Re: [Avid-L2] Video Satellite? Black Magic Hyperdeck?

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.

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On Mar 12, 2012, at 10:11 AM, Greg Huson wrote:

> Kevin
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> 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:
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>> 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.
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>> Kevin
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>> On Mar 12, 2012, at 9:59 AM, Stuart Lawn wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>>> Video Satellite is fantastic if you have
>>> a) An all Avid workflow
>>> b) Shared storage
>>> c) Deep pockets
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>>> Cheers
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>>> Stuart
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>>> -----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?
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>>> 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.
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>>> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Greg Huson <Greg@...> wrote:
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>>>> 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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>>>> On Mar 11, 2012, at 10:12 PM, "Terence Curren" <tcurren@...> wrote:
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>>>>> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Greg Huson <Greg@> wrote:
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>>>>> <<I'm trying to find a better solution for picture with protools, without adding an expansion chassis. >>
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>>>>> PC.
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