GPU Benchmarking time | ||||||
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I am planning to do a round of benchmarking of the latest GPUs. I am mostly interested in Maya, .r3d GPU debayer, and V-Ray RT performance, but I'm happy to run additional stuff if anyone has specific requests and can provide a scene file. |
Flame 2015 | ||||||
| posted by Francisco Ernesto Lima on June 26, 2014, 4:50 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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| Hello guys. Anyone running Flame 2015 on projects? We are going to install it next week and hope to use it on an upcoming project. Any info on stability issues are welcome. Best Rgds! Francisco Lima VFX Technology Supervisor Sent from my iPhone To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe |
Offsite data storage (Vancouver) | ||||||
| posted by Mathieu Mauser on June 26, 2014, 5:15 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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| Hi I'm looking for options for a studio in Vancouver. Considering everything fromtaking tapes offsite everyday to co-locating a server and some storage in a data Center. Looking at 20-40TB worth of data right now. Always growing but not a huge amount daily. Could be seeded backup to start. Thanks, Mat X |
4K Projects | ||||||
| posted by Francisco Ernesto Lima on June 27, 2014, 7 a.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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Hello! I was wondering how you guys have been seeing the push for 4K content delivery, not only acquisition but 4K Post in the Advertising space. Do you guys feel that there's been a significant increase of clients requesting 4K Post and delivery? Specially after CES and NAB 2014 where you could equipment, displays, new cameras supporting 4K, all over. Best Rgds! Chico Lima
VFX Supervisor The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. |
duel ps survey and thoughts | ||||||
| posted by Brian Krusic on June 27, 2014, 12:15 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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| Hi, I run most of my servers on duel ps but 2 very critical ones were purchased several years back with a single and a standby on the shelf. It was a Sunfire but just a plain old x64 proc. Wondering if you all run any of your gear on a single high quality ps? And your thoughts on the entire duel ps approach. Its one of those things that weve been doing for years w/o questioning wether we really still need to. - Brian SoCals #1 Sandpaper Superstore. More Grit For Less Green. |
Just A Reminder - OS X was reallhy never 64bit | ||||||
| posted by Jorg-Ulrich Mohnen on June 27, 2014, 3:06 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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Starting a bash / review of OSX from 10.5 through 10.6 through 10.7 through 10.8 and on into Cloud Mavericks and soon Yosemite. We have been depricating a bunch of MacPro Machines for the lastest Ashtrays. First claim to make is that Apple really ripped off a bunch of studios. By Delivering Mac Pro machines that on first boot run in 32bit mode is one thing. To not tell all its customers that most programs did not support 64bit is a second thing. But the hammer is that Apple sold millions of USD's worth of very expensive RAM to many, many, many poeple. RAM that could never have been fully utilized with 32bit programs. Even Final Cut 7 has now been outed to be a 32bit program. So for those studios and editors who believed in the Silver OSX Pipe Dream, buying all that additional RAM was a farse correct? Under "About This Mac" in these new Ashtrays, the area where it states YES/NO as booted into 64bit is now not there anymore. Under Applications, it still lists whether a program is running as 64bit. But APPLE has taken the field out where it tells you whether 10.9.x is boot into 64bit mode. I wonder if Apple is still hiding something. For sure it will take quite a few years for all the software developers to continue to truly turn to 64bit under )S X. In fact I cannot believe I am posting this as 32/64 bit was a monsster of the past back in 2002/2003. For Apple to have sold all this Memory and made a world wide empire on a LIE is really disgusting. I thought we should all chime in and hash this out once and for all.
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xattr; hidden attribute? | ||||||
| posted by Brian Krusic on June 27, 2014, 4:55 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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| Hi, Pondering this, we have a situation were a directory itself should only be visible by its group members. Not simply locking down its contents, but rather, not allowing it to be even visible unless you are in the proper group. I can easily lock down contents, but would like to go further and lock down its root. Now... locking down its roots root is not an option. Im in a Linux env, is this possible? - Brian SoCals #1 Sandpaper Superstore. More Grit For Less Green. |
OSX version best for Finder besides 10.6.7 | ||||||
| posted by Brian Krusic on June 28, 2014, 12:45 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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| Hi, Out of the versions below, does any one feel one is better then the other regard a stable Finder; 10.7 10.8 10.9 I think theres a 10.10 out or soon? Im at a cross road and am curious what the community has experienced? - Brian SoCals #1 Sandpaper Superstore. More Grit For Less Green. |
Siggraph 2014 | ||||||
| posted by Jathavan Sriram on June 28, 2014, 2:20 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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Siggraph 2014 | ||||||
| posted by Brian Krusic on June 28, 2014, 2:30 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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What's Siggraph ... - Brian Sent from my stupid POS iPhone on the craptaculous AT&T network.
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[OT] facebook as science experiment | ||||||
| posted by Wayne Chang on June 28, 2014, 4:45 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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Thunderbolt Converter/Adapter for MacPro5,1 | ||||||
| posted by James Bourne on June 29, 2014, 8:50 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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Hi all, I've got a bunch of MacPro5,1 towers. We are receiving media that is on LaCie rugged drives that are Thunderbolt/USB3 only. |
PCoIP over WAN? | ||||||
| posted by Ryan Johnson on June 30, 2014, 12:20 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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Hi All- Anