Kevin Cannon
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Hi Rick,
I posted some tests of the 680 a few months ago, I have 3×680 in my main workstation:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/364/749#749
I believe that many of the 2GB versions can be powered internally in the Mac Pro, and all of the 4GB versions need a Cubix. Generally it runs alongside the 570/580 but might have future advantages being a PCI3.0 card. Needs mountain lion.
KC
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Hi Joseph,
I just picked up the Cinegrain indie bundle for a specific project last week, and we were all impressed by the feel (projected nice and large). Mostly were only using the clean grain patterns, but the roll outs etc. look fun as well.
Cheers,
KC
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Hi Mirko,
Resolve lets you enable LTC timecode out from the Decklink 3D+ on channel 16 of the SDI, but you might need an SDI>Analog Audio Disembedder. Basically for use as you are describing, but I haven’t used it with a protools station, just with my iphone.
KC
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Hi Rick,
When I was shopping around for a grading projector about 18 month ago at NAB, I came to that exact conclusion: there were no great options for my needs between $10k and $40k, and for 2K digital cinema work, really just around $60k and up. There were some possible alternates on the horizon then, which I could not wait on, including a smaller LED powered unit from Projection Design (now their website lists as discontinued?). I haven’t been paying much attention since, but I also haven’t heard of any developments that changed the landscape much.
Except that Red promised their 4K-laser-3D-no-calibration-necessary projector by the end of the year for $10k. They promised.
KC
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I use the Tangent Devices’ Element set, but I think that the lower cost options of the tangent wave or MC Color panels are good for the general idea of using a control surface.
KC
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The HD Extreme 3D+ is the best with the possible exception of the more expensive 4K Extreme, which seems like overkill for your purposes.
If you used a projector for color purposes, I imagine you’d do so while having all the lights in the room off. If you have a need to keep the lights up while trying to be color critical, then a plasma would be preferable. Some of the consumer plasmas (panasonic VT25, for example) are pretty good, especially if the colorist is working off a 10-bit reference LCD.
I’m not too sure about audio, but you can always get a SDI > Analog Audio disembedder going straight to powered speakers. Resolve allows you to offset audio to compensate if you find you’re having audio delay issues (I haven’t encountered that).
Cheers,
KC
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Hi Paul,
I think you have a pretty good list of components: the computer, the video interface card (decklink HD+ allows SDI output simultaneous with HDMI), graphics card (GTX 570 is commonly used). If the media is limited to compressed formats like R3D, ProRes or DNxHD, it will be easy to select a storage option (That’s how the students at my undergrad are operating now).
For the monitor and client monitor, I think it would depend on your room and arrangement. With 12 people in the room, have you considered a projector? How large is the room? When students are actually color grading, how many will need to view the calibrated monitor? The FSI CM-170 seems like a good (albeit small) option to have an actual critical display. The 2461w would allow for a few more people to comfortably view it at one time.
KC
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Hi Jesse,
I’ve been using a dual-boot configuration with 8.2.2 on 10.7 and v9 betas on 10.8.
I’ve opened up the same project in both, and did get different results. Mostly it seemed like the difference was coming from this: I did an XML import in 8.2.2 and certain resizes or opacities or whatever were not being supported. The same project in v9b2 or 3 did support more of the XML features, and therefore different results.
Not the end of the world, but on a certain project could be a huge headache. Especially if you have a lot of manual resizes, etc. And there could be more things like this I haven’t encountered.
KC
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I agree with Sushil on just about every point – 3840×2160 is NOT 4K, and many of the 4K’s features that made it appealing for color correction (quad-SDI, XYZ , 12-bit) are gone. Plus it’s twice the price.
Also problematic is that it doesn’t look like BM will offer these features in any card, at any price. Their competitors do, however, and other vendors are incorporating similar features (Flanders Scientific just added XYZ and 12-bit support to their monitors this week, saying it “ensures compatibility with some of the industry’s most advanced 12bit serial digital input/output interfaces”). For the last 18 months there’s been the promise that “any month now” Resolve would get a card that worked for 4096 resolutions over quad SDI in XYZ. Apparently not, and for the first time I feel Resolve could be hamstrung by it’s exclusive use of Decklink cards.
I hope it’s technically possible for them to use the same Decklink 4K Extreme hardware to offer these features with some kind of firmware upgrade, or they quickly release a “Decklink 4K Extreme +”
KC
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Been trying this out for the last couple days. The setup is Mac Mini + Ultrastudio 3D + Scopebox 3.
Successfully handled 1920×1080 signals in 422 single link, and 444 dual-link and 3G.
Successfully handled 2048×1556 signals in dual-link and 3G, at 23.98 and 24 (didn’t test 25 but it’s an option).
The only surprise was the Ultrastudio doesn’t take in 2048×1080 signals, only 2048×1556. So from resolve you have to output at 2048×1556, probably letterboxing. Not a huge deal, but seems backwards.
KC