[Paul Mitchell]

hi Peter

how is more ram better, in what type of scenarios, only when working in 4K, how about just HD

when does the 4GB ram work better than the 2GB

thanks

[Paul Mitchell]

Hi Thibault

are you still successfully running 2 x GTx 690 inside the Cyclone alongside your 2010 12 core mac pro?

how long have you been running both cards?

I’m thinking of adding a second GTX 690 as well, I have almost identical set up as yours, but instead of the Cyclone I have a Cubix desktop 4

Thanks

[Paul Mitchell]

I hope you get the monitor properly alibrated

🙂

[Paul Mitchell]

Neither was my request for telepathic control over the trackballs and UI to avoid me from buying a control surface

Maybe next version

[Paul Mitchell]

Hi guys

now that we are on the VRam topic

I have a Cubix desktop 4 with 3 x GTX 285 with 1 G ram each, does that mean that they add up to 3 G, is the ram then tripled by having 3 cards?

if I was to replace them with 3 x GTX 580 3g each I would then have 9 G ram?

also if anyone know, what’s the minimum VRam needed for working just in HD?

note for David Pirinelli

by the way, 1 of the cards is an original mac version the other 2 are flashed and they all show up the same is system prefs inside the Cubix, all three at link speed of 5.0 GT/s and Link width x 16

maybe your mod 580’s will be also at 5.0 GT/s inside the Cubix

[Paul Mitchell]

Hi justin

thanks for the response

what’s the model of the card?

Is it a single width card too?

[Paul Mitchell]

thanks you guys for the suggestions

Jarek,thanks for pointing out the Energy Saver “put the hard disk to sleep” option

I had it enabled

thanks again

[Paul Mitchell]

Hi Neil

thanks for the information, I will get a PC to run Ultrascope alone

thanks again

[Paul Mitchell]

Thanks Matt for taking the time to share your thoughts, and everyone that’s contributed so far

You are correct with everything you’ve said, I’m still new and green to the world of networking so I don’t know much about the different types of connections, etc

I’m a colorist

At this point I’m trying to put together a small, low budget, 1 person system. To run avid mc6, final cut, adobe premier, but mainly to run davinci resolve, no other person involved, people come to me with their projects on drives and then I just copy to my internal raid and work from that.

I Already have a 2010 2.93ghz 12 core with internal 10 tb raid 0 , 24 gb ram

And it runs beautifully, I can see myself running like this for a while, the system does everything I throw at it.

To maximize resolve’s performance I’m getting blackmagic Ultrascope, to use instead of Davinci’s internal scopes.

To do this, Ultrascope needs to run on an external Pc or another Mac, being a Mac guy I thought I would stick the Ultrascope Pcle card inside a 2008 8 core Mac, then I thought I could populate that second Mac with another 10 tb raid 0, i thought i could turn the second mac as an external raid, getting 2 birds with 1 stone to run Ultrascope and gain a second raid in one box, instead of getting a separate external raid box and card I would simply end up with 2 Mac towers

That second Mac would only be used to run the Ultrascope program and run the 2nd 10 tb raid 0

My idea was to then access the media off the second Mac from my main Mac , mainly DPX sequences, large files

I was hoping that I would be able to see the media as a mounted drive from within any application in my main Mac ,so I could load a DPX sequence and play it real time. 5 x 2 tb drives in raid 0 are fantastic for achieving HD DPX playback realtime

At this point I don’t see myself needing more than 20 tb total of storage ( 2x 10 tb on 2 macs) once a job is done after some time goes by I just delete it if I need room, if for any reason a year later client wants something changed then they would bring their drives back

It’s a 1 person operation or mini facility, that’s why the 1 port only idea, only 2 macs needed

But it looks like I was way off in how it thought this process would work. In other words don’t think this would work

So I’m thinking of waiting for a possible new macro with thunderbolt and then just get a thunderbolt external raid

And I’ll run Ultrascope on a cheap Pc

We’ll see what develops in the next couple of months, I’m ok waiting

[Paul Mitchell]

Hi Paul

from their site

https://www.blackmagic-design.com/support/detail/supportnotes/?sid=3948&pid=4446&os=mac

still no PDF with menus and controls mappings for us to view from their support notes, I’m sure it’s on its way

would like to see how the panel is mapped across the 4 panels, how different is it to the wave?