Jamie Allan
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Have you been working with R3D and 5D media in the SAME EDL ? If so, whats your advice for getting the conform to work correctly when mixing timecode/non-timecode media?
Jamie Allan
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If you’re coming from HDCAM SR I would suggest that you conform back to uncompressed QT or DPX as you will retain alot more of the quality from the format here.
ProRes is fine for your offline, and is fine for grading if you’re coming from a format that is more compressed than ProRes (H264, XDCAM et al) but if your aquisition format is higher quality (R3D, HDCAM, ARRI, Film) you should certainly look to online in uncompressed before delivering.
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You’re mixing up processing and bandwidth issues there Ola.
DPX will of course struggle over eSata as the required datarate is alot higher than all the other formats you mention.
It is, however, the easiest to process as each frame is individually presented and not wrapped in any compressed or uncompressed video format.
R3D’s data rate doesnt really go much higher than 40MB/s but is the only currently supported codec that requires co-processing as it requires the most unpacking and debayering out of all compressed RAW codecs at the moment. You do, of course, have the option of lowering your resolution and debayering quality which for most jobs will still give you good enough quality to grade properly.
ProRes is a very efficient i-frame codec with alot less information contained within than R3D which makes it alot easier to unpack. It’s also been written by the same company as Quicktime and as such should be de-coded very well by their hardware. My tests with prores have been very good.
Your worst codecs for creative work (editing & online) are the horrible MPEG2/MPEG4 based acquisition codecs that inhabit most professional cameras as they require alot of CPU processing and have no options for co-processing. All of these codecs (H264, XDCAM, DVCPRO et al) should for the most part be avoided unless your workflow is designed to handle them properly (IE – NRK standardising on IMX50 for their entire broadcast network)
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“Seeing as the GTX285 for mac is nearly impossible to purchase, and its seems no new Cuda cards are coming to the mac.”
I would expect to see new cards close to Jan 2011 considering the 5000 and 4000 series were updated & announced yesterday by NVidia
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Sorry – realised there is another option
On the FCS install disk there is a Qmaster node installer package in the Extras folder, if you install that it will give you the required Quicktime components – and a few others:
AppleAVCIntraCodec
AppleHDVCodec
AppleIntermediateCodec
AppleProResCodec
DVCPROHDCodec
FCP Uncompressed 422
IMXCodecJamie Allan
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Actually – I’m not sure about that
Will check and get back to you
Unless anyone else knows whether or not I just completely made that up?
Jamie Allan
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Remote grading is regularly used amongst the larger facilities when either sharing a project between offices or working with DOPs/Directors in other countries.
I believe Scott Pilgrim was recently worked on in this manner between two Ascent/Company 3 locations.
Lots of new features in there, and more on the way 😉
Jamie Allan
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Jamie@Jigsaw24.comJigsaw Systems Ltd. – IT & Broadcast specialists for the UK
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Hi Josh,
If the Avid MediaFiles is seen as a standard directory that will be fine. You just add your volume media paths into the preference pane and they will be in your browse window.
ProRes support is not free – you’re required to have FCP on the system (Or another program that will install the licensed ProRes codecs into your Quicktime library)
Cheers
Jamie
Jamie Allan
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12 Core MacPros will give little difference to Resolve on Mac, especially as we’re unsure as to the compatibility of any CUDA based GPUs.
If the FX4800 and GTX285 are compatible then there is little doubt that the software will work, but I doubt it’ll be qualified until fully tested.
The current 8-core configuration will still be available (Remember this update has not removed the Quad and Dual-Quad machines) and is what we’ll still recommend until Blackmagic engineers tell us different.
Tests wont be done until Blackmagic have done alot of tests and we’re not expecting the new machines before September.
Jamie Allan
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I dont quite understand alot of the responses to this annoucement, anyone who realistically thought that Apple would make any major changes in this update hasn’t paid enough attention to the previous MacPro revisions & all the rumours surrounding this one.
Nobody was actually expecting USB3, faster FW protocol or more PCIe slots – which would of meant a complete redesign of the entire system! For those sort of updates you’d hear something solid from Apple as there would probably be new patents, developer updates etc flying around the web
The quad and eight core systems are still essentially the same, so nobody needs to be too worried about qualified system specs at the moment. NVidia will be working on the new GPUs but until then I’m fairly sure the GTX285 and FX4800 will still work fine.
If anything this gives alot of people the opportunity to pick up an ex demo or EOL model, saving a few hundred £ and still getting a system that the software has been designed to run on… 😉
Jamie Allan
Post Production Consultant
DaVinci Specialist (Linux/Mac)
Jamie@Jigsaw24.comJigsaw Systems Ltd. – IT & Broadcast specialists for the UK
https://www.jigsaw24.com
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