Marvin Holdman
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I know better than to ever presume to make a point with you. Just rolling in the mud a bit on a warm day.
Cheers.
Marvin Holdman
Production Manager
Tourist Network
8317 Front Beach Rd, Suite 23
Panama City Beach, Fl
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Oops, price changed. Was different two weeks ago. Thanks for the heads up.
Marvin Holdman
Production Manager
Tourist Network
8317 Front Beach Rd, Suite 23
Panama City Beach, Fl
phone 850-234-2773 ext. 128
cell 850-585-9667
skype username – vidmarv -
But Bill, Final Swing Pro X (FSPX) levels the playing field, fine tennis players opinions are irrelevant now. The game of tennis is changing and skills is no longer needed.
Marvin Holdman
Production Manager
Tourist Network
8317 Front Beach Rd, Suite 23
Panama City Beach, Fl
phone 850-234-2773 ext. 128
cell 850-585-9667
skype username – vidmarv -
cheaper on newegg.com
Marvin Holdman
Production Manager
Tourist Network
8317 Front Beach Rd, Suite 23
Panama City Beach, Fl
phone 850-234-2773 ext. 128
cell 850-585-9667
skype username – vidmarv -
We just installed the cuda drivers and it seems to work fine. We did, however, install those drivers while logged in as the root. Lion’s permissions have changed and the “admin” no longer is part of the root group (or wheel group, to be more specific). Here is an interesting post regarding the matter;
https://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=215562
We did NOT do a clean install, but it seems to work fine.
Marvin Holdman
Production Manager
Tourist Network
8317 Front Beach Rd, Suite 23
Panama City Beach, Fl
phone 850-234-2773 ext. 128
cell 850-585-9667
skype username – vidmarv -
Jeremy Gachow – “Will everyone please remember where we came from?”
We came from a company that didn’t obsolete all of your prior projects. We came from a company that openly and aggressively supported high end professionals. We came from a company that built scalable systems. We came from a company that supported businesses and educational institutions. We came from a company that provided for transitional upgrades. We came from a company that defined who their customers were and supported them.
Sadly, where we came from has little to do with where we are now.
Marvin Holdman
Production Manager
Tourist Network
8317 Front Beach Rd, Suite 23
Panama City Beach, Fl
phone 850-234-2773 ext. 128
cell 850-585-9667
skype username – vidmarv -
Actually, Telestream Episode is the application I was alluding too. I agree that it works quite well as a clustering application. Thing is, you are not using 3rd party plugins with it, nor do you use 3rd party hardware. The model for FCPX seems to be relying heavily on both for functionality. Maybe it is a bold new world, but in every cluster type application I’ve ever worked with, it becomes exponentially more difficult whenever more vendors are added to any specific task (such as editing).
On any given day, we bounce between several applications on hardware that is many times dis-similar (macs and PC”s) with variants in configuration from machine to machine (some have accelerated GPU’s, some not). I’ve never seen a cluster work well in those situations.
If you are saying that we’ll have completely different systems for editing and periphery task (such as data management) then I’d say it has the potential to significantly increase installation cost, add complexity to workflows, creates more IT overhead and ultimately diminish output.
Clustering has it’s place, but I’m not sure how well it’s going to work in today’s typical production installation. When you tie all the machines together, you are only as strong as you’re weakest link. It creates a real “all or nothing” type of scenario for keeping a facility going.
Marvin Holdman
Production Manager
Tourist Network
8317 Front Beach Rd, Suite 23
Panama City Beach, Fl
phone 850-234-2773 ext. 128
cell 850-585-9667
skype username – vidmarv -
Craig Seeman – “they’ll have to focus on clustering”
Ever wonder where the term clusterf@%&k came from? Lord help us if they seriously consider abandoning work stations for “clusters”. For single purpose applications that require no third party software or hardware, it can be practical, if not somewhat tedious to set up (like say, transcoding). But if you are saying this would be a practical solution for implementing a complex shared editing environment with a bevy of third party plug-ins and hardware, then I’d have to ask exactly how you plan on making money spending so much time configuring and troubleshooting your “clustered” editing shop?
No disrespect, but if that’s the solution they come up with to replace the workstation model, then I would have to say they’re going backwards. Of course, given their hubris of late, I wouldn’t put that past them either.
Marvin Holdman
Production Manager
Tourist Network
8317 Front Beach Rd, Suite 23
Panama City Beach, Fl
phone 850-234-2773 ext. 128
cell 850-585-9667
skype username – vidmarv -
Bill Davis – “Unlike today, however, the neighborhood wasn’t over-populated with jerks who were more interested in gleefully pointing out how superior their world view is”
Still dating Ms. Irony, I see.
Marvin Holdman
Production Manager
Tourist Network
8317 Front Beach Rd, Suite 23
Panama City Beach, Fl
phone 850-234-2773 ext. 128
cell 850-585-9667
skype username – vidmarv -
Walter Soyka – “We’re all just reading tea leaves and making guesses.”
That’s one of my biggest problems with all this. How do you make a responsible business decision based on “tea leaves”? It’s one thing to gamble your money as an independent producer, it’s quite another to spend someone else’s money based on shady marketing promises. All in all, the last couple of months has done nothing but move Apple further from any business implementation beyond solo independents. Perhaps that’s what they see as the ENTIRE future of this business, but I can’t help but think that’s a VERY naive viewpoint. Fact of the matter is, while the TREND may be a downsizing of larger shops, it doesn’t mean that they will all disappear. Some projects/business models require teams environments working in some centralized form of a business. This will NEVER go away. For a tool to be considered in that type of environment, it must not only be functional technically, but also viable from an administrative standpoint (think acquisition process). This product lacks most everything required to make it a viable implementation (history, road map forward, support, foreseeable cost of continuing usage).
While I can see SOME of the points that Craig is making in his “Just wait, it’ll be great” argument, the fact is even if the next release is earth shattering, it will be at least 2 years before it can be seriously considered for implementation in just about any facility that I can see existing at that point. While it’s true that any business has the right to make their own decisions, based on whatever whim they desire, it seems a bit irresponsible for Apple to do so much damage to this industry by EOL’ing what has been a major implementation for so many business’s.
Marvin Holdman
Production Manager
Tourist Network
8317 Front Beach Rd, Suite 23
Panama City Beach, Fl
phone 850-234-2773 ext. 128
cell 850-585-9667
skype username – vidmarv