[John Pale]

“And since asking about AJA, anyone knows why their Control Room app is still “coming soon” (has been for a very long time?)”

I think they just used the Men In Black memory eraser on that one….

I remember years ago, they announced the Kona 2 would have its own built in codec for offline, called QRes, but then it never happened….Apple eventually introduced ProRes and few people cared….

[John Pale]

What happens if you nest V2 and V1, render the nest, then apply the key that was on V3 above the nest?

[John Pale]

Perhaps you are doing a same as source export but have a mix of codecs in your sequence?

Try doing a video mix down first

[John Pale]

The HP Z820 kind a looks like a humidifier I once owned…just sayin…

Yes, I know it’s a beast and has more cores than the new MP

[John Pale]

Yes. Edit your show then send your master to be converted on an Alchemist or other high quality hardware converter.

You can do it on the cheap, using Avid mix and match…copy your final sequence, do a video mixdown of it and replace the video..open the new sequence in an NTSC project. There should be a green dot on it, indicating a Motion Adapter has been applied. This is not as high a quality conversion as a real hardware conversion, but may be acceptable in some situations.

[John Pale]

I’ve never used this…but you can give it a try, as well…(free)

https://automaticduck.com/products/mc/

There is also this (not free)

https://www.randomvideo.com/products/mediamover_avid.html

Or to stick with doing it manually…

Try it one drive at a time.

Don’t launch Avid yet.

Copy the folder with the media in it…probably called Avid MediaFiles/MXF/1 to the Avid MediaFiles folder on your new target drive. Keep the exisiting database for now.

Take the original drive offline. Launch Avid. Is everything online?

Move on to your next drive and repeat. If the next drive’s media folder is also named “1”, just change it to a higher number and copy it to the same MXF folder as the previous one.

[John Pale]

I don’t think it involves rodents.

They are still a few months away from releasing this thing, so the specs and BTO prices are probably still being worked out. RAM and SDD prices are pretty volatile, as is supply.

There are 4 slots. Assuming there is supply in the fall, you should be able to put 4 x 32 GB Chips in there. If 32’s aren’t available in the fall (or not running with stability in OSX), you’ll have to settle for a measly 64GB of RAM.

I would guess your SSD storage would depend on how much you wanted to spend on internal storage. You can get pretty large capacity SSDs on a PCIe card today, but they ain’t cheap.

[John Pale]

Download TinkerTool (free) and enable “Show Hidden Files”. See what lurks in your Applications folder

[John Pale]

“But… this lovely thing will have to be hooked up to external chassis and boxes to access RAID drives and disk burners and etc. Which kind of takes away from the aesthetic, don’t you think?”

The nice thing about this computer, is its small and quiet enough that you can keep it on top of the desk (looks cool too), just nicely tie wrap your T-Bolt cables and route them through the cable management hole of your console to your ugly gear underneath (or in a rack mount unit).

“I know this is an FCP forum, but will Premiere even run on those double graphics boards? I’m very curious to hear the operational philosophy behind the architecture.”

I read on the AMD site that they are working closely with Adobe on getting these GPUs working well with their software. Grant Petty from Blackmagic says it already screams with Resolve. These are two companies that were heavily invested in Nvidias CUDA technology and despite these being strictly Open CL GPUs, they are fully on board.

[John Pale]

The cooling system/fan is pretty advanced and apparently quiet.
I guess they really do think its going to go on top your desk.