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Yeah it’s a deal I’m very thankful to have. It also helps to have a great monitor to start with. I got the Autocue BM-AC24T before Christmas, and I’m very impressed. I can get very close to what it will look like in the cinema with it.
The times I’m on the Christie is for that final touch right before rendering.
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Haven’t seen that LUT you mention. I use the one that came with Resolve. I’m also grading most of the things going to cinema on a Christie projector, so I know it looks exactly the same when it’s being viewed with an audience.
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I’m not familiar with the ATI cards at all, but I’m sure you cannot use the PC version without flashing it so it works with Mac.
The tech specs should be the same, but performance wise, it’s really up to the drivers they make for Mac. Only nVidia cards (GeForce and Quadro) have CUDA, since this is made by nVidia.
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I always render unscaled for DCI P3 / XYZ deliveries. Haven’t had any negative feedback on that.
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His reference to the GUI is that the card will work well for the purpose of processing whatever is going on in the GUI.
To process video however, it might work. But OpenCL is slower than using a GPU with CUDA. He’s just saying it’s not the optimal setup.
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Does it come with a lens for that price? And what about bulb and cooling?
You would also have to build a machine room for the whole thing, just like in any regular cinema. The cooling needed will make a big hit on the decibel meters.
When we’re in the machine room where the cp2220 is, we can barely tell what the other is yelling because of the noise.
But for that price, I’d actually like to buy one for sure. List price for a new unit (for the cp2220 in norway) is six times that price you got there. Building a machine room would just mean another room I could hide stacks of hard drives and noisy macs.
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I’ve done the finishing touch on a few short films on a CP2220
Let me say this : having a giant screen is both super awesome, and tiring on your eyes in the long run.What I’ve done is output to XYZ directly from Resolve and feed the projector with two dual link HD-SDI. Works great right out of the box.
However, since I’m using a LUT in Resolve, the image will look bad on your PC monitor, unless you use some equipment between the video card and the projector that can convert to XYZ using a LUT, such as a HDLink. I’m not sure if they do two dual link SDI, so you might have to get two of them.
I had a session once with a client that lasted for 8-10 hours straight. My eyes were done by that time and I had an insane headache by the end of the day, so make sure you take some well earned breaks.
No matter how cool it is to use a projector, both for color accuracy and client appeal, I’m not sure I’d grade everything on it. Only for the final touch. I feel I can get very close with the Autocue anyway, and it’s mostly pulling focus towards essential areas of the screen and a bit of black level management after I’ve graded the sequence on the Autocue first.
I guess there’s as many answers and preferences to use of projectors as there are colorists, so don’t take mine as de facto.
Feel free to email me if you have further questions.
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A good alternative is to get a PC with tons of PCI slots. That’s what I’m opting for in the future. Too bad I hate Windows for anything except games.
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I advice you to read through the configuration guide at BMDs website.
The Mac Pro you’re suggesting isn’t quite enough, but it’ll probably do for HD. Any higher than that, and you’re better off with a Mac Pro from 2009 or 2010, be it 8-core or 12-core.
I’m not sure the graphics cards you suggest will do much magic. GT120 or an ATI card will be your GUI card. The card you connect your PC monitor to. The GT8800 might do the job too, I dunno. It’s not officially supported anyway.
As for video processing, I’d without a doubt stick to whatever the configuration guide says. Either a Quadro or a GTX285 (if you can find one, they’re EOL), or a GTX480 for Mac from eBay.
I’d either have a 4-HDD RAID0 internally (with external RAID for backup) or an external RAID with 4 HDDs or more for both speed and security.
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It shouldn’t be a problem. But you’d have to make versions for each clip since they share master timeline and footage.