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A bit more PC vs Mac Pro analysis.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-much-mac-pro-cost-as-pc/
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[Tom Sefton] “Even ProRes exports are not speeded up – can anyone else corroborate what we are seeing here?”
I did a couple of reviews of the BMD products. Maybe these will help. The basic eGPU review was before the preference setting was enabled. The Pro review was afterwards. It really depends on the machine you are running. The eGPU products take the load off for display management and accelerate less-powered machine. If you are using a Mac Pro or high-end iMac or iMac Pro, it won’t do much for you.
https://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/2018/08/03/blackmagic-design-egpu/
https://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/2019/03/07/blackmagic-design-egpu-pro/
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[Bill Davis] “The basic problem today is that the entire industry has grown ridiculously accustomed to getting everything so DIRT cheap that they have almost entirely decoupled the value of thing from the idea of paying for that value.”
LOL. Channeling your inner Bob Zelin?! Get off my lawn!
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[Michael Hancock] “With no SDI in, there’s no real way to get an untouched video signal into it”
The display is the most puzzling of this release. Apple is positioning this as a UI display, which seems quite odd at its price post. As a separate grading display, it might make sense, if you add an BMD card to get it a signal. In that sense the price point is attractive.
However, I agree, you should wait to see it in the wild. At the moment, I’m VERY unhappy with the iMac Pro displays. They are the most inaccurate displays in our shop, compared with Retina iMacs, and older Apple displays. Far too red, saturated, and contrasty to make any accurate video judgements.
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[Rich Rubasch] “I planned to bring them into premier and create sequences of Broll and interviews for each client and then media manage those sequences into new folders and back that up. Any better way than Premier?”
Sounds like that may be the best way to approach it. You can use the copy/move Project Manager option if you want to move the whole file without transcoding. However, using Project Manager does still mean you end up duplicating media, at least temporarily.
Another approach could be to use an asset manager like Kyno to better review your files and pick selects, if you wanted to do this at the Finder level before starting the edit.
Or simply leave it all clumped together. Work in separate Premiere Pro projects by client. Then then the edits are done, media manage the final sequences accordingly.
– Oliver
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[Brett Sherman] “Of course this brings up the point of if you’re charging by the day or hour what’s the financial incentive to speed up the process slightly with a Mac Pro?”
Possibly to preserve your own sanity ☺
[Brett Sherman] “the financial incentive for getting the fastest possible machine isn’t there either”
I don’t think it’s a matter of replacing what you have, just because something new is out there. You replace a machine when the time is right – it’s too old, it has problems, you want to run newer software, your video requirements get more demanding, etc.
So then when it is time to make a change, you pick the best machine to match your business projections. Do you have 10 years of productive and improving (or at least not decreasing) business prospects? If so, then maybe this machine becomes attractive. If not, there are plenty of alternatives from Apple and elsewhere.
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[Bill Davis] “It sounded to me kinda like they already have a variety of “white board stage” use cases they are looking at. “
Probably. I would imagine that RED would be one of the first. Maybe also BMD for Blackmagic RAW.
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Rip those files out of the camera card folders (they are useless). Then organize the clips at the Finder level into appropriate folders. Do this before importing them into Premiere.
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[Bill Davis] “In the new MacPro approach, there’s a specific solution (Afterburner) that moves the transcoding load off of both the CPU and the GPU and onto a special programmable processor that is designed to eliminate playback bottlenecks.
“I think it should be noted that this is an extra-cost option. And it’s essentially what RED did with their RED Rocket cards years ago, and now again through their deal with NVIDIA. It’s a nice addition, but frankly, ProRes/PRRAW was not a heavy lift on Apple hardware to begin with. Let’s see if people develop for it beyond those codecs.
– Oliver
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[greg janza] “but using a Das keyboard and Logitech mouse due to the fact that both the mac keyboard and mouse are ergonomic disasters.”
But that’s a personal preferences that others don’t necessarily share. The shop I’m at has 9 stations (MP, iM, iMP) – all with stock Apple keyboards/mice. In fact, I had purchased a set of regular Logitech mice to go around and everyone has gravitated back to the Apple mice. The only thing extra is a tablet that the main AE designer uses.
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