Robbie Coblentz
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Did the same as Tim- sans the Thunderbolt Atto 680. Great performance after hacking the PP CUDA TXT doc. Did go with the non Retina 15″ due to expandability issues. Can add more RAM, new hard drive to non Retina MBP than the Retina version.
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We have a Bob-installed Final Share system that we took to direct connect 10GIG. Dropped in an ATTO NS14 to the main server and ATTO NS11 cards to each client. Have 10GIG fibre with SFPs between each client and the server. Works very, very well. Great reads and writes. Have 3 edit suites hooked up via 10GIG direct and the fourth port feeding the uplink to the switch so everyone else can access via Gig ethernet.
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10 Gig or 1 Gig is great for smaller/mid size shops on FCP 7 or Premiere CS6. You can get Avid MC rolling, but it requires some workflow adjustments.
10Gig screams. Avid moved their ISIS systems to ethernet based protocols recently. I wouldn’t spend ugh on Fibre these days.
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More RAM would be great. But you did the best thing in the word by going to the GTX570. Amazing the difference that card makes on a Mac with CUDA support enabled. The newer architecture on the 6-core would provide a boost, but you may not get the best band for your buck.
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Thanks Matt.
I’ll just share what we have installed. Four edit suites being served off a MacPro with 40 TB RAID 5 storage via ATTO NS14 card, which hooks into a layer 3 Erricsson Gig switch via a 10 Gig port with SFP connectors on the back. The RAIDs are connected via an ATTO R680 card thru SAS. The server is getting great read/writes to the RAIDs- 650-700 megabits per sec. Edit A, which is connected via 10 gig e is getting a 300 megabit read/write according to AJA System test. The other 3 suites are hooked up via gig e thru copper into the second ethernet port on the MacPros. They are in the 95-105 Megabit range on reads/writes.
We are working in a FCP/PP CS6 environment with 4 editors accessing the same footage. We are doing 1920 x1080 ProRes and ProRes LT with no issues. Been rock solid since we bought from MaxxDigital back in November.
Your mileage may vary. Buy from an integrator like Maxx or Small Tree which have the ins/outs figured out.
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Bob gets a little excitable sometimes, but he knows his stuff.
A gig Ethernet system would get you around 100 megabit read and writes on shared storage. The key is to have fast SAS raids hooked up to a Mac as a server, drop in a 10 gig card to direct connect to a layer 3 switch, then have a single gig e port from each MacPro drop into the switch. Fairly simple and both Small tree and MaxxDigital roll their own packages that work. Buying from MaxxDigital you get to speak to the Z man directly and do benefit from his vast knowledge of gig e stuff.
You could drop in an Atto NS14 card in the MacPro, avoid the layer 3 switch totally and do 10 gig Ethernet via sfp connectors to the MacPros. You’re getting closer to 340-50 megabits per second then. Pretty sweet.
Call Maxx and get a quote. They compare favorably to Small Tree. Small Tree rocks too. Wouldn’t hesitate to buy fom either.
Facilis is great stuff in a little different box. Can’t go wrong there either.
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Buffer setting can sometimes affect the efficiency or writing to tape. I’v head some archives that i thought would fit easily on a LTO 3, but need an additional tape because the way BRU slices the data up and feeds to the LTO. At least that’s how it was roughly explained to me.
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I would also look at buying ShotPut Pro from Imagine Systems to do your P2 to HD transfers. Great product for do a file verify and making a clone of the card to a second hard drive automatically.
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I would get a HPX 250- which would allow to do the run and gun corporate work- and a AF100 with Nikon lens- which would allow you to do some nice interview/doc work with shallow depth of field. You can match the color pretty darn close out of the camera since they have that Panasonic “look.” Need to budget a little bit of cash for some P2 cards for 250 and SD cards for the 100.
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Or you could injest via FCP, export a Quicktime movie and then do the upscale via Compressor. Far superior scaling engine that FCP 7’s scale function.