Kevin Johnson
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I’d guess the z800s are closer to 5 years old and were built to Avid specs back then, but the fact that Apple is still selling the macpro with the old hardware is ridiculous. Maybe they are waiting on intel/chipsets/TB3 latest hardware to come out?
Pulling and rendering to ISIS is another factor but can’t imagine that is the bottleneck. Obviously working off a dedicated Raid you could achieve faster speeds but that doesn’t work with our workflow.
AE really needs to implement an easy way for network rendering using available or idle workstations without collecting files beforehand.
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We are a PC house for editorial and ingest although I am a Mac guy so it stings a little bit. I ran the test in the hopes that the Macpro would be scorching fast to maybe justify switching over to Mac for editorial…but alas, the is zero chance our engineering department would switch over to Mac for such little gains. Was it a fair comparison? No. But I would expect a “year old” new Macpro to perform much better than the 4-5 year old workstation. We do a ton of 4k work in AE so that’s where we need it to perform.
We’ll probably end up dropping $10-15k a piece on the latest HP workstations and NVIDIA graphics cards so I’d hope that we would get some nice gains there…and these “old” workstations can be used elsewhere or as render nodes.
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Dual Xeon 2.67- Windows 7.
Macpro was 3.5ghz 6 core, d500’s, 64 GB ramI was rendering 20 frames per minute on the PC, 22fpm on the Macpro (10% faster).
The macpro SSDs were much faster, when rendering internally instead of ISIS, it was 22fpm (pc) to 28fpm (Mac, +27%) -
For what it’s worth, I have a 4 year old HP Z800 with 24GB of RAM, and a crappy nvidia 3800 with 1GB of video RAM. I was hoping my coworkers year old macpro would help with some after effects rendering. 4K comp all greenscreen footage from the Sony F55-hundreds of layers. I was expected the macpro would crush my old PC. They rendered almost exactly the same speed. Really bummed me out.
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I had the same problem as I hadn’t posted in a while. Honestly I thought those buttons were spams ads.
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I do a lot of these 7:1 widescreen videos for projection as well. We use Avid 8.5 which allows for custom frame sizes and playback on ISIS is pretty good with DNXHR footage. I tried to replicate this project in Premiere and gave up after 15 minutes due to a lot of performance issues, crashing, and graphic card wackiness.
I’m looking in to using FCPX because Avid has a lot of quirks when it comes to viewing thumbnails, frameflex, etc when in this project size.
I feel your pain…
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That is called moire, and is caused by too fine of spacing between the recorded lines of resolution. You typically see it on ties and shirts that are too “busy.” You could blur it a couple pixels and use an orange choma key as a matte to isolate it. Here are a couple other suggestions:
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Are you talking about color banding or stepping in the horizontal lines/interlacing of the silver boxes?
DJI drones are notoriously bad with this as they are too sharp and none of their settings or framerates help in this matter. I usually have to take the footage to AE and apply a vertical only direction blur of a couple pixels to smooth it out. The youtube link looks good but if you put it up on an HD monitor you’ll definitely see it.
Kevin Johnson
Autodesk Smoke Artist
FCP Editor
Washington, DC -
In theory if they deleted the dropbox folder, you could recover the files from dropbox.com for up to 30 days. If they had access to the web interface they could really do some damage.
Kevin Johnson
Autodesk Smoke Artist
FCP Editor
Washington, DC -
I can’t imagine having to tell my client “hey, we gotta stop down soon. I know we are a day away from our deadline, but the last 24 hours will be spent transcoding.”
“But we still have changes to make.”
Kevin Johnson
Autodesk Smoke Artist
FCP Editor
Washington, DC