Martin Curtis
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[Bernard Newnham] “And Pixar might not be interested as it has no CUDA.”
You could always find out.
“We are thrilled to announce full Metal support in Hydra in an upcoming release of USD toward the end of the year. Together with this new release, the new Mac Pro will dramatically accelerate the most demanding 3D graphics workflows thanks to an excellent combination of memory, bandwidth and computational performance. This new machine clearly shows Apple is delivering on the needs of professionals at high-end production facilities like Pixar.” — Guido Quaroni, vice president of Software Research and Development, Pixar -
[Jeremy Garchow] “It’s the … Catalina Wine Mixer!”
Pow!
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[Shawn Miller] “This is why so many motion graphics and 3D artists have left the Mac platform… for Redshift, Arnold, Octane and other Nvidia or CPU hungry applications.”
Mac’s back.????
“Tapping into the amazing performance of the new Mac Pro, we’re excited to develop Redshift for Metal, and we’re working with Apple to bring an optimized version to the Mac Pro for the first time by the end of the year. We’re also actively developing Metal support for Cinema 4D, which will provide our Mac users with accelerated workflows for the most complex content creation. The new Mac Pro graphics architecture is incredibly powerful and is the best system to run Cinema 4D.” — David McGavran, CEO, Maxon
“OTOY is incredibly excited about the all-new Mac Pro and how it will empower our users. Octane X — the 10th anniversary edition of Octane — has been rewritten from the ground up in Metal for Mac Pro, and is the culmination of a long and deep collaboration with Apple’s world-class engineering team. Mac Pro is like nothing we’ve seen before in a desktop system. Octane X will be leveraging this unprecedented performance to take interactive and production GPU rendering for film, TV, motion graphics and AR/VR to a whole new level. Octane X is truly a labor of love, and we can’t wait to get it into the hands of our Mac customers later this year.” — Jules Urbach, CEO and founder, OTOY
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I tok the mention of Adobe CC to mean that they used Photoshop etc for mock ups. Everything else listed for every film was high end stuff that took serious grunt to power. THAT was what I think Apple was getting at.
Interesting to note that there was “additional equipment for final render of some sequences”. I suppose that’s a render farm, which is entirely reasonable.
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[Neil Goodman] “No diss on youtubers but the #1 reason I choose an NLE has nothing to do with a Share button. That might be the 500 reason on my list.”
But that’s what was important to him. That was the catalyst for him to change. As he dived deeper, he found many reasons to stick with FCPX which may keep him using it even if Adobe sorts out their sharing feature.
For the record, I hate the word “share” used in this context. It’s an export, Apple, an export.
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[Steve Connor] “Here’s an update on Phil’s move to the dark side”.
Phillip Bloom goes to the dark side and gets eaten by a grue.
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[Steve Connor] “That may change when they launch the next iPad Pro”
Sometimes I feel like an addict. “The next one will have the features I need and it will be the last one I need to buy. Honest.”
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[Bill Davis] “An iPad Pro as a basic camera/prompter”
Awesome idea. I just found a few apps that do exactly that. Pity the camera on the screen side is HD and not 4k like the one on the other side. -
Take the hit. The negative feelings you’ll leave them with if you even mention it just aren’t worth it. If you want the drive back next time, include a foolproof way of them sending it back to you with zero hassle to them.
Shooters we occasionally use charge us for the hard drive, or offer to drop the footage around for transfer (they’re close).
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Could you use an iRig Pre with a boundary mic on a table to capture the group discussion?