Rick Lang
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When I posted yesterday I was on the iPad which doesn’t know how to see a raw CinemaDNG image. When I saw it today, I realized you had a very tough green screen to pull off given the relatively slow speed of the sh
Utter. Did you use a 180 degree shutter on that 24 fps clip? Until BMD supports higher frame rates, might be good to use a 45 degree shutter and see if it plays back well enough for your purposes. If the green screen clips are short and sweet, the faster shutter angle may be acceptable. Good luck.Rick Lang
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Tom, I’m sure BMD is not ignoring high frame rates, it’s just not a feature of the current cinema cameras. HFR is one of the most requested features to add to their cameras as they concentrate their efforts on delivering a high quality image in raw, ProRes, and DNxHD solution for an economical price. I would expect higher rates perhaps topping off at 48 fps or hopefully 60 fps in the future but that doesn’t help Chaz today! They probably want to achieve this using the full active sensor area (2432×1366 on the BMCC and 3840×2160 on the BMPC4K) because they want you to have the ability to render or downscale your deliverables from the highest resolution available on a given camera. Contrast this with most digital film camera manufacturers that offer very high frame rates by increasingly cropping the sensor. Their approach just takes some more time and likely requires faster processors and better cooling and of course reliable faster recording media (SSDs). So hope you’ll see there is an upside to their approach and they are listening to requests.
Rick Lang
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Chaz, it might be worth jointing the official BMD forum and posting your note there. Lots of people with experience with raw in that forum and also the BMCuser.com forum. Hope that recommendation doesn’t break any Creative Cow rules but this sounds like an emergency. You could peruse both forums for general guidance but posting your specific problem seems better to get you quick results.
Rick Lang
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Yes, I believe that render farm was mentioned in the MARI presentation. And I recall reading that Apple no longer uses Apple servers in their data centres. I’m sure someone here knows what they are running.
Rick Lang
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Marcus, that’s true about the demands of 3D animation. Did you see (the video of) the presentation of MARI by The Foundry on the new Mac Pro at the WWDC? They were showing some quick painting of 3D objects for Monsters University. It’s a start. A long way to go to rendering complete animations and likely beyond Apple’s ambition to satisfy Pixar’s reach.
Rick Lang
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I hope I am not misquoting William Butler Yeats, as I think he said it all: “A man’s reach should exceed his grasp.” We are always looking beyond today to reach ever elusive goals. Tomorrow is one day closer to a target that never rests. And that is the way it should be.
Rick Lang
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Carry the new Mac Pro with your essential stuff plugged in? Could work–get the right Pelican case designed and you are good to go! A lot easier to handle than my PowerMac G5 that I had to lift today to get the carpets cleaned.
Rick Lang
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[michael stirling] “I’ve been holding out for this announcement before upgrading but now I feel a Hackintosh or a jump to Windows coming on.”
It was a preview, not a lot of real world performance indication other than the specs. But seeing how it runs, reviewing benchmarks when it is released, is necessary before making that move i should think. With Grant Petty, BMD, posting that the new Mac Pro is “screaming” based on their work with Resolve X and the new version of OpenCL. With the developer of the 3D painting program from The Foundry appearing to endorse it as the best platform performance he has seen for his program being ported back to the Mac, you have to conclude, it’s still worth waiting a few more months. I expect it to be released in October 2013.
Rick Lang
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May be expensive but may finally include 10bit per channel colour and be calibrated. My iMac monitor deserves to be retired.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Is the support within FCP X for three monitors new? Or just that the three monitors could be 4K monitors?
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB