Rich Rubasch
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We have gone with the Nvidia GTX 680 cards in all our towers and it really pumps thru everything we can throw at it. We had the 4000 card in our graphics mac but the GTX 680 is much faster.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
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Found it. And by the way if you are using camera raw footage in a project when it bundles it all up it includes file path and all associated metadata for each clip on the export. It is a sweet little utility!
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
I would shoot 25 and then conform to 23.98 and convert that to 29.97 with pulldown. I believe the teranex can also do a good job converting 25 to 29.97, but much easier to shoot 25 and then get to 29.97 than start at 29.97 and try to create a 25fps master out of that.
IMO
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
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If you haven’t yet, try DiskWarrior which usually fixes drive issues that Disk Utility cannot. A must have!
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
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Even better get a PCI SSD for the boot up drive. Our MacPros boot in about 14 seconds. This also frees up the fourth drive bay so we installed SoftRAID with four Seagate Constellation drives and get 500+MB/sec read speeds off that RAID. Lots of RAM and a Nvidia graphics card and we have some awesome 7 year old workstations!
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
If we know we are shooting in a room with outside windows we always have a roll of ND filter paper to completely cover the windows. This minimizes the effect of the light “breathing” but it still does just not as noticeable. You could garbage matte around the subject with a soft edge and keyframe the mids and highs to follow the light changes much like tracking an object.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
Got it. Good price too! But on 5 systems I am disgarding all my current PCI cards, all my monitors (2 per system) and the other PCI cards (USB3 and PCI SSD) in order to go iMac. Easy decision for the one system shop, but exponential in a 5-6 system shop.
Thanks John….good stuff.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
So how do you critically monitor the output of Premier or Final Cut to a broadcast monitor? Via Apple TV? My coworker said he tried it but it had lag and would not recommend it in a professional environment. Do you not use any video I/O card in your environment and have you completely eliminated the PCI entirely?
I really like editing on local drives on each workstation…it is very efficient and with the aggregated network very fast. Just not sure how to do that with an iMac.
Anyone else out there with trash cans and older towers?
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
Thanks John, So you aren’t even using a video card like an AJA Kona etc? You just send the output of the Mac to the monitor via screen sharing to the Apple TV? Does that become a third monitor? We each have two 16:9 computer monitors at each desk and the Plasma is for critical viewing only, not the computer interface.
Not sure I am on board with going iMac….I almost feel I can get by with used 2012 towers souped up for now until the trash can (or even a PC solution) becomes the next jump. We have four striped drives inside each Mac tower and getting 560MB/sec (that’s megabytes not megabits!) which rock. And with the PCI SSD startup discs we all start up in about 15 seconds! Apps load in seconds. It’s pretty sweet actually.
One more note I did not mention….we have an HP switch that allows port aggregation so we are using both gigabit ports on each Mac Pro aggregated together and have more than doubled two-way traffic speeds on the network….it’s not 10 gig E but it is better than single port gigabit by a long shot. Cost about $300 to set it up too!
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
Whew….thanks Bob for bringing some sense to this post. Really? 93 gigs? No way. Onto a 128 gig USB stick and into the Fed Ex it goes!
Every time.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com