Video: 2 min recap of Ultra Natural 2013. Check out the full episode here In February, I was in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada, coordinating the post production for Red Bull’s Ultra Natural event. We set up a 4 bay post facility in a hotel in Nelson; ingesting, organizing and editing footage from roughly 20 cameras. […]
Read More adobe, apple, Avid, Blackmagic, Brain Farm, cc, creative cloud, cs6, cuda, Davinci, FCP, flanders, fsi, mac pro, macbook pro, Maxx, Maxx Digital, mobile rocket, nbc, premiere pro, Red, red bull, red rocket, retina, san, small tree, ultra naturalI’m in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada this week, coordinating the on-site post for Red Bull Ultra Natural. We built a 4 bay post facility in a hotel room, and turned around 2 cuts less than 24 hours after the event. The “Action Edit” is above. Stay tuned for a full recap on the portable SAN […]
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The new version of Glue Tools PhantomCine Toolkit, in this case, 3.1.2693, has Open CL GPU acceleration. Since converting Phantom Cine files to ProRes is a daily occurrence at Brain Farm, I thought I would do some speed tests. I got some interesting results. Source Clip: Phantom Flex, 2560×1440, 49 seconds Test System: Mac Pro 4.1, 8×2.23GHz, […]
Read More adobe, cine, compressor, cs6, cuda, glue tools, gpu, gtx570, media encoder, nvidia, open cl, Phantom, PremiereAdobe Premiere Pro CS6 includes a new technology called Mercury Playback Engine. The engine can use GPU processing on nVidia cards using CUDA architecture to accelerate renders. When perusing the list for compatible cards for Mac Pros, there’s only 3 cards listed. These cards are now a few years old, overpriced and are nowhere near as powerful as nVidia’s […]
Read More cuda, Davinci, ebay, GeForce, gpu, GTX285, macvidcards, nvidia, Premiere, quadro, quadro 4000, resolveI’ve installed or recommended nVidia GPU cards for clients and friends for quite awhile now. Personally, I’m rocking a GTX570 in my Mac Pro for Premiere Pro and Resolve. I also have a GT120 installed as the second card for when I use Resolve. Most of the time my monitors are connected to the GTX570. […]
Read More adobe, apple, cuda, Davinci, gpu, gtx, gtx570, kernel, mac, nvidia, panic, resolveI’ve noticed this now on enough systems to call this a bug, and since it involves 2 out of date pieces of software and one out of date graphics card, it’s unlikely that Apple will address it. Problem: Skipping playback in the Canvas and/or Viewer windows in Final Cut Pro 7 on Mac Pros with […]
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