Jack Jones
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I spoke to the guys at BMD about this. It’s todo with the processing as much as anything, keeping your scopes realtime is pretty tough for scopes of UltraScope’s quality. Hamlet, Omnitek, Tektronics are all essentially the same, if only in smaller shells sometimes.
Personally, I use the UltraScope with my FilmMaster suite and find it to be incredibly useful as an extra machine. I use it to do any prep work I need to via Avid, as well as having it for separate encoding tasks such as 185 X transcoding or RED to OpenEXR for VFX.
I don’t really want to slow down the most valuable and high performance system purely to get some scopes!
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This feature is available on my FilmMaster system through just the single 3G SDI port. I have the option of rescaling my SDI picture and can zoom/1:1 as well as do two up over a single SDI port in compare mode.
Should be easily possible without going 3D
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If you’re thinking of the Linux version it’s worth seeing what the competitors offer for the same value.
Esecially Digital Vision as you can probably get a Nucoda HD for a similar cost. Defo Fuse. Baselight always costs a little more, and in my opinion aren’t as flexible pricing wise.
The guys at Digital Vision were quick to say, ‘buy your own machine’ if you like and attempted to cut the costs where possible.
I’m on the verge of giving up waiting on DaVinci OS X. It looked amazing when I saw it but I’m not sure Apple are on the same wavelength. As for Linux, if I’m going to spend that much my prefered choice is always Digital Vision mainly due to it’s excellent multitrack functionality as well as it’s tracking, new keying technique, single machine expandability, great support and especially it’s noise reduction ‘clarity’.
I think it’s always wise to assess the whole market, new tools are being created everyday.
See you at the DV stand at IBC to check out their incredible new panels!
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I don’t get any of this?
If you’re having a DaVinci setup surely the point of that system is to grade. Therefore if you have Color as well surely you’ll decide which you prefer and use that most of the time… They both do the same thing just in different ways and with slightly different toolsets.
I’m simply going to buy a second Mac Pro and use one machine as my grading suite and use the second for encoding, playouts and prep work.
I tend to find it makes most sense to have a machine that does a job and to configure it so that is what it’s best at.
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Scratch is lame in my opinion. Just laying out my honest opinion. It has great metadata and was the first to work with RED but seriously, not good.
If you’re going the Windows route then look at Digital Vision’s Nucoda Fuse or HD. Proper grading equivalent to that of Baselight, and in many areas better, at a fraction of the cost.
Again it’s a single machine system on Win7.
New GPU drivers and cards due very shortly of Mac. Hold out for a little if you can.
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Correct. Has to be a separate machine.
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Just to be devilish!
Mac Pro/MacBook Pro with $20 USB3 PCIe Card and Bootcamp???
Joking… Apple are fools for not offering USB3 iPads, with Twitter connectivity so you can Tweet your current IRE in realtime!
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Wow, you’re racking up these threads!
Yes it does output 2k and 4k. Not sure why you need it unless you’re planning on doing DCPs though… Surely HD1080 for SR is the current requirement.
Check the DaVinci forum on the COW for more specifics. Loads of tidbits on why the pros and cons. I’m getting more put off by the Mac version everyday.
P.S. The costs soon rack up! 2x GPU, Decklink 3D, Tangent/DaVinci controller (is a MUST, no choice of mouse), external scopes (good luck finding those cheap!).
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You can negotiate Nucoda HD for around £75k. Fuse is around £40k.
Baselight is still around the £85k mark UK.
Fuse is a great starting set, followed by the HD in my opinion. Not a huge Baselight fan after having used a CPU Baselight Four. I’m sure it’s better than I remember though.
I think XML might be a little while coming. Baselight’s Avid workflow is great though.
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Glad everyone else is as p***ed as me about this!
I’m actually pretty much off the idea of DaVinci based on this update. Nucuda Fuse looks the right way to go. Now if only I can convince Greg to do me a deal based on my upcoming award!
I was offered a free Scratch for 6 months, might have to take them up on that, although I find the system geared far to much towards compositing.
Grr…
Jack Jones
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