drop frames etc.

So here is where we stand: 2 different 2016 MacBook Pro machines. Identical specs – 2.9ghz 16g ram, radeon 460 1tb SSD internal running Premiere CC 2017.0.1 or 2017.0.2 struggle to play a single stream of 4k footage coming in from F5 and Fs7 cams.
mates 2011 MacBook Pro, while not completely perfect with it, Was, we both agreed MUCH better dealing with it. And my 2012 iMac is fine with it.
Same projects, same external drives, same footage same versions of Premiere.

So somewhere I fall in the gap between Adobe and Apple.
I can’t seem to see a whole thread of people with same issues. Only Felix and I.
Seems to be a tonne of reviews suggesting new MacBook Pro should eat all this up, except this isn’t what Im seeing.

[Hamish Boyd]

booked in for this Saturday. Ive been going round the clock with work of late. So just haven’t had time to deal with it.
But apparently there is a machine I can swap it out for. I’ll post here asap when I know how we go.

[Hamish Boyd]

apple shop said they’d just swap it out for a new one. (without actually doing any tests or anything) So I’ll prep a backup of it and return it tomorrow.
My gut says I’d be surprised if it was just this machine itself. But we’ll see.