Herb Sevush
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[Terry Flaxton] “All the outboard storage I have – around 90tb of it is esata so there is a reason to keep one machine going at the old level.”
I don’t know what kind of speed your are getting with the 6GB/s eSata raids but I doubt it’s anywhere close to what you can get with Thblt 3 at 40GB/s. I’m doing 2500 MBs with an 8 bay raid 5 and you can go even faster with an SSD raid. I do a lot of multicam editing and disk speed is essential for me.
[Terry Flaxton] “So: “performance of GFX card upgrades”: are you talking about assisting the cores in their work? “
Modern NLE’s offload alot of work to the GFX card’s GPU instead of solely using the CPU cores. Each NLE is different in how they leverage the GPU ( I use Ppro ) but better GPU equals better performance. The available GFX cards for the 2019 Mac Pro are an order of magnitude better thanthe 580x which is available as the base model. A magnitude higher cost as well.
[Terry Flaxton] ” how many cores is relevant? I have 12 at the moment so how many would make that shift impossible not to do? 16 or even 24 maybe?”
You would have to look up the best CPU for the NLE you use. The sweet spot in “bang for the buck” seems to be either 12 or 16 cores. YMMV.
[Terry Flaxton] “And with Catalina as opposed to Mojave (because I can upgrade to Catalina easily enough with the 5.1) so I’ll have three OSX’s working on the same machine at different points) what exactly is that going to give currently? (I get it that it’s a future upgrade situation that is the main selling point).”
The future upgrade aspect is the only reason to be interested in Catalina at the moment. I can’t think of one advantage in terms of daily use at this point. As a side note you are not going to be able to run Mojave and Sierra on the 2019 Mac Pro unless you have advanced programming chops. As far as Apple is concerned nothing earlier than Catalina can run the 2019.
Herb Sevush
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Reasons to upgrade:
Thunderbolt 3, which makes a huge difference when dealing with external raids and drives.
GFX card upgrades, blowing away the performance of the 580.
Catalina compatibility (and all future OSX upgrades)Are these enough to justify the cost? YMMV.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Rod Abernethy] ” I’m a studio engineer, so I know how to edit audio seamlessly. But since I’m working with video and 30 frames per second I find that I can’t move my video tight enough.”
Your issues have nothing to do with frame rate. Musicals have been cut at 24 fps for almost a century, silent films were beautifully cut at 18 fps.
There is a craft to cutting images that is different from the craft of cutting sound, and lack of experience and knowledge is your problem, not the frame rate.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Hope you are yours are all good over there in NY.”
All good here, hope all is going well for you in the windy city.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Jeremy Garchow] “I was expecting a Spring FCPX release. It has happened nearly every year since release.
2012, 13 , 15, 16, 18, 19”
… mathematically, the next number in this series is 21, not 20.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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if you go with BAAA then we can have a theme song :
” OOOWWWooh … I mean Baaahh … Baaa ???”
( The last seconds of Little Red Riding Hood by the immortal Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs)
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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Do you have sync timecode ?
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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Avoid Catalina. If you can’t avoid, install Catalina from scratch and then re-install all apps. Don’t migrate anything but data.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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\”Deciding the spine is the process of editing\” F. Bieberkopf -
I’m working concurrently on two PBS cooking shows with a small team of editors, one in Pennsylvania, one in New York, and two in Boston. We each have duplicate raids for each series (32 TB and 24 TB) and swap project files (Ppro and AE) as needed . We upload our cuts to Kollaborate, where the producers, who work out of the main office in Boston, review and post their notes.
As of today the Boston office is closed and all the producers are working from home. From the perspective of our editorial workflow there has been no change to our output or efficiency. We have been working this way for many years, and I have been editing at home for the majority of the last 30 years.
On the other hand I am also the Director of these shows, and originally we were scheduled for a 3 week shoot starting in May, with rehearsals and meetings scattered throughout March & April, all of this at the Boston main office where we shoot our shows. First we cancelled all the March rehearsals and then as of yesterday we postponed the shoot for 3 weeks. I’m guessing this will not be the last postponement.
With a stay at home population desperate for entertainment and distraction, I’m fairly confident that these shows will get made sooner rather than later. As an out of shape and overweight elder I’m hoping that I will be available when the call comes. As the husband of a hospice nurse who cares for those most susceptible to this virus, and an idiot son who is staying in NYC rather than coming upstate to live with me out of fear of getting me sick, I have bigger worries to think about.
As for the future, I believe in de-centralized editing, as long as you can trust your editors. Production, by it’s nature, cannot be anything but a high contact sport. Content is in demand, money is honey, and if they had TV during the bubonic plague you would find newsmen/women out in the field covering it. With garlic around their necks.
Good luck to us all, and I think everything will work out fine (the virus is not the plague.)
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin\’ attached to nothin\’
\”Deciding the spine is the process of editing\” F. Bieberkopf -
Which is why we all love Bob.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf