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[greg janza] “Post Covid, I can envision going into an office a couple times a week but there will be no need or desire to work in a dedicated office setting all of the time. As a society it’s becoming abundantly clear that there’s a large amount of wasted time in the commuting process. And so it will be very helpful to think in terms of partial commuting instead of full-time commuting.”
I guess as someone who is living that reality, I don’t see it that way at all. Maybe in small shops without shared storage and no need for collaboration. But, I’m the one who’s going into the office so that others have access to the media and it’s a VERY inefficient process. And the communications is cumbersome, in spite of phones, e-mails, text messages, Frame, and Slack.
You’ll note in those videos, that most of these workflows work with proxy media. And there’s a lot of infrastructure going on to move high-res media around in these videos.
In the case of colorists (LightIron), it works because the colorists were sent home with very expensive gear (Baselights, nMPs, Sony 300 displays), working in rooms that are hardly acceptable for the high-end spec (paint, lighting) that has always been preached. I work with clients using remote R&A all the time. I can tell you that final color correction passes are the least conducive to satisfied clients. Just consider how subjective everyone’s interpretation of color is and the variations in displays. Probably the same for mixes. Certainly anything mixed 5.1.
While it may be the future, I don’t see it happening anytime soon and being SOP. Outliers? Sure. The norm? Color me highly skeptical ☺
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[Mark Raudonis] “Finally, I strongly believe that we will NEVER go back to “always in the office”. Over the last 10 weeks too many people have proven that post CAN function quite nicely remotely.”
I’m curious about that. There are many situations before Covid’s WFH reality where people didn’t always work from the office. And likewise there will be cases again in the future. Editors, mixers, artists, animators, VFX, colorists – all examples where people were able to work at a distance in the past, regardless of Covid. But, is that the best way to work when location/proximity isn’t the issue? And will it increase simply because we found a way to muddle through it?
Playing devil’s advocate… As a business, are you going to subsidize/indulge the editor who wants to work from home by supplying hardware/software, shuttling or uploading media, and absorbing the inefficient workflow as a result? Or, are you going to expect that editor to eat those costs? Not to mention the potential wage/hour law issues that may arise. Versus, simply hiring an equally talented editor who will work at the office?
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This seemed to have been resolved by about 4:30 ET yesterday. So if you needed to get work done yesterday and were affected, then you were outta luck.
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[Bob Zelin] “The internet infrastructure in the United States is terrible.”
Actually that’s true for most of the world.
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[Eric Santiago] “Do you have any experience with PostLab?”
I reviewed it – the link was in the article ☺
https://www.fcp.co/final-cut-pro/news/2233-a-first-look-at-postlab-cloud-for-fcpx
I like it, but don’t currently have a need to use it for FCPX collaboration. So I’m not active with it at the moment. But, it’s really the only true, working FCPX collaboration solution – even on-prem within a facility.
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[Bryan Roberts] “In my mind, because it’s sooo expensive, it should be bullet proof”
LOL. Tell that to the people who had laptop keyboard issues ☺
But in any case, go through the “process of elimination” troubleshooting steps and see if any of it helps. Good luck.
– Oliver
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You are running Boot Camp on a VERY expensive new Mac Pro just to run Steam games! Yikes.
My point is that Catalina is a very different OS with plenty of changes, including how the hard drives are controlled. Plus the nMP is very different than any other Mac. This is a new combination that Apple has probably tested under very limited, known and blessed configurations. I just think that’s the root of your problem.
As far as the games, why don’t you simply set up the old 2009 Mac Pro with Boot Camp/Win 10 only for use as a gaming machine? That would have been safer. At least then you would have an idea how the nMP performs under “normal” conditions.
But let’s assume that isn’t the issue. How does the machine boot when you remove the 3rd party PCI cards? Do you have a mix of Apple and 3rd party RAM? If so, yank out one brand and then the other to see how it behaves when RAM isn’t mixed. I’ve heard of issues when Apple RAM was combined with other RAM on these machines.
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Why are you running Boot Camp/Windows 10? Seems like that’s just begging for trouble. Especially considering that would be a combination that hasn’t been in the wild very long and probably has never thoroughly been tested by Apple.
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[Derek Charles] “What are the best bangs for my buck right now?”
Honestly, I couldn’t tell you. I’m mainly a Mac guy and have never built a custom PC on my own. Just too much of a science experiment for my taste. Although I’ve owned several PCs for editing over my career and we have a few in the household for general purposes.
If you go to Puget Systems’ site you can see the various configurations that they suggest. My comment regarding the AMD versus the Core i9 was based on my previous review of their PC. That was configured with an Intel and it seemed to get slightly better results and maybe a bit more stable. But both options were very solid overall.
– Oliver
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My Vegas review might be helpful. I tested this with a custom Puget PC. I loosely describe the specs they used in the article. And I compared performance with Resolve and Premiere Pro.
https://www.provideocoalition.com/review-vegas-pro-17/
– Oliver
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