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John Davidson
February 3, 2014 at 6:31 pm in reply to: No audio in on new Mac Pro

Haven’t these combo jacks been standard in all new macbooks and imacs for over 2 years?

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
John Davidson
January 28, 2014 at 10:51 pm in reply to: So networked external storage is NOT cool? Only SANs?

That doesn’t mean I am in love with sparse disks either, but it’s just the best / easiest solution for us, for now.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
John Davidson
January 28, 2014 at 10:50 pm in reply to: So networked external storage is NOT cool? Only SANs?

I wasn’t happy with NFS performance over 10Gbe. Perhaps it’s better now, but it’s still kind of a hot mess IMHO.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
John Davidson
January 28, 2014 at 6:12 pm in reply to: So networked external storage is NOT cool? Only SANs?

You have to do Sparse Disks for what you’re wanting to do. It’s what we do.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
John Davidson
January 26, 2014 at 10:14 pm in reply to: Changing my recommendation re fusion drives vs SSD’s

It’s impressive, right? Here’s one funny thing we noticed. The 2013 iMacs max out at about 700MB/s read / write, which matches the speed of the SSD in the Macbook air. 700 is still great, but I guess Apple went with a different SSD for the iMacs and Airs.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
John Davidson
January 20, 2014 at 10:42 pm in reply to: Don’t Own It Yet

I think it just came up in the import dialogue. I believe it broke apart clips from camera start/stops like the old FCP did.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
John Davidson
January 20, 2014 at 10:02 pm in reply to: Don’t Own It Yet

ProRes footage imports just fine. Also, we connected and digitized hours and hours of old HDV and DV tapes from a Sony Z1U last month, so I can confirm that works.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
John Davidson
January 19, 2014 at 8:28 pm in reply to: Changing my recommendation re fusion drives vs SSD’s

Our technical philosophy is that anything over 3 years old needs to be replaced (drives, macs, storage, etc) if there’s a better solution available. I think it’s easier for us to adhere to this philosophy since we sell creative, not post. Post is merely bundled into our creative.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
John Davidson
January 19, 2014 at 12:32 am in reply to: Changing my recommendation re fusion drives vs SSD’s

But, you know, this…on a laptop.

When asked whether to get fusion or SSD, I now suggest SSD. I don’t think anyone should seriously edit off of it – that’s why we have big RAIDs, but it’s pretty kick-butt when you’re on the road and need to slap something together.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
John Davidson
January 18, 2014 at 2:41 am in reply to: To Editors thinking of switching to FCPX 10.1

[james Lackleter] “Yes, I’m saying editors don’t use FCPX. Not in LA, not in NY. Not for film, not for broadcast. This is a fact.
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I feel like Marty McFly when his hand started becoming invisible.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

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