Marcus Moore
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No offence taken.
I’m not so young not to remember all the things you mention. I actually started cutting on film, and my fair share of A/B tape as well, before getting onto an AVID in ’95.
My recollection is that when we finally moved over to FCP it was at the start of the DV revolution. And FW400 drives seemed to be equal to the task of cutting DV/HDV as long as you weren’t doing Multicam. And since FW800 was released, it been good for everything save uncompressed or DVCPro50. That is until these RAW formats started popping up.
Because I fly in and out of jobs, clients sent me the material, and when I send it back to them they take exclusive responsibility for archiving.
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The drive that comes to me is never the only version of the camera originals.
As long as I back up my project files and third party media, I know there’s redant backups of raw media should anything… untoward happen.
Again. I’ve educated and influenced my clients on what drives to buy. FW800 has been the standard for a while, but I’ve started to push TB drives where it makes sense.
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Are we sure we’re sure about the config options? All this hand wringing over dual CPUs could be for nothing.
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Precisely. Over TB, restoring a TimeMachine backup is about an hour for the average HD. Then you’re back precisely where you were.
A failed bootcamping of my wife’s iMac could have ended horribly. But with Time Machine she never knew I did anything wrong (whew!).
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I can only imagine… But there’s been an TB enclosure for a REDROCKET card for a while now. So that’s something you don’t need PCIe for.
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To counter that- I work in several “virtual workgroups”. Some as a defacto partner, and others as a straight freelancer. Over the past 5 years we’ve pillaged loads of business from high-end agencies and post houses. Not necessarily because our prices are that much cheaper [though sometimes we are where agencies have gotten particularly comfortable with huge commercial margins…].
All this is to say that the idea of internal storage in MacPro setup is completely useless to me now. Work comes to me on client-specific drives, and that’s where it lives while I work on the job until I deliver it. Outbound storage allows me to keep clients work compartmentalized and portable. Only when I get material on a USB drive [my iMac is pre USB3] will I bother to copy it to one of my base TB work drives. And as I educate clients to buy TB storage that becomes less and less of an issue.
So this configuration is worth it to me.
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Exactly. Expensive things are expensive. This should not come as a surprise.
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You’ve said it right there. Less RAM, lower-end processor, smaller SSD. Maybe the bottom is $3,999. Maybe $4,999.
With all media storage theoretically outbound, depending on the breadth of software the workstation runs, you might be able to configure it with as little as 256 or 500 GB HD.
But if you’re trying to prove that a maxed out MacPro could run North of 6K, that would be no surprise to me. If you config an iMac maxed out with the SSD that already runs you $4,500. Take off a grand for the monitor and it’s still $3,500.
Once you buy the displays, the 4K setup they pictured would probably be 20K. But for what you can do- that sounds cheap to me when I think about what an SD AVID setup cost only 15 years ago.
As a multi-year business expenditure, it’s a easy decision for me.
* edited to add- when I started my business in 2006. I spent just north of 10K on my MacPro setup.
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I didn’t realize CC was launching that soon.
I’d be surprised if we don’t see an update to FCPX in the near term. June or July is my guess.
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I’ve looked at the image and can’t discern any UI changes from the current version.