Shawn Miller
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[Steve Connor] “Thing I’m most interested in is the Graphics cards :)”
What are you hoping for? More options (AMD or Nvidia) or more power (assuming you won’t get both)?
Shawn
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[Noah Kadner] “For me it’s the OS that matters. Or perhaps Seth hasn’t had a chance to try what passes for the OS freebies that come on the Windows platform lately. Not even close…
Noah”
Not following what you mean, Noah. Which OS freebies are you referring to and why are they important in choosing which OS to use?
Shawn
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[Michael Gissing] “[Shawn Miller]”I believe that update just takes the 4.0 firmware from beta to release.”
Typically Blackmagic there are quite a few extra goodies. I have the latest beta but it doesn’t include half of the 4.0 release. Changes to compressed raw aspect options, improved focus assist in the viewfinder, more guides options including 14:9.”
I’ll have to go through it then. I installed the update earlier, but I haven’t had a chance to look through the new options. It’s a bit confusing because some features listed as new in the documentation were there in version 4.0b. I’m sure there are some great new features… now, if they could just get on DNxHR recording. ?
Shawn
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[Michael Gissing] “I’m starting to sweat. Its now over a month since the last major Resolve update. But they have just released a huge upgrade to the Ursa Mini.”
I believe that update just takes the 4.0 firmware from beta to release. I wouldn’t be too surprised to see a Resolve update soon.
Shawn
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[Matthew Ross] “[Michael Hancock] “This forum is my guilty pleasure, in a way. ”
Mine too. FCP X isn’t even an option for me because we’re PC-based, but I like to read this forum because:
I like to keep up on what’s going on in the world of editing. It’s damn entertaining sometimes!”Same here, I come for the smart commentary on workflows, tools and state of the art stuff… but the food fights are kind of fun too, when they’re not personal and mean spirited. ?
Shawn
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[Jeremy Garchow] “[Shawn Miller] “Sure, but didn’t the PC have two much slower processors, less than half the RAM and an ancient video card?”
[Jeremy Garchow] “This is the age ole question. I know I have asked it, I know others have. What constitutes fast?”
Fast equals acceptable image quality, divided by the time left to deliver the project – the less time left to deliver, the higher the tolerance for lower quality. ?
Seriously though, it IS a good question. For me, 30 seconds per frame seems really fast some days, on other days it seem like an eternity… one thing if for sure though, it’s NEVER fast enough.
[Jeremy Garchow] “The PC was stated to be “4 years old”. The MacPros, have “old technology in them” (3+ years old), yet the Mac still outperforms on less processors of a similar vintage. As far as I know, Ae does not render on the GPU for most of the work, so we can probably not focus on that aspect. We can see that the PCIe SSD seems to speed up the Ae renders.
And I’ll say it again, Ae is reaaallllyy slow at 4k. Is this a problem with the hardware? I don’t really think so. I think it has to do with how Ae is built and what it’s built for.
And they might as well hang the “Page under construction, check back soon!” sign on Ae until they are done fixing whatever it is they are fixing. I think they are trying to fix speed by separating the UI from the render function, but I don’t really know anymore, don’t really care, but I wish it was fixed.”
AE’s render isn’t exactly a mulit-threaded champ, so I can see how a faster, single processor machine can outperform a slower dual processor machine on the same project – I think the PC would have been faster than the nMP if it had been equipped with the same processors. But I agree with you on everything else – AE’s renderer is ancient, I know they’re working on it, but it can’t come soon enough.
Shawn
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[Jeremy Garchow] “A single 6core MacPro was 10-27% faster than a similar vintage CPU dual Xeon.
That’s not nothing.”
Sure, but didn’t the PC have two much slower processors, less than half the RAM and an ancient video card?
Shawn
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[Kevin Johnson] ”
Dual Xeon 2.67- Windows 7.
Macpro was 3.5ghz 6 core, d500’s, 64 GB ramI was rendering 20 frames per minute on the PC, 22fpm on the Macpro (10% faster).
The macpro SSDs were much faster, when rendering internally instead of ISIS, it was 22fpm (pc) to 28fpm (Mac, +27%)”Yeah… time for an upgrade. How long are you willing to wait for the next nMP before considering another PC?
Shawn
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[Kevin Johnson] “or what it’s worth, I have a 4 year old HP Z800 with 24GB of RAM, and a crappy nvidia 3800 with 1GB of video RAM. I was hoping my coworkers year old macpro would help with some after effects rendering. 4K comp all greenscreen footage from the Sony F55-hundreds of layers. I was expected the macpro would crush my old PC. They rendered almost exactly the same speed. Really bummed me out.”
Wow, which processor(s) is in your z800… is it a dual or single processor machine?
Shawn
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[Tim Wilson] ”
[Bill Davis] “it appears that none of them seem to be “waterproof” in a common colloquial sense.”
LOL – I’ve been resisting the urge to post the Lil’ Wayne videos all weekend!
[Tim Wilson] “Quite so!!! NONE of them (Sammy included) use the word waterproof AT ALL. Also, none of them mention 30 minutes. It’s all about dunking or spills, and in the scheme of things, that’s all I need. Save me from dropping it in the toilet, man.”
Kim Komando submerged an s7 for 2.5 hours to see what would happen about 6 months ago. There are a ton of videos like this on YouTube, some of them even dunking an iPhone 6 to see how it compared… pretty interesting stuff.
Shawn
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