Shawn Miller
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[Jeremy Garchow] “[Shawn Miller] “The Bassomatic 5000″
I can’t believe it has taken this long to find the most appropriate rename for this place!”
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[Eric Santiago] “[Shawn Miller] “So… is that render speed (which renderer)… view port performance… loading and manipulating large amounts of polygons… using large textures… using a lot of lights… what’s faster on which machine? ☺
”Yikes, I’m notorious for replying without reading first 😛
The HP has a K5000 in it and yes it’s much faster in viewport which is where I live most.
As far as Arnold rendering, I will use any platform to get things done.
But I’m pretty sure it’s much faster on the HP than the D700.”Ah, thank you I was wondering! ☺ It sounds like you’re using Arnold in GPU mode, I didn’t know it supported AMD cards now, that’s good news!
Shawn
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[Eric Santiago] “I can only say that in Maya as far as blazing speed.”
So… is that render speed (which renderer)… view port performance… loading and manipulating large amounts of polygons… using large textures… using a lot of lights… what’s faster on which machine? ☺
Shawn
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I’m a staff video producer here in Seattle, WA. My company is a medium-sized B2B technology consulting firm with offices all over the globe. My workdays can vary wildly from week to week. Sometimes, I edit footage from international vendors, and sometimes I shoot materials for agencies that are working with other groups in the company. However, for most of my projects, I handle everything from shoot to finish (motion graphics, audio sweetening, color grading, etc.). I also edit a lot of self-shot videos from co-workers and executive types.
Before corvid-19 hit the Seattle area, I was supposed to cover events for International Women’s Day, shoot some interviews in a couple of high schools and conduct some interviews for our companies 20th-anniversary celebration. All of those activities are now off the table. Following in the footsteps of every other tech company, we are now on voluntary quarantine, and all workers are encouraged to work remotely and practice social distancing.
In the past week and a half, I’ve had a few interviews in the office, so working from home wasn’t an option. While coming in for these shoots, I noticed that there weren’t many people in the building, so I just kept coming in (to edit). There have been a few days where I haven’t seen another soul on my floor, so I’ve felt pretty safe working here. I still practice good hygiene habits (washing hands thoroughly and frequently, wiping down work surfaces, not touching my face, etc.), and I’ve been backing my work up on a portable hard drive every night, in case the city goes on lock-down.
I have a powerful workstation at home, so it wouldn’t be hard to do the same work there as I do in the office, but my ISP is Comcast, so I would miss the stable and reliable high-speed internet connection that I enjoy at work.
[EDIT] I meant to sum this up by answering one of the questions in the headline… how is business? It doesn’t seem to be slowing down yet. As people in other parts of the company look for ways to engage with the rest of the business, and share information in more intimate and immediate ways than newsletters and mass emails, I imagine they’ll turn to producing more self shot videos and podcasts. I think there’s going to be a lot to do in the months ahead.
Shawn
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[Tero Ahlfors] “I’ve done some light to heavy AE comps, editing, grading and mastering and it’s been really good. I would not use this for some super high res stuff because of the GPU RAM. The second screen is really useful and as a bunch of reviewers have said that this should be the default going forward. One could even slap the track mixer panel on there and use the touchscreen to move the faders around.”
This is great to know, thank you!
Shawn
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[Tero Ahlfors] ”
I just got it today so I haven’t really tested it yet. I have the beefier model with the 8-core i9-9980HK and for graphics it has the RTX 2060 6GB and apparently it doesn’t throttle that much. Mainly because of the Asus Zephyrus type cooling where the hinge lifts the bottom of the laptop up a bit so it can breathe.”Nice – I hope you report back with your experiences after you’ve had it for a while!
Shawn
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[Tero Ahlfors] “I just got one of these for work. The extra half screen is really cool and you can fit all kinds of extra panels/palettes on it.”
How is the performance? One of the things that I dislike about working on laptops is the lack of screen space. Having a dedicated space for pallets and whatnot could make mobile editing, compositing, etc. a lot more attractive for people like me.
Shawn
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[Tim Wilson] ”
I said to my wife across the room (yes, both working at home), “Hey, this guy at the COW says that instead of the Star Trek thing, he does the Bene Gesserit fear litany,” and she laughed and STARTED RECITING IT. LOL And now you know one of the keys to us keeping our marriage spicy. LOL
(And in fact, I’d never Dune before I read her hardcover first edition in 1983. Also, check this recent update on Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Dune and companion TV series coming later this year at IndieWire.)
She asked me to tell you that she loves you too. LOL”
LOL – Tim, this makes my whole month, thank you both!! And thanks for the link as well, I’m as pregnant as an axlotl tank with anticipation (for the new adaptation and the series)! ☺
Shawn
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[Tim Wilson] “(Rather than singing the Alphabet song twice, my favorite way to count to 20 is to recite: “Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before.” You gotta put the pause after the word “space”, and I’m sure you nerds know exactly how long to pause. Plus however much time you want to add to sing the theme at the end.)”
I use the Bene Gesserite litany against fear, it feels appropriate to the times. ☺
“I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.”[Tim Wilson] “So let’s just nod calmly, admit that this year is a little different, so we’ll take little steps. Use the normal amount of toilet paper at home for a couple of extra days this year, and maybe not get super-frothy because we don’t get to climb in a germ tube of a plane to fly into a germ-bath of a convention center with thousands of people you don’t even like to be around the few dozen people you do, ???? and let’s do it next year instead.”
Amen! ☺
Shawn