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Matt Fannin
July 2, 2014 at 2:59 am in reply to: 10 Gigabit Networking – Are there affordable NICs out there?

Thanks! I’m surprised at the NZ price on that SANLink box though – $1,199.00! That’s definitely not the exchange rate haha.
Matt Fannin
July 2, 2014 at 2:56 am in reply to: 10 Gigabit Networking – Are there affordable NICs out there?

Also, correct me if I’m wrong, but we’re talking purely about capabilities of ‘streaming’ the data. With a faster connection, and faster disks, there is much room to speed up the rendering of the output. While the gigabit connection may be fast enough for working, it can be a real bottle neck when it comes to rendering it out. I often check disk usage when rendering and its sitting right up at max constantly.
Matt Fannin
July 2, 2014 at 2:34 am in reply to: 10 Gigabit Networking – Are there affordable NICs out there?

Indeed, you’re correct. Forgot that conversion. Though I just noticed the GH4 can do 200 with All-Intra as well. Mostly though the things I’m wanting to remedy are large sustained file copies (particular for moving project files to work on, and to ‘offline’ completed work to the server), as well as those big DPX and other renders for when I need to.
Matt Fannin
July 1, 2014 at 11:33 pm in reply to: 10 Gigabit Networking – Are there affordable NICs out there?

Woa, hold on a sec there.
The last film I completed Was shot in DNxHD with a bit-rate around 180-190mbps, using an external recorder.
The bit-rate of the Panasonic GH4 is up to 100mbps at 4K resolution – and that’s hardly an expensive pro camera.
Until recently I was experimenting with grading that footage in Adobe Speedgrade, which for a while only worked taking dpx, which meant rendering out the large files (even if they could be deleted later). Software like maya and nuke also work with such large still image sequences. I don’t see those workflows as so ridiculous.

It’s not a question of budgets and solutions being fit for purpose. This isn’t some poor business decision that’s going to see a client project end in a catastrophic failure, because there isn’t a client. I’m just an enthusiast looking to experiment, learn, and play with some new stuff, the same as someone else would spend $1000 on sport equipment, or some other general interest.

Is that so wrong?

You’re 100% correct though – I meant thunderbolt ‘DAS’.

Also I live in New Zealand.
Matt Fannin
June 20, 2013 at 10:25 pm in reply to: Working with files from Final Cut Pro – what should I request the exports as / how to export uncompressed from Final Cut?

So like ProRes 422 HQ you recon ? Or would you go 4444 ?