Paul Dickin
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These videos (on a high-end music production topic) shows where the new Mac Pro comes into its own……
Pt 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIQINCWMd6I
Pt 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9eY3vywjuc
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The 13-inch Macbook Pro (without touchbar) has only two Thunderbolt 3 posts. Connect an external monitor and an external charger, and you can’t connect an external hard drive without unplugging one of the others.
The Mac mini has 4 TB3 ports + 2 USB 3 posts and HDMI for monitoring. Also it has 4 more CPU cores and doesn’t need an external charger.
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To mount an AFPS drive in El Capitan you have to use Disk Utility to re-Partition it as an HFS+ disk for access to it.
However if it is an NVMe PCIe blade drive, then only High Sierra has the drivers to access it, so it cannot be used with an El Capitan Mac.Presumably (if you can mount it) when you begin to install High Sierra on it, the installer will re-format it to AFPS for High Sierra to be installed – that’s what would happen if it were an internal drive, so I presume the same process happens if it is an external drive.
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The Mac mini has a pair of Thunderbolt 3 controllers… This makes it equivalent to the bandwidth and performance of the 2018 15-inch MacBook Pro, and iMac Pro from an I/O perspective.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/11/09/2018-mac-mini-more-repairable-than-2014-model-with-socketed-ram-and-design-choicesIntel JHL7540 Thunderbolt 3 controller x2
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Mac+mini+Late+2018+Teardown/115210 -
All these are over 3 years old, so the condition – and what’s available to you – will determine your choice.
Mac OS Mojave has just made pre-2012 Macs obsolete (mostly because of GPU shortcomings), and next year’s Mac OS promises to make further changes.
Will these changes make the nVidia GSince 2015PUs in the 2012-2014 MacBook Pros obsolete?
Since 2015 Apple has only used AMD Radeon GPUs, so even if the nVidia GPUs survive another year into 2020, obsolescence is on the horizon.
For that reason a 2015 MacBook Pro might be a better buy – unless you can get a good condition older one for a significantly cheaper price.Since you do video, then a discrete GPU will make the most difference – with at least 2GB VRAM if you want to run video grading software like Resolve. Even NLEs will benefit from more VRAM.
The dGPU will mean that you will get a faster CPU.Another thing to factor in is the cost of larger replacement hard drives for these machines, as they use PCI interface blades – fitting a bigger one comes at a significant cost:
https://beetstech.com/blog/apple-proprietary-ssd-ultimate-guide-to-specs-and-upgradesI faced the same choices as you, but in the end got a much newer MacBook Pro 15″ because I think it better to move over to USB-C/Thunderbolt 3, and spend money on new peripherals.
Rather than throwing money at soon-to-be-obsolescent old generation kit.
And because the laptop I got was the best-condition/best value one I could find locally… -
Hi, how long ago was the first iMac set up on this account?
I have had the same problem, and it was because the ‘old’ password didn’t conform to the current format now required, with its mix of lower, upper case and numerical requirements.
I changed the password so that it conformed on the logged-in computer, then was able to get the new one to log in to the account correctly.
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[Tim Wilson] “There’s never been a debate forum here, period, before FCPX.”
There was one, asterisk, in the old days ????
The forum formerly known as *edit (until copyright issues caused the Cow to rename it) was an excellent debate forum in its latter days.
Until Ron got exasperated with the full-on nature of the debate and zapped years of excellent discussions and analysis into the cyberspace trashcan ☹ ;-( :-0 ☹
Years of excellent and informative debate gone. ☹ ;-( :-0 ☹
As a read-only lurker these days, when does this forum get zapped? 😉 -
[David Lawrence] “There was one huge topic absolutely no one was talking about.”
Excellent piece of radio 🙂The one huge topic that most people knew nothing about in 1990?: The understanding of the neuroscience of cognitive awareness.
Daniel Kahneman was able to win the Nobel prize for Economics even though he had no grounding in economics through his analysis of the function of narrative storytelling at the heart of cognition and memory, and the inherent distortions that ‘rational thinking man’ – a non-existent construct – is inherently prone to.
David Eagleman, in this clip, talks about the mechanism the brain uses in its perception of ‘reality’, which is a dynamic modelling process.
“Moment to moment what we experience isn’t whats really out there, instead its a beautifully rendered simulation…
Its called the Internal Model, and its vital to our ability to function.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=3MSw2irv0-A#t=1695
Apparently there is six times more data flowing against the direction of visual input from the eyes when the brain is seeing, so what we ‘see’ is mostly derived from an internal model of ‘reality’.
Truth 24 frames per second, but mostly when a 308º butterfly shutter is blacking out the light. And everything longer than about 3″ is a ‘story’…In effect, what Descartes should have said was: I have an internal dynamic model of my place in the world, therefore I am.
This whole new neuroscience-based way of thinking allows an understanding of the way in which VR can be effective, but I think its important to realise that the R in VR is misnamed… Maybe it should be VC, virtual cognition. 😉
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[Bill Davis] “…sometimes NO editing is necessary.”
Hmmm. Nice, but no cigar 😉
Quote end credit: “Animator : Seiya Ishii , Nobuyuki Hanabusa”
So a TON of particle generation and motion tracking…But, as you say, a great dance production 🙂
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“Apparently according to Hanabusa, he does it by projection onto a screen, perfecting alignment with the dancers through repeated practice.”
So the compositing is done before the dancing – 2 pass ‘editing/no editing’ 😉Lots of other stuff on his YT channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/papanda87