1 mix and 1 dsp card and 1 fibre card makes for a full box. Brings up an interesting idea, though- maybe the money is better spent adding Ethernet capability to our shared storage system. How does the facility in NY connect to their unity/Isis/whatever?
GH
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On Mar 12, 2012, at 9:14 PM, Mark Spano <cutandcover@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greg,
>
> The question, when you boil it down, is how many DSP cards do you need,
> really?
>
> I scoped out the install of 11 Pro Tools rigs recently (using existing TDM
> hardware). They each got 1 mix and 1 DSP card, leaving plenty of room for
> the Decklink cards. This is for a professional post facility in NYC, and
> everyone's happy. Most of the processing these days can run native, and
> that can save you a lot of overhead on TDM. With your average 8-core Mac
> Pro, doing TV promo post work, it seemed unnecessary to put any more in
> there.
>
> Your <track count> may vary...
>
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Greg Huson <Greg@secrethq.com> wrote:
>
> > I've got PT 8.01 running on a tried-to-sell-it-but-couldn't power PC,
> > under OSx10.5.8 I'm going to see if I can lock that to PT 9 using Video
> > Satellite HD. Then all I have to do is grab a BMD card, find room in the
> > rack for yet another CPU, dig up a spare fibre card to connect it to the
> > terrablock... etc., etc...
> >
> > Of course, if our F'ing graphics server didn't have 3 cards in it
> > already... oh, never mind... It really shouldn't be this hard.
> >
> > gh
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> >
> >
> >
> > On Mar 12, 2012, at 10:11 AM, Greg Huson wrote:
> >
> > > Kevin
> > >
> > > How 'old' is the mac pro? Like, Power-mac old? And what version of PT
> > is running on them? The marketing materials seem imply it's PT8 LE. Is
> > there even a PT LE after V8?
> > >
> > > gh
> > > ----------------------------------------------------
> > > Greg Huson
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> > >
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> > >
> > > On Mar 12, 2012, at 10:04 AM, Kevin Perry wrote:
> > >
> > >> FYI, we run Video Satellite LE here at Dolby Creative Services with a
> > Blackmagic card in an older Mac Pro, works great with our Quicktime videos.
> > Our Satellites are ethernet clients on our Terrablock, but there's no good
> > reason they couldn't just have a big fat scratch disk, either.
> > >> --
> > >> Kevin
> > >>
> > >> On Mar 12, 2012, at 9:59 AM, Stuart Lawn wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Even with a PC you can still only have 3 Pro Tools Accel cards in a
> > Z800. If I were you I'd stick with Mac and trade up to the HDX card range.
> > One HDX card is the equivalent processing power of 5 Accel cards. Then you
> > can put a Blackmagic card in the machine and play HD Quicktimes from the
> > timeline.
> > >>>
> > >>> Video Satellite is fantastic if you have
> > >>> a) An all Avid workflow
> > >>> b) Shared storage
> > >>> c) Deep pockets
> > >>>
> > >>> Cheers
> > >>>
> > >>> Stuart
> > >>>
> > >>> -----Original Message-----
> > >>> From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On
> > Behalf Of Terence Curren
> > >>> Sent: 12 March 2012 16:07
> > >>> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> > >>> Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: Video Satellite? Black Magic Hyperdeck?
> > >>>
> > >>> We bought the expansion boxes a few years back. But I only did it
> > because the mixers wouldn't go PC. It is much more economical to buy a PC
> > with a lot of slots than to buy a Mac AND an expansion chassis.
> > >>>
> > >>> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Greg Huson <Greg@...> wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Is that what you did? Not a bad idea, Actually. I wonder if I'd have
> > to cross-grade all those damn plug-ins...
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Hmmmm
> > >>>> __________________________
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> > >>>>
> > >>>> Sent from my iPad
> > >>>>
> > >>>> On Mar 11, 2012, at 10:12 PM, "Terence Curren" <tcurren@...> wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Greg Huson <Greg@> wrote:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> <<I'm trying to find a better solution for picture with protools,
> > without adding an expansion chassis. >>
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