Tom Sefton
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Ok cool – thanks for quick reply.
Suppose it’s an adjustment of the way you think of the properties of the clip because if you set an ultra widescreen project and then import a 6K clip that should be enormous, it scales to it leaving the view letterboxed. You then need to scale the clip up to fill the project window, instead of scaling each one down.
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Is someone with an uber fast PC and an external RAID willing to do some tests to see what this 1000 day old Mac Pro is up against in the current market of video editing, colouring and exporting?
I’m genuinely not poking the PC vs Mac bear, I’m just trying to see if the cow could provide a really useful resource for anyone wanting to understand what’s out there…
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Turn off your mind, relax, and float upstream.
It’s easy if you try!
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I very, very much doubt it’s going to get discontinued any time soon. Besides that, it’s easy to learn!
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Ok, so as long as apple doesn’t mess around with the USB-c connector in the pro range, all our peripherals will be ok!
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Because it works incredibly well, and is very stable with raw footage – in particular R3D. The playback quality, editing performance and export speed with 6K, 5K and 4K raw media is better than Avid, Resolve and Premiere in our experience.
It also lets you collaborate with plugin developers so that you can build workflows that are not possible when using Avid, Premiere and Resolve.
You can also utilise incredibly cheap and effective shared storage from people like Lumaforge so that multiple people can collaborate on a large project, for much less investment than that of an equivalent edit system.
It does need some tweaks for exporting custom bitrate files and for how it handles embedded audio, but overall its fantastic.
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Aww man, I would really love to, but a heavily pregnant wife and a busy schedule for Monday morning means that I need to fly back on Saturday night. I will do the next, or perhaps try and get to NAB/similar next year.
Perhaps see you at some point if you are there on Saturday.
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Look up YoYotta for the LTO tape option. It’s a few hundred dollars but once you’ve spent a couple of hours getting used to it its very easy and efficient.
We are midway through backing up 170TB with it at the moment – it took maybe half a day of setup and learning time before we started backing up using a thunderbolt LTO tape deck. If your client is willing to spring for it, there are LTO decks that accept multiple tapes so a large spanned archive (more than 2.3TB raw or 6TB compressed) can be automated accross 3-4 tapes without you having to touch it in the 96hrs or so it takes to copy and check all data. The main issue with anything other than a raid is that you will need to charge your client to go back and check the data is still consistent after a couple of years (LTO tape can perish…) and this is time consuming over a multiple spanned archive. If you have one raid set to raid 10 giving maximum security, you could plug it in once a year, run a checksum overnight and that’s it.
For cloud storage, I’m sure I saw Amazon were doing a nifty service in mainland USA for access to their glacier storage with a gigE raid that is posted to you and posted back to them once full (each one is over 24TB in capacity) for them to upload to glacier storage using their 10gE links.. The costs are then relatively low each month (a few cents per GB) meaning your client pays Amazon for an assured storage service but then have to pay a one off fee everytime you need to download the data. The only issue with this is that you don’t have access to the rushes immediately, other than knowing what is stored where.
If you want to know more about the LTO Backups, drop me a line.
It all depends on how much your client is willing to pay for this service….
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Could you figure out a fee for transferring each hard drive via Shotput Pro or similar to a RAID or LTO6 tape solution? This way, you get to keep the footage on a manageable system, and get paid for doing it.
We’ve got an LTO6 backup solution – works well after some initial teething problems. You can automate a transfer and leave it doing it overnight, with an MD5 and a pdf sent to you when completed. You can even bring multiple external drives into a project and copy them to one LTO tape. This way, you could then make duplicate copies of each drive, keep one yourself and send one back to your client (so it isn’t your responsibility if someone spills coffee on it).
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https://macperformanceguide.com/iMac5K_2014-video-transcode4K.html
https://barefeats.com/imac5k4.html
https://larryjordan.com/articles/mac-pro-video-compression/
https://videoandfilmmaker.com/wp/index.php/news/imac-vs-macpro-great-debate/
Some interesting, some inconclusive. On the whole it seems to go with the consensus that if you ever work in 4K raw, go pro. If you only ever work in ProRes and stay in short form with limited colour correction and encoding, go for the iMac…
If you go for the Mac Pro, get the d700s, and as much ram as you can afford – aftermarket is fine as long as it’s fast enough. The processors speed performance up but until you compare the 6 to the 12 there isn’t enough difference. Sweet spot is an 8core with everything maxed.
The other thing to note is that if you do invest in a red rocket, it’s pointless if the red camera has been upgraded to dragon sensor. Even if it shoots at 4K on the dragon, the difference in debayer means the original rocket is redundant. Would love for someone to fund a test with the new Titan in an external enclosure with some 6k footage….
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