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?
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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.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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