[Avid-L2] Re: Mac Smoke Official

Here is Scott Malkie's updated estimate on a start-up turnkey McSmoke suite. This includes almost everything....couple things he did leave out was core costs (meaning the amount of rental space needed, utilities, etc) and talent costs.

http://smokeosx.blogspot.com/

scroll about half way down...

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "oliverpetersvidy" <oliverpeters@...> wrote:
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> Where does the $40K figure come from? Are we talking about a basic Mac Pro (fully loaded) or something else? That's $6K for the Mac (tops) plus $2K for the AJA card. The rest (room, monitors, storage, etc.) would be the same for all systems. So $15K + $8K + $2K support.
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> The real question is whether any custom or specialized hardware is required. On regular Autodesk systems, an advanced NVIDIA card is used and the AJA card is only used for I, not O. That's not really a "standard" Mac editing set-up. As such, the question remains, does this unit become a Smoke-only installation, or can you run FCP, MC, CS4, etc. on the same workstation? If so, it's more attractive than if not.
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> Terry commented on the single screen UI. That's pretty typical of Autodesk and I presume a 30" would work well. The big thing in the Smoke world is that you don't have a ton of bins open, which usually occupies the other monitor on FCP and MC systems. Thus, better for finishing and not good for offlining.
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> Again I point out, that Avid COULD have been here with the DS, but has chosen not to. After all, there was a DS Assist for $10K. That plus I/O through an AJA card would have been even more cost-effective than Smoke on a Mac. Will that prove to be a good or bad decision?
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> - Oliver
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