Roy Pearson
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Bob,
I’m pretty sure the new Mac Mini 2018 has two TB3 busses (four ports total). Maybe you’re thinking of the old 2012 model and that’s why you say it’s not a great server?
Roy
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Haha thanks Bob, I was afraid that might be the answer.
I haven’t totally given up hope though, as Apple did fix some of the SMB bugs they created with earlier versions of 10.13 (copy/move operations crashing Finder was pretty bad). Network performance generally feels smoother on 10.13.6 too, although maybe that’s just because it was so bad before.
Anyway yes I’ll report to Apple and we’ll see what happens with Mojave.
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Ah you’re right I was only looking at the current Skylake lineup, my bad. Looks like Skylake-X will have the 10-core option too… I’m just getting caught up on the confusing Intel product names hah.
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Well there aren’t any 10-core i7 chips so no choice there, even the Xeon E3s are 4-core only. That’s why Apple needs a Mac Pro in their lineup.
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The rumor suggests the iMac Pro will use a Xeon E3-1285 v6, which would include Quick Sync for encoding/decoding H.264 etc. so no issues there. Actually it could be ideal for video editing.
If you need more than 4 cores you’ll step up to the Xeon E5 family which has up to 22 cores, although no Quick Sync because those chips don’t include integrated graphics. However this can be handled by other GPUs (for example Nvidia NVENC), so in theory the next Mac Pro could still be great for encoding too. Then on the software side Apple could integrate the GPU encoding into FCPX and Compressor.
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Bob, what do you think about using a new 15″ Macbook Pro as a server? I’d like to take advantage of these new Tbolt3 storage products and it seems a shame to buy a 2013 Mac Pro at this point. Maybe if they finally release an updated Mac Pro I can swap that in next year, hmmm…
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3D Text was publicly announced before NAB 2015? I didn’t hear about it until that Monday last year.
https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/04/13Apple-Updates-Final-Cut-Pro-X-Motion-and-Compressor.html -
Yeah it did seem fast on the test file I tried, so not a dealbreaker.
I’m just curious if there’s a workaround to make it work natively, or if that would require changes on Apple’s end.
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Good stuff here, glad they added batch relink.
John, do you know if there’s a way for KFP to work natively with MXF files (say from Sony FS7)? Seems like it works when you encode previews, but I’d like to avoid the encoding time.
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Actually you may not need the QT reference files. I’ve successfully imported/edited SStP MXF files (from Sony F5) into FCPX by simply dragging them into the browser. All this without the Calibrated MXF plugin, mind you, just need to install the Sony SR software (which you’ve already done). Seems surprising but it worked for me, let me know how it goes for you.