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    Video production, editing, shooting, sailing, skiing,

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  1. I wonder what new toys 2013 will bring?

  2. Hi Andrew Another way forwards for the cost conscious user is an old Mac Pro. There seems to be a recognition that a new Mac Pro is imminent this year and the price of old 8 core 3.2gig 3.1 on ebay has dropped to around £1000 or less. The new i7 machines are fast but the imacs only have 4 cores so for instance in after effects I ran my old 3.1 3 gig against my friends 3.4 gig iMac and the render time was about the same. The new generation stuff due to ram speed and architecture etc. is about twice as fast. Now you can get a GTX570 for around £350. I have the hacked one with 2.5 gig ram. Premiere and Resolve see the cuda cores after tweaking the text files. There is also the K5000 out for £1400! Upsides to buying an old mac 3.1 or later is that they are 64 bit, intels and so you can run mountain lion and with rosetta on have FCP7 or X and Avid MC, Symphony and Premiere and Resolve. They just work and of course have plenty of slots to put in cards and raid 0 hard drives. I have no doubt that the faster bus of the 4.1 and 5.1 MacPro would make more of the Cuda cards but you pay your money and take your choice. I will be investing heavily this year in a crazy system to do higher end work at www.sublimepictures.tv but my old 3.1 is a great workhorse that has had a boost in life with the GTX570. I am looking forward to getting my Black Magic Camera and grading the footage on Resolve.
  3. Hi Andrew Loving your blog, I have also bought GH2 and anamorphic ebooks. I am from Saddleworth and the shots look familiar, where did you shoot them? This was my Saddleworth shoot on the GH2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRU-etGzWhI and http://vimeo.com/32405059. Have a great christmas and new year. Brian Barnes
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