[Nicholas Zimmerman]

This is a fantastic batch of resources! I’m going to look more into the PHP thing in particular, as a simple web interface to combine files sounds like exactly what we need.

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While Apple themselves have not released any updated methods of exporting QT References, they have added the features needed to build them in AVFoundation. We’ve reached out to several developers, and the possibility of creating these files with the modern frameworks appears to be very doable, it just hasn’t been done yet. Regarding the breaking of these files, that really isn’t a concern for us. These are essentially temporary alias files that are dropped into a Vantage farm to generate countless (i.e. hundreds) of different encodes. Once those files are generated, the reference QT is immediately destroyed. Duplicating this media would create hundreds of terabytes of temporary files every month, which is not conducive to this workflow.

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While adding support for image sequences is great, this is describing encoding a video, not creating a reference Quicktime, which is just a tiny .mov file (<1MB), that references the original media instead of encoding new media.

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Intel was showing off Thunderbolt 3 at SIGGRAPH last year running on a USB-C connection. It wouldn’t surprise me at all to see Apple put 2-4 USB-C/TB3 ports and nothing else on it. It seems like they could have included TB3 on the Macbook, but chose not to just because it’s not the type of machine that needs a premium connection of that sort.

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I never really thought of them as having an aversion to NVIDIA. My Mac Pro 1,1 came with a terrible Geforce card stock, my rMBP (2013) has a Geforce discreet GPU, my new MacBook Pro has ATI cards, and my Mac Mini runs Intel. Each Macbook Pro I’ve owned (four at this point) has had what felt like a random ATI/NVIDIA card. Apple really doesn’t seem married to one brand over the others, they’ve swapped back and forth several times in the ten-ish years since adopting Intel CPUs. Right now they seem to be entirely ATI, but I figured that was just because ATI had the best compute / power / price ratio at the time the machines came out. We’re due for a refresh of almost the entire Mac line, and it wouldn’t surprise me the least to see NVIDIA cards end up in a few of them.

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Yup, the way they’re angled you can’t really tell. OSX’s scaling keeps Windows the exact same size between displays which is super nifty. At the moment I have a 10-bit 55″ UHD TV for client viewing. I run UHD from FCPX via HDMI, and 2k via my Thunderbolt Ultrastudio Express. Want one of their 4K models now that I’m coloring a lot of 4K, but I don’t want to drop $3,000 and their $1,000 one is in need of a refresh.

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Accidentally double posted instead of editing, and I can’t figure out how to delete the post now…

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I’m running a curved LG ultrawide with a 4k LG panel. Personally, I love the layout. In FCPX I keep the viewers on the second display and it gives me the real estate to have a huge Timeline and Events Browser, with the viewers and scopes both up on the 4k. Honestly, I’ve yet to find many things that don’t benefit from it (although it’d be nice to rearrange Resolve to make better use of it).

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Even though it’s EOL (and not nearly as great as DVD Studio Pro), I tend to use Encore for all of my authoring needs. Encore’s biggest fault is that it’s missing the logic based scripting of DVDSP, but the fact that I can burn a DVD & Blu-Ray from the same project and include motion menus makes up for not being able to add easter eggs.

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This is one of my all time favorite plugins, Reel Smart Motion Blur.

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