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So basically you needed another system to put your UltraScope in. And BM’s spec said it needed to be a MacPro. So you thought if I’m using a MacPro why not let it do some storage too rather than just scope work.
Bear in mind the the UltraScope will also eat some CPU cycles, so no matter if you have 10GigE between the two MacPros, when the Ultrascope MacPro goes into ‘server mode’ when you run files off it, particularly DPX sequences, you may see some performance difference between UltraScope running or not.
A better bet is to use a cheap PC for the Ultrascope and a good SAS RAID for additional storage.
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Neil Sadwelkar
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The person working at this place reported they found a solution to Media Express 2.3 DPX capture corruption. On the exact same setup, they downgraded to Media Express 2.0.1. And DPX file capture is fine. DPX files read fine in Revival and Color.
So, for them, or in general Media Express 2.3 has an issue with DPX file capture in SD PAL. Which gets solved by downgrading to Media Express 2.0.1.
Along the way, they did try out various Blackmagic Driver versions 8.0.1 through 9.1 Desktop.
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Neil Sadwelkar
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The $1000 DaVinci Resolve License consists of a DVD in a cover. You don’t really need that DVD as the download off the web is the full install. And there’s also a dongle that looks like a USB drive.
So if someone you know just buys it retail in the US and flies down with the dongle, you’re in business.
I come from a country (India) with high import duties too. Out here the Resolve costs the equivalent of US$1500. I bought mine at ‘special exhibition discount of 50%’ for the equivalent of US$ 740.———————————–
Neil Sadwelkar
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I just installed a 470 in my MacPro and connected the power cables to the motherboard directly. Why do you need to go to the optical bay?
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Neil Sadwelkar
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ProResHQ is 10-bit, while some flavours of DNxHD are 8-bit, I believe even Photo-JPEG is 8-bit.
Whatever you go with, in 10 years it may or may have software available to decode it. So you need to watch the market and as soon as ProResHQ shows signs of going away or is not supported by Apple, you need to decode it to some other format.
in 2006, 100-300 GB drives were the norm, in 2001, 5-30 GB drives were standard.
In about 5 years, hard disks will be 4-5 times as dense as now, at about the same cost. SSDs will cost as much as HDDs today for the same size. It may even be possible to store everything as uncompressed. When that happens, converting ProResHQ to uncompressed has the best chances of ‘getting your original back’, sort of.
Just like audio, we don’t think of storing it compressed any more. Its always uncompressed. Even phones and handheld devices can play uncompressed audio.
In 10 years your handheld device will hold 2-4 TB, and your desktop will probably have 100 TB inside it. Larger 3U rack mount hard disks will be Petabytes, probably. We’ll be looking back and laughing at HDV, AVCHD, XDCamEx, DVCPro, AVC-Intra etc. We’ll only smile at ProResHQ.
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Neil Sadwelkar
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Discussion on baseball is what this thread is about.
For the minority of humanity that does not understand the game of baseball, a large part of this thread is devoid of meaningful information.
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Neil Sadwelkar
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At the Asus web site you can compare the two and find differences. I did, and superficially couldn’t find anything that would matter to running Resolve. Stuff like the WS doesn’t have Bluetooth, has PS/2 ports, has Firewire, has lesser USB ports, but 2 more PCIe slots etc.
Prices seem comparable too.
Wonder if there’s something in the WS that specifically affects Resolve.
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Neil Sadwelkar
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I think there is likely to be one more MacPro. The reason it’s long overdue is that the current top of the line i7 iMac is so fast and featured that a MacPro would make sense only if it is faster and more featured than the existing iMac.
And that will happen only when newer chipsets and CPUs are available in volume.
There is also a likelihood that the MacPro in its current form could be discontinued. So, maybe, the ‘new MacPro’ will be like a larger Mac Mini. 1-2 PCIe slots, TBolt ports, onboard GPU etc. Sort of, like an iMac without a screen but with PCIe slots.
Another reason there will be a new MacPro or MacPro replacement is because developers who write apps and drivers for the Mac, need a Pro machine to work on. Something that can interface with large amounts of storage. And scientific labs and universities use Macs with a variety of add-ons in the shape of PCIe cards. And, of course, the broadcast and film industry needs a Pro machine with capture cards. The iMac is not any of these.
Yet another pointer to a Pro desktop machine, is the new TBolt display. Which does not work with the current MacPro. It makes sense with a (future) system that can use it.
Since this is an FCP X forum, it can also be argued that since FCP X, the flagship editing system from Apple does not support any PCIe card, there is no more need for a system that supports PCIe cards. So just like Apple abandoned the floppy, ADB ports, optical drives and other such legacy devices, they may be on the way to abandon a system that uses PCIe.
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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India -
[MIke Guidotti] “They have the feature film market cornered, and have had for a while.”
They’ve had the feature market covered even when FCP was first introduced. In fact for the first 3-4 years FCP didn’t threaten Avid’s feature market. But FCP rapidly covered the TV and non-feature market with is orders of magnitude larger in number of seats. That’s where Avid lost out.
Now, with the ease of acquiring an Avid system and with lowered price, they are for the first time seeing healthy numbers. But even now in the large TV market, FCP has it covered. FCP X may be a setback, but some of the lost seats to FCP will probably end up with Premiere too.
The BM and Aja Kona integration with Avid is a master move, though. And this will make a huge effect to sales. Avid has to just get the price right. I still think the $1000-1500 range is the sweet spot.
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Neil Sadwelkar
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[Sam Cole] “Adobe will go back to India to get cheap buggy software written to remain competitive.”
Meaning what?
If Adobe has been buggy, what does it have to do with the software being written in India?
A fair number of drivers for Apple’s Snow Leopard as well as Lion were written in India. Blackmagic have people from India writing Resolve for them. Avid too has Indian software developers on their team. Launch Adobe Photoshop and the splash screen shows up a fair number of software engineers from India.One could just as easily say many American companies are in dire straits because ______ people people don’t the first thing about doing business (fill in appropriate race/ethnic/religious group)
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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India