[Tim Jones]

You might be able to bus-power a single, low power drive via TB, but 2 drives will exceed the specs from what I know. TB is really not designed with that type of operation in mind.

Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!

[Tim Jones]

Excellent tip – is anyone cataloging things like this?

Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!

[Tim Jones]

Hi Tero,

Sorry that I missed your port – I was already aware of the edits for AE and PP.

Thanks for the reminder, though.

Tim
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Tim Jones
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https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!

[Tim Jones]

I’ve finally made some headway here with preview and render performance under AE CS6. It’s all about the preferences 🙂 .

On the Viewer, select the “Fast Previews” dropdown button and then select Fast Draft.

In Preferences, Display, enable Hardware Accelerate Composition, Layer, and Footage Panels.

Double check render and cache locations, insure they point to the multi-spindle array.

Bingo, previews in realtime. Customer is impressed, job is locked!

Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!

[Tim Jones]

Cool discovery, thanks for sharing. Makes it even more obvious that the teams are different on the 2 projects at Apple :).

Tim
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Tim Jones
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https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!

[Tim Jones]

Not John, but I love the C5’s. The tonal balance is very good (comparing to my Alesis MkII’s). The sub brings out the low end without turning my desk into a bouncing platform and the tightness of the speakers makes everything crystal clear – even at high volume levels.

If you’re an Amazon fan, check them out in your environment directly. If they don’t work for you, you can send ’em back.

Bose Companion 5 at Amazon

Tim
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Tim Jones
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https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!

[Tim Jones]

You’re not alone (even though I’m not using an iMac) – I also dropped my Alesis MkIi’s and my Behringer Xenyx and now use the built in mixer and a Bose Companion 5 setup. My main boxes are a Mac Pro 4,1 (FCP X, Motion 5, Sound Forge) and a custom Windows 7 PC (CS6, Vegas Pro, Acid Pro). Much less clutter which makes my sessions seem “lighter”. My monitors aren’t as crowded and I have a place on the desk for my sandwich and chips :). The headphone jack in the C5 volume control is very well placed for those fine ambient edits.

Tim
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Tim Jones
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https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!

[Tim Jones]

Installed onto a secondary drive, Cuda’s broken, iTunes complains about iDevices connected. Went back to 10.8.2 without digging further…

Tim
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Tim Jones
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https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!

[Tim Jones]

Sorry, the AJA test won’t let me test on a mount point vs. drive letter volume; neither will winstat. In trying to test this further, I had grabbed one of our 6-drive SSD modules and striped that as my F: drive. That’s what that original test was of. I reset my spinning array to a drive letter and got 432MB/sec write and 488MB/sec read as you expected, but that volume is just for storage, not for rendering or cache.

The system is brand new, so it’s a fresh Windows 7 install with SP 1 and all current updates. As I mentioned, I’m a Creative Cloud member and the Adobe suite is fully up to date. The drives are brand new and not fragmented. I’ve also made sure that I’ve updated the installed Quicktime version to Apple’s latest

Playback in PP stutters when playing back a 1080P Photo-JPEG movie (2K original media) – even at 1/2 resolution in the playback display. I can play the same sequence back with no glitching on the rMBP at Full resolution in the playback display.

Very strange.

Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
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[Tim Jones]

AJA System test reports 1664MB/sec write, 1821MB/sec read on my array drive, 452MB/sec write, 496MB/sec read on my SSD render drive.

As for the 650 and Cuda support, I’d already edited the files and (as I said), both AE and PP see and use the GPU/Cuda:

Fast Draft: Available
Texture Memory: 797.00 MB
Ray-tracing: GPU

OpenGL
Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Device: GeForce GTX 650/PCIe/SSE2
Version: 3.0.0
Total Memory: 1.95 GB
Shader Model: 4.0 or later
CUDA
Driver Version: 5.0
Devices: 1 (GeForce GTX 650)
Current Usable Memory: 1.78 GB (at application launch)
Maximum Usable Memory: 2.00 GB

Tim
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Tim Jones
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https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!