Scratch 3.9 rocks on MacPro 8 core

[Adam Glick]

The Highend Scratch/Boxxx sellers on this thread are very quiet the last few pages of this threat. Please feel free to comment!! :spidy:

Ofcourse. a Realtime 4K R3D solution is great.
But the fact there is a 4K workflow on a dual Boot MacBook Pro is pretty awesome.
I think the scratch software only price is too much.
but i understand with the current R3D monopoly :ranting2:

I guess I haven't read anything I felt the need to comment on. Nothing new here...

It is my belief that it will be a while before we see realtime, full quality (HD or 2K) playback or SDI output of native r3d clips from a Mac. And I don't see anything changing after the release of b16 with regard to this.

Not to start a flame war or fanboy agitation, but if you want to use Scratch (or Speedgrade for that matter)- and you need to go to out SDI, you will need to use PC.
If you want realtime HD or 2K, then you are further limited to the Scratch Cine option - which requires a specially tuned PC.

 

[Fredrik Harreschou]

If you want realtime HD or 2K, then you are further limited to the Scratch Cine option - which requires a specially tuned PC.

You are confusing people with this statement. A full SCRATCH will have the same performance on the same hardware. And a lot more options and tools.

EDIT: Your post seem to imply that the "specially tuned pc" is only available for SCRATCH CINE. SCRATCH CINE is a sub set of SCRATCH with the same performance. Of course you know this

 

[Nicos Ambatzis]

Is there anybody tried to run Scratch Cine on a Mac Pro ????
Scratch advices to run it only in PC!!!! It's a shame, isn't it????

 

[M Most]

Is there anybody tried to run Scratch Cine on a Mac Pro ????
Scratch advices to run it only in PC!!!! It's a shame, isn't it????

What is the point of trying to run something whose primary purpose is real time SDI output directly from the video card on a machine that doesn't support SDI output from the video card?

Besides, you are aware that Scratch is a Windows only product, aren't you?

 

[Adam Glick]

You are confusing people with this statement. A full SCRATCH will have the same performance on the same hardware. And a lot more options and tools.

EDIT: Your post seem to imply that the "specially tuned pc" is only available for SCRATCH CINE. SCRATCH CINE is a sub set of SCRATCH with the same performance. Of course you know this

Thanks Frederik - I guess I can see how this might be a little confusing.

My point is: without the special hardware, the value of Scratch Cine is greatly diminished. Its only purpose is for working with .r3d files -and without the "optimized" workstation, you can't get realtime playback.

I guess I am assuming that the folks here understand that the "full" Scratch seat doesn't require anything special in the way of overclocked CPU's. Standard dual CPU workstations (and qualified RAID storage & Quadro GPU) are all that's needed to use the full Scratch grading and finishing toolset for traditional DI HD/2K/4K pipelines (using DPX, etc).

Sorry for causing any confusion - that's the last thing we need here.