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macmenace · 2006-11-28 2:05 am

(In a small dorm room.)
Mac Pro in sig.
20 inch NEC MultiSync 20WMGX2.
Microsoft Wireless laser mouse 5000.
External Lacie HD.
Sennheiser PXC 300 NoiseGuard Advance.
Xbox 360 (with GoW wink ) connected to input 2 of Nec display.

thume · 2006-11-28 3:22 am

mac-compliant wrote:
Hopefully ok in the same post, but here is a question: What kind of job do you have that requires that much firepower? I am wondering what everyone does for a job/hobby (that is, if you dont mind me asking).

Editing HD video.
Quite often 3-stream multicam. (work)
Real time full quality, full frame rate, preview of a 3 cam multiclip pushes my MacPro to about 60-80% on all 4 cores.

pirloui · 2006-11-28 5:06 am

I like ScifiterX s pic best smile

Here is my setup, Seems there aren't many CRTs left. 17" trinitron for 7euro.
This is my temporary osx86 setup, it will be replaced by a mid-range MBP in january. (Celeron D 2,8 ; 2x 512 MB ram, radeon 9600)

Keeping: Laser printer, Airport express, External hardrive 200, 320 & 500 GB & place by the window.

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avkills · 2006-11-28 9:15 am

thume wrote:
mac-compliant wrote:
Hopefully ok in the same post, but here is a question: What kind of job do you have that requires that much firepower? I am wondering what everyone does for a job/hobby (that is, if you dont mind me asking).
Editing HD video.
Quite often 3-stream multicam. (work)
Real time full quality, full frame rate, preview of a 3 cam multiclip pushes my MacPro to about 60-80% on all 4 cores.

What format HD you editing? Can those internal SATA drives handle uncompressed 10bit HD?

-mark

pastor macman · 2006-11-28 9:42 am

I work at a church (PASTOR macman should give that away).

I create videos for the church as well as anything graphic in nature. I used to work at a printshop just out of highschool, then had my own business as a graphic artist before I started working at my church as a youth pastor. Eventually they hired a different youth pastor so I could take over their non-existant video/graphics department. I've been doing that for about 5 years now. You can see some of the videos I've made here:

www.vbf.org

Click where it says "experience vbf."

We usually have, on average, one video each week (sometimes two or three). They range from promo videos for a certain ministry or event, to testimony interviews, to funny illustrations. We shoot everything in HDV even though it is only displayed in SD. Our new sanctuary will be finished in April and we will then be all HD-SDI. In fact, two of our new cameras are coming in tomorrow.

JVC GY-HD250U

You can also see our new sanctuary going up at our website.

thume · 2006-11-28 9:44 am

avkills wrote:
thume wrote:
mac-compliant wrote:
Hopefully ok in the same post, but here is a question: What kind of job do you have that requires that much firepower? I am wondering what everyone does for a job/hobby (that is, if you dont mind me asking).
Editing HD video.
Quite often 3-stream multicam. (work)
Real time full quality, full frame rate, preview of a 3 cam multiclip pushes my MacPro to about 60-80% on all 4 cores.
What format HD you editing? Can those internal SATA drives handle uncompressed 10bit HD?

-mark

I have no idea. We only work with the low-end HDV 1080i 60, it's 25 Mbit/s same as DV, but seems to require more juice than the DVCAM stuff we used to work with.

PHUSMC · 2006-11-28 9:56 am

Pastor macman, that's pretty cool. We do some stuff like that at my church, but not too often.

longboy · 2006-11-28 11:15 am

Here's my junk, plain and simple. I like beer.

Zander · 2006-11-28 11:45 am

thume wrote:
avkills wrote:
thume wrote:

Editing HD video.
Quite often 3-stream multicam. (work)
Real time full quality, full frame rate, preview of a 3 cam multiclip pushes my MacPro to about 60-80% on all 4 cores.
What format HD you editing? Can those internal SATA drives handle uncompressed 10bit HD?

-mark
I have no idea. We only work with the low-end HDV 1080i 60, it's 25 Mbit/s same as DV, but seems to require more juice than the DVCAM stuff we used to work with.

Only 60-80%? eek Thus proves that the Mac Pro is perfect for video editing and such.

What are your render speeds like?

uncreativename · 2006-11-28 11:45 am

Dual 2.7Ghz G5
Dual 23" Apple displays
5X500GB Western Digital Internal HD
4GB Ram.

