Jeff Bernstein
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I can say with confidence that you probably have a bad X800. We have a ton of workstations outfitted with the X800 with no issues.
Jeff Bernstein
Digital Desktop Consulting
Apple Pro Video VAR
XSAN Certified323-653-7611
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There is plenty of software that will take advantage of the eight cores. Any software that is decently multi-threaded will automatically take advantage of the additional cores. The biggest boost in the arm will come with AE 7 married to Nucleo Pro. It will be off the hizzle! FCP Studio apps should also take advantage of the extra horsepower.
Since Photoshop is really a RAM strapped application, you won’t see much improvement with it.
While it is great the Apple finally came to the quad-core party, it is unfortunate that they chose not to rev the motherboard. It would be nice if we had more lanes for PCI Express. I wouldn’t mind it being rackmountable, while we are at it.
For those interested, the Dual-core Intel-Macs are upgradable to Quad-Core. They chips are pin-compatible and do not require any motherboard modifications. You can use off-the-shelf chips. The bad news is that the new chips strain and possibly overtax the Power Supply. Thus, I think the other change to the new box is a bigger Power Supply.
See y’all at NAB.
Jeff Bernstein
Digital Desktop Consulting
Apple Pro Video VAR
XSAN Certified323-653-7611
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I think everyone has to keep everything in perspective. Disney’s current standard for digital projection is 1920×1080 HD. I don’t recall anyone complaining about the last Pixar release because it was too soft or they could see the pixels in the movie theater. Heck, look at the last 3 Stars Wars. Again, all 1920×1080 HD.
The fact is that 1920×1080 is damn good, especially when you compare it to a typical print that gets to the movie theater. I think someone determined the equivilant print after all the noise, dust, and other stuff gets about 700 lines of resolution.
If you look at 2K, well, I think it is a total waste of time and money. It is a 4:3 format that matches the true aperture of 35mm film. Once you crop it to a wide aspect ratio, you are usually at less than 1920×1080. Thus, one of the few benefits of using 2K would be using a log color space, which you can do with HDCAM SR.
Personally, I think “2K” is a term people latch on to and think “Wow. That must be better than HD”
Am I missing something?
4K is a different story, however. There are technical advantages in its quality. As others have mentioned, there are big technical hurdles in storage and display. For the record, you would want the Sony 4K SXRD projector. It is killer.
Jeff Bernstein
Digital Desktop Consulting
Apple Pro Video VAR
XSAN Certified323-653-7611
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Parallels nor any VM offers Video Hardware Acceleration. Thus, performance would be horrible. Stick with Boot Camp. Parallels is good for Office Productivity apps.
Jeff Bernstein
Digital Desktop Consulting
Apple Pro Video VAR
XSAN Certified323-653-7611
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In doing green screen, you need to avoid compression artifacts at all cost so that you can have the cleanest keys. Otherwise, you will be wasting a ton of time and money cleaning up the keys. For capture, stay away from DV and DVCAM. In fact, also stay away from any format that uses either a 4:1:1 or 4:2:0 color space.
As to SANs, I would also check out MetaSAN. We find it to be simpler to administer, more versatile, and more stable than XSAN. Did I mention their incredible support? Check it out here…
https://www.tiger-technology.com/
Jeff Bernstein
Digital Desktop Consulting
Apple Pro Video VAR
XSAN Certified323-653-7611
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If I were you, I would give it another try with the Logging feature on. I have never seen MetaSAN blow a drive, even using betas. The fact is that Tiger Technology’s support is absolutely phenomenal. They are responsive and timely.
In your case, they can’t fix what they don’t see. From the extended logs, they can see what is going on. If the logs don’t tell the whole story, they can then WebEx into your system as well. What’s really cool is that not only will Tech Support get involved, but the engineers typically do as well. They care a lot and it shows.
Thus, I would highly recommend giving this another try so that you can capture the issues in the logs so that they can help you troubleshoot.
If you are using volumes that are >2GB, make sure you follow the special instructions.
Jeff Bernstein
Digital Desktop Consulting
Apple Pro Video VAR
XSAN Certified323-653-7611
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Yup. 1035 was once part of the Sony HDVS format, also once labeled 1125/60. It was later relabeled 1035 to correspond to the active lines. Furthermore, this system worked on the first 2 generations of HDVS equipment which first came out in 1988. I used to work on these systems. The second generation took the Saticon tube camera with a bunch of noisy fans to the first HD CCD. It also ushered in the dawn of a digital HD VTR. The first generation used a modified 1″ VTR sped up, amongst other things. The first production digital HD VTR was created by Hitachi and included 8 channels of digital audio. Interestingly, this VTR also used 1″ using metal tape.
Watch out, the usual 1035 format runs at 60Hz, not 59.94Hz.
History class dismissed. Pop quiz in 5 minutes!
Jeff Bernstein
Digital Desktop Consulting
Apple Pro Video VAR
XSAN Certified323-653-7611
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You got it. For that last day, I had to sleep by the enclosed pool on deck along with a ton of other refugees from the front of the boat. It must have been 20′ seas! It took 3 days for my hotel room at MacWorld to stop moving!
Jeff
Jeff Bernstein
Digital Desktop Consulting
Apple Pro Video VAR
XSAN Certified323-653-7611
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You are both right. The Digi-Beta Camcorders are actually 8-bit, whereas the studio recorders are 10-bit. Crazy, isn’t it?
Speaking of 10-bit, did anyone catch that Panasonic’s upcoming AVCHD format has a high-quality 10-bit mode?
Jeff Bernstein
Digital Desktop Consulting
Apple Pro Video VAR
XSAN Certified323-653-7611
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Speaking of small world, did you know that Walter and I went to college together?
Go Orange(men)!
Jeff
Jeff Bernstein
Digital Desktop Consulting
Apple Pro Video VAR
XSAN Certified323-653-7611