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
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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. >>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> PC.
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