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Tom.Wong

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I'm not a mac vs pc guy, i use it all. opening up to a PC let's you build a power house resolve setup for much cheaper, and let's you use much more cost effective and powerful gpu's like gtx 580. I've already priced it out and built a sick ass setup on newegg at the price it would cost to buy a 12 core mac tower, at several times the performance. I'm gonna be building a PC resolve, just dedicated to resolve 100%, and use my macs for everything else, and on set work. I hope the PC version can write pro res. If not, I still have mac towers to do that for me. Just write dpx or uncompressed with resolve PC and convert on mac. or if it's possible, just transfer the project onto my mac after all the grading is done and write on my mac if I need pro res. either way, it's all worth the performance for while your grading at such a lower cost.


MC round tripping is gonna be the shizzle.
 
So I'm guessing between this news and the news that Adobe acquired Iridas Speed Grade that integration with Premiere isn't really a priority for either company right now... The fact that they are increasing support for FCP 7 though leads me to believe that the ball is more in Adobe's court to implement XML 5 support? All that's left now is for Avid to get better R3D support and Premiere will be dead in the water as far as I'm concerned.
 
Tom.Wong said:
just transfer the project onto my mac after all the grading is done and write on my mac if I need pro res.
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Can't imagine why it shouldn't work.
For me, the best part, is that there is no need for Hackintosh anymore. You can build a sick Resolve grading station without resorting to use of the Mac expansion chassys and inferior GPUs. 16 GPUs, that's Linux domain for a price of Mac!
My partner is counting days, until he's able to do Avid roundtrip...
 
Unless Apple gets it together with GPU drivers, I'll soon be using Macs for nothing more than surfing the web, writing emails, making the occasional FCP7 XML, and as a fancy ProRes / background transcode dongle.
 
thinking about it a bit more and I changed my mind...
Not sure that switching to PC is a real deal...
Hackintosh is still the best way to combine best software with almost-new hardware...
Yeah, you have to wait a bit more for drivers, but remember that you're on a pseudo-mac that it's cheap as a pc and works quite as a mac ;)
 
I've tried Adobe Creative Suite 5.5... photoshop, premiere pro and after effects in bootcamp on Windows 7.... much faster. I have no issues whatsoever in using Windows 7. I think Mac OSX is the more gimmicky software. Heck same with FCPX.
 
I wonder if they are making the Linux version free with panel purchase because the cards are getting so powerful now that using expansion chassis has become almost as powerful as the Linux expansion option.
 
Andrae Palmer said:
I've tried Adobe Creative Suite 5.5... photoshop, premiere pro and after effects in bootcamp on Windows 7.... much faster. I have no issues whatsoever in using Windows 7. I think Mac OSX is the more gimmicky software. Heck same with FCPX.
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absolutely true, Photoshop and after effects are leader on what they do... but I can't say the same thing on premiere...
 
As of now it's cheaper for me to stay on Mac and just go gpu expansion route and get flashed gtx 470's, but in the future any resolve system I'm building from scratch is gonna be ALL pc. it's just way too cost effective not to. The best part is just the options. It's gonna be a awesome year.
 
We can finally use "real" top of the line hardware...not being limited by Apple is going to be nice!
 
Tom.Wong said:
Part of me just wants to blow the money and build a PC system from scratch... must fight it...
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Yeah if I didn't have two Epic-X's on the way... I would be in that state of mind too. I have to wire the money off to RED to avoid temptations.
 
Bye bye apple

Bye bye apple

In q1 2012 i will move to windows!!,

Thanks so much!!!, I only need resolve to move.
 
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