[Herb Sevush]

Lovely article. I tried to use the piano as a method for teaching my son a “methodology” for learning complex systems – it’s an ideal way to demonstrate how to solve what looks at first like an insolvable problem – by breaking things down to their simplest components and mastering them one at a time, you can eventually play sheet music that seems impossible if you take it all in at a glance. I thought it was a brilliant lesson, but my son thought I was a pain in the neck and I think I might be responsible for his absolute disinterest in music to this day.

On another note, this is the definition of “Clarinet” as found in the Devil’s Dictionary:

“An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments that are worse than a clarinet — two clarinets.”

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Herb Sevush]

The video pointed out a couple of troublesome things – design was focused on non-productive, mostly irrelevant considerations, as opposed to designing for actual use. The case opens from the top (it looks lovely in the videos), which means it can’t be serviced while under a desk, while the MacPro’s size and weight make desktop mounting awkward. I guess this is why the (ridiculously expensive) $400 wheels are an option, dragging this around the floor doesn’t seem like fun. And as noted many places, case removal requires you to disconnect all cables, not just the power cable.

I like the idea of a quiet system, but the MacPro noise level is mostly irrelevant when your connecting to several external raid boxes, each with their own fan system, which is the situation in every small studio I’ve worked in. As for invisible internal cabling – who cares when I’m still going to be running a dozen cables into and out of my various editing components

It would have been nice if the engineers had actually thought about the users ergonomics as opposed to their own design aesthetics, but then again that has been my complaint about everything Apple for the last 20 years.

Here is a link to a PC workstation designed for video:

https://puget.systems/go/152078

at $5.5K it seems functionally equivalent (I’d love to see a speed test comparison) to a 12core 2019 MacPro costing $10.5K. What do I get for the 5K difference other than the ability to run OSX – a cute case, less noise and no interior cabling.

I will admit I was getting ready to shell out the money to move on from my Trashcan, but the more I think about it, the more I’m willing to wait and see what develops.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin\’ attached to nothin\’
\”Deciding the spine is the process of editing\” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Oliver Peters] “Would there have been justification for Apple to produce a headless Mac design that fits between the Mini and the Mac Pro in their lineup? Something with comparable guts to an iMac or iMac Pro, maybe Core i9 based, but expandable and starting at a lower price?”

If Apple had competition for hardware running OSX they would have justification, because there is certainly a market for it. I’m in the market for it, as I’ve said may times here. But much like SONY during the tape era who would hold off on making lower cost machines with higher end specs until pushed by JVC, Apple won’t produce anything unless pushed too by competition. Why make something smaller for less profit when they don’t have to? They might re-evaluate after they see the initial sales on the nMac Pro, but then again they might not.

The specs for a MacPro lite are pretty obvious: i9X processor (or Threadripper if they want to go that way) Radeon vii or Vega GPU, max 128 gig memory, SSD system drive, Thunderbolt 3 etc. Cost between 5-10K. But don’t hold your breath.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin\’ attached to nothin\’
\”Deciding the spine is the process of editing\” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Jacek Golosz] “The system, apps and cache/scratch is located on one disk, and the material.”

This might be one source for your problems. Ideally the OS, The Cache, and the media should each be on their own drives. Especially the OS and the Media; Adobe strongly suggests they not be on the same drive.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin\’ attached to nothin\’
\”Deciding the spine is the process of editing\” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Tom Sefton] “8K 60P in a HDR workspace rendering to 4K Prores, brings roughly 3x speed increase over the top spec iMac Pro.”

From the article it sounds like you’re using the fully maxed out $53K version – is that correct?

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin\’ attached to nothin\’
\”Deciding the spine is the process of editing\” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

if your going to try it the mechanical way I might suggest you shoot closing the book and then running the shot in reverse. Closing the book allows you to take advantage of the natural effects of gravity plus you can frame the final “open book” look exactly as you want.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin\’ attached to nothin\’
\”Deciding the spine is the process of editing\” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

Darn it Oliver, I was ready to order my system and had not even considered getting the afterburner, but now I have to reconsider. I am pretty much solely ProRes multicam with a mix of 4K and HD and that kind of playback has me green with envy. Now I have to consider dropping either my CPU cores or my GPU specs to fit the afterburner into my budget. Grrrr!

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin\’ attached to nothin\’
\”Deciding the spine is the process of editing\” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

Oliver already posted this link in the “Mac Pro and XDR starts on Dec 10″ thread. Nice article.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin\’ attached to nothin\’
\”Deciding the spine is the process of editing\” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

That was hilarious, thanks for posting.

Bill, if you’re not already married, I think we’ve found your soul mate.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin\’ attached to nothin\’
\”Deciding the spine is the process of editing\” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

It’s 8am EST and nothing up yet on the Apple site, not that I’m interested or anything …

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin\’ attached to nothin\’
\”Deciding the spine is the process of editing\” F. Bieberkopf