A bunch of random external drives to back random other tv shows and commercials we've edited.

word.

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Zander · 2006-11-28 11:49 am

MB38 wrote:
Zander wrote:
MB38 wrote:

I dig the acoustic foam, where'd you pick it up?
B&H
I bought about 32 1x1 tiles for $100. Only half is shown in the pic.
Which variety did you purchase? That's quite the price... all the foam I've picked up in the past has cost an arm and a firstborn child.

It appears they don't have my combo pack anymore. The closest I can find is the DST-114

thume · 2006-11-28 12:38 pm

Zander wrote:
thume wrote:
avkills wrote:

What format HD you editing? Can those internal SATA drives handle uncompressed 10bit HD?

-mark
I have no idea. We only work with the low-end HDV 1080i 60, it's 25 Mbit/s same as DV, but seems to require more juice than the DVCAM stuff we used to work with.
Only 60-80%? Thus proves that the Mac Pro is perfect for video editing and such.

What are your render speeds like?

Uhh, jeez well I haven't really paid attention because it auto-renders when I'm out of the house, but don't really have to render much before I export anymore.Exporting unrendered HDV sequences to QT movie seems to be between 2-4x the sequence length (30mins takes 1-2hours), but usually on the quicker side of that.
Export to H.264 with quicktime conversion seems to be about 4-6x sequence length.

But compressor is fast as smurf (however I haven't seen use more that about %60 of the CPU power.)

Zander · 2006-11-28 12:56 pm

Wow. I really want a Mac Pro.

musicalmac · 2006-11-28 2:41 pm

longboy wrote:
Here's my junk, plain and simple. I like beer.

lol Your avatar kills me!! lol

longboy · 2006-11-28 4:25 pm

musicalmac wrote:
Your avatar kills me!!

What does the text read in yours? Or am I just getting old? confused eek

bloomsday · 2006-11-28 9:54 pm

smilr's cardboard server rules.

joseoscare · 2006-11-29 12:17 pm

Here's mine:

17" 1.33 Ghz PowerBook
23" Cinema Display
iSight
Harman/Kardon Soundsticks
2G iPod Shuffle
4G iPod
Mighty Mouse
HP Deskjet 5110
Canon FB630U scanner (Going old school rocks !!!)
120 Gig Lacie External HD
Canon Powershot s20 (3 MP)
Canon Rebel XT (8 MP)
Wacom Graphire (Blue)
Old Sony Camcorder... (need a new HD one)

ConnertheCat · 2006-11-29 12:57 pm

1.6 Ghz G5, 1.25 GB of RAM
17" Dell Something Monitor, iSight equipped
Intuos 12" tablet
Athalon 64 1.8 GHZ, 1 GB of RAM
15" Dell something monitor

(not pictured, 12 inch G4 iBook (last revision)).

Picture to be included when I get home.

bloomsday · 2006-11-29 1:21 pm

i like that studio in Bucktown.

uncreativename · 2006-11-29 4:38 pm

thanks!

bloomsday · 2006-11-30 4:47 pm

looking at some of these Power/MacBook configurations with external monitors...
i'm reminded why i dig my TiBook 867...
ports in the rear.

my cable management skills are bad enough.

CrashingtehWarehouse · 2006-11-30 5:16 pm

bloomsday wrote:
looking at some of these Power/MacBook configurations with external monitors...
i'm reminded why i dig my TiBook 867...
ports in the rear.

my cable management skills are bad enough.

OH man, I totally agree. I really enjoy being able to have my mouse right next to where I type so I don't have to go very far to get to it, but when I've got to hook up some external stuff (Ext HD, etc) it just drives me nuts. smile

ConnertheCat · 2006-12-01 9:51 am

ConnertheCat wrote:
1.6 Ghz G5, 1.25 GB of RAM
17" Dell Something Monitor, iSight equipped
Intuos 12" tablet
Athalon 64 1.8 GHZ, 1 GB of RAM
15" Dell something monitor

(not pictured, 12 inch G4 iBook (last revision)).

Picture to be included when I get home.

bloomsday · 2006-12-01 12:41 pm

i want that lightsaber!

ConnertheCat · 2006-12-01 12:42 pm

Hadhafang is sitting behind it.

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