Tom Sefton
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I’d never be too proud to investigate whether someone else’s ideas could speed up a workflow, especially if they have good experience. 9 times out of 10 we haven’t got to the best workflow through trial and error, or pressures of time, we have got there after good advice and then our own experience shaping it to the project.
Its usually a very refreshing thing to have someone evaluate what you are doing and why, and offer some advice on whether you could speed up. Even having it questioned can make you evaluate what you are doing, and if there is a faster or more efficient way of doing something.
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Red Rocket X with a red workflow would be the best option, other than that, nothing is officially supported as far as I know…
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I think some parts were shot on 65mm, but the majority on 35mm film.
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Yeah the g tech ones go much much faster but we have them set at raid 6 at the moment. When we had them at raid 0 it was way over 1000mb/s
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[Bob Zelin] “What DON’T I like about the 2013 6,1 Mac Pro ? The threat that in 2017, Thunderbolt 3 will be on these machines, making these expensive boxes (obsolete) (remember that all “old” Mac Pro’s are now obsolete).
“Why will they become obsolete Bob? I thought that thunderbolt 3 was going to be compatible with thunderbolt 2 peripherals – the only thing you couldn’t do is use a thunderbolt 3 peripheral with a thunderbolt 2 port….? I’ve possibly misunderstood this…
We’ve spent way more on thunderbolt peripherals than we have on 3 new Mac Pro’s, so having them useful for as long as possible is something we are very keen to do….
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[Herb Sevush] “I’m sure that’s true –
… If you don’t mind living in a morass of cables and external boxes
… If you don’t mind having a system with absolutely zero upgrade capability
… If you never have to edit with software other than FCPXFor everyone else it is not quite so impressive, which is why Steve is thinking about buying a 6 year old used MacPro off of eBay. The fact that he’s even considering this option speaks volumes”
True – it’s horses for courses I suppose.
However, we don’t just edit with FCPX and have great performance from all other media programs – adobe, resolve, fusion and redcine x.
The external cables and boxes – yeah that can be a drag, but it’s putting the upgrade outside of the form so to speak. For instance – you can add more GPU performance via a PCIE adaptor, and use this for networked RAID storage over 10Ge so each machine doesn’t need its own RAID attached. We’ve also upgraded RAM in one Mac Pro and found someone in the UK who offers hard drive upgrades to 2TB if required on the nMP. Someone even send a mailshot offering an upgrade on the CPU to a 10core processor. It’s not ideal, but I suppose it can be done. The major worry for me is that apple doesn’t seem to be focussed on its pro market regarding hardware. No updates to the nMP line in 2 years, no 5K monitor and a macbook released that has one connector and can’t use thunderbolt peripherals is not a good indicator.
We are lucky to have plenty of desk space so we can arrange things so that external RAIDs, sound cards, PCIE adaptors etc are hidden away.
I’d love to hear what performance can be achieved in a similar PC rig that has thunderbolt connectivity. If we dropped £6k on a Mac Pro – what could a PC achieve with the same budget?
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It’s an 8core 64GB RAM with D700s. Media is stored on a G-tech Studio XL via thunderbolt 2 that read/writes at more than 840MB/s.
The other 2 machines are 6 core machines with 32GB RAM and D700s and they are almost realtime (10mins of 4Kr3d takes around 11mins).
The best performance that we get for encoding r3d to pro-res comes in fcpx, followed by adobe media encoder. it seems that the best way to get maximum performance with the nMP is via lots of RAM, D700s and fast storage.
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I just haven’t seen anything but impressive performance from it. For instance – we shoot a lot of Red Epic Dragon footage. The nMP is encoding 4k r3d files to prores in realtime and editing in FCPX is smooth with raw files. It even works with 6K full frame files and encodes 10mins of 6K footage in less than 16mins.
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Not for us it isn’t. Fast and v. reliable. The GPU and RAM performance when dealing with 4K+ resolution is fantastic.
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