Robbie Carman
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[Darin Wooldridge] “Great news Robbie. What model cubic did you go with? I’ve been begging for more gpu power. the rack mount gpu monster looks like fun. How many fps or you getting with 4k dpx frames”
Darin – sorry I didn’t respond to this sooner. Been traveling for the holidays in the snowapocolypse here on the east coast of the U.S. The cubix I got is this one:
GPU-Xpander Desktop 2 with 4 Slot 16x Upgrade and 16x Adapter and Data Cable
But I suppose you could probably just stay with the 2 Slot Double Wide if you didn’t want to put in additional cards
I too am curious about the big rackmount version but for now the unit I got with the two GTX 285s is pretty rad. My main use of the the cubix is for better stereo work as we’re getting more 3D gigs every day. At regular 2D 1080 work the system seems like I can through pretty much anything at it without ever having a problem consistently hitting 24 or 29.97 and staying there. The 3D work I’ve been testing on the two card system has been similar. It seems as though the system is intelligent enough to split the workload of the two streams evenly between each card which essentially makes it the same as each GTX working with a single 1080 stream which as you know works great.
As far as the 4k work, I thought I was going to have the time to use Rohit’s tips on getting the Rocket in the cubix before christmas but I didn’t so I will have to do that when I return to the studio latter this week. I’ll report back on FPS and general performance. Unfortunately I haven’t come across any 4k or even 2k 3D gigs to test 3D hi-rez using the cubix system. If you have some 2k or 4k 3D RED footage I could put it to the test.
Robbie Carman
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Darin I’ve been rocking the dual 285 set up in the cubix it’s unbelievable! Glad I took the risk and got the cubix with the hope this was going to happen. Rohit says it’s possible to get a rocket in there too so I’m going to try to squeeze the one have on extended loan in there tomorrow
Robbie Carman
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yep I”ve used it a few times and works great. Also check out Prompster which is pretty good too
Robbie Carman
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hmmm I couldn’t seem to get that to fit. Will open it back in the morning. I have a Rocket but pulled it per the config guide. Also per the config guide it says “blocked” for two GTX285s in the box. Did you mean the Desktop 4?
Robbie Carman
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[Kevin Cannon] “\’m thinking two 285s in the cubix for DPX and stereo DPX, and swap one 285 for a Red Rocket when necessary…”
This is what I’m doing right now as well. I bought the cubix hoping this would sort itself out and I had to spend some money for taxes at the end of the year – needless to say I’m stoked with the multiple GPU support. The two 285’s in the Cubix are pretty crazy. I setup this config for stereo workflow but on HD programing (like I was grading today) its just un-real how quick it is. I just kept adding node after node and it playback didn’t move a bit.
Now that I’ve tasted the secret sauce I wonder about the larger cubix expansion boxes. LIke the 16 slot rackmount. Sure I could buy the linux version but would also have to buy all the hardware. So assuming I could buy 8 285s I could have a 8 GPU system on the mac!
Robbie Carman
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ditto. I also have an extra 285 (got it when everyone was searching) that I plan to plug into my cubix over the weekend. Hoping it works!
Robbie Carman
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sean I responded to you over in the color forum but here is the same response. I’ll also add for 2D work as a client display its awesome!
first do the burn in procedure.
https://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showpost.php?p=18252415&postcount=1
Next you can follow D-Nice’s (a trusted calibrator) settings to get in the ballpark but its just that a ball park. After getting mine calibrated it was quite different from his settings as each set is different
https://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=18252431#post18252431
Its a great client monitor once calibrated for sure. For serious 3D work I”m starting to do though I moved to a JVC passive display the active shutter was driving me crazy
Robbie Carman
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do you have the seq open before running plural eyes? I seem to remember having this issue when the sequence wasn’t actually opened before running plural eyes
Robbie Carman
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You need to name the seq pluraleyes that your trying to sync, assuming you’re in fcp
Robbie Carman
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I just wrapped up grading a feature shot entirely on 7Ds last week and agree with this. Just a touch will do it because nothing is uglier in my opinion then a overly sharpened video. Another thing that I would add is doing a touch of denoising always helps too.
Robbie Carman
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