Thanks Ben – I had a broadcast career once many years ago – then turned to art production and display and on one level for big projections in goes a computer and output at HD/4k pro res…. but often the site requires a card in a display with the same specs as streaming – or – as a for instance I had several exhibitions in cathedrals and price…

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First of all let me say thank you to everyone that’s replied to my post – as soon as I’d written it a family event happened that took me out of the picture which is why I haven’t responded. But: to be clear all the files are coming in from around the world and all are in their final state so determination of how they capture is not possible. These…

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I’m in the UK and early next year I’ll be in another country where I have to assemble a one hour loop for an output of 4k MP4 for a public display of art and the monitor is a QLED 4k LG. I know the answer is go 4k Pro Res HQ all the way, BUT: That means someone else’s partial internet and downloads of large files.

So my question is: has anyone…

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Thanks Devrim – I’ll think on this. Thanks for taking the time to answer

So from your reply you’re voiding the M2 macs as a choice – but of course waiting for next year for the M4 macs – given that our world is now turned upside down by Trumps potential tariff system – may just end my 40 year relationship with macs. I don’t say that lightly as I shot the making of 1984 – the commercial that launched the mac for Apple.…

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I apologise if you’ve seen this kind of question before (I searched to make sure – but): I extensively use my Intel 2019 Mac Tower with final cut pro on all sorts of editing and post tasks and I feel I now need to upgrade.

So my Intel Tower is 3.2Ghz 16-Core Intel Xeon W

Graphics are AMD Radeon Pro w5700x

Memory 160GB 2933 MHz DDR4

I’ve looked…

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Ah ok that’ll explain it because the mac 2019 architecture is governed at 6 gig (so the literature says), so a hackintosh may have different parameters. I have no experience with eiether windows or hacks – though of course given the prices that Tim Cook has brought in and the heinious system of tariffs on apple kit and software which walked away…

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Hi you’re getting 6700 with the M2? I’m getting 5800 which is naturally beneath the 6 gig ceiling. I’m struggling to see how you’re getting over the governed limit. Have you applied any fixes? Also as I don’t use PC so does their internal architecture allow a different higher speed? I’d assume there must be some benefits to having a PC besides…

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Well that sounds interesting – so far I can see no real drawbacks. I’ll let the comment stay up a bit longer before acting. Thanks for your reply.

Thanks – OK that’s good – any enhancements though – speed etc? I lose functionalities on older stuff so I need a good reason (other than they’ll get us in the end).

Anyone gone over to Big Sur yet? Any problems with moving image stuff?

So here’s sonnets response to my question about speeds – :

Hi Terry,

OWC connects 8 lanes to the PCIe slot (24-lane PCIe bridge chip). Sonnet connects 16 lanes to the PCIe slot (32 lane PCIe 3 bridge chip). If you are using a RAID 0 of 4 SSDs, The Sonnet is nominally twice as fast.

And by twice as fast I said I’d achieved 5700 with the OWC M2 – is it…

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So the new Sonnet M.2 4×4 PCIe Card – 4 NVMe SSDs promises concurrent data transfers/read and write speeds up to 12,000 MB/sec – I’m having a moment of blindness: If the architecture of a new mac supports 6000 MB/sec transfer speeds, how is what Sonnet claiming possible? They also claim speeds up to 6,000 MB/sec on 2012 macs with 3ghz…

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Hi, So I’ve been working my way through 4k and 8k and finally arrived at VR – there’s a connection in my head anyway. I understand I need acquire SteamVR and also I’m about to buy a headset and I see the HTC option but Oculus Quest 2 seems a good buy (I have a 16 core mac with 192 of ram and a set of fast 6000mbs ssd’s). Any extra recommendations?…

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Hi, I have no interest in further compressed codecs – other than what FCPX outputs to write on Vimeo which is if I have to share for a team (composer, collaborators etc). So I can use Resolve Studio if I have to come out of Pro Res. I wasn’t clear about the afterburner. Years back I bought a red rocket but shortly after they got overtaken by… Read more

Ok so this is to everyone who responded to my post about maxing out a 5.1 Tower and yes Bob Zelin I am now biting the bullet. So here’s the question – I am solely using FCPX an often run 4 – 10 layers 4k with many effects:
I can buy either a 16 core 2020 mac with some internal extras such as a vega card and/or an apple after burner
Or I can buy a… Read more

Patrick – that’s very kind of you to tolerate my questions. Your help produced a real world increase in my knowledge and material circumstance. It may well be that I go across to a new mac and all the rest – but technical knowledge is important to acquire and go though understanding. Thanks again to you and all who helped.
Made my first video in… Read more

So I ran with the 2012 5.1 tower I had rather than buying the new mac and I’m still wondering whether to cross over. The money is not an issue now (regardless of the pound dollar relationship which has us Brits paying through the nose) – the issue is whether or not it really does that much more – read below what a maxed out 5.1 does and tell me… Read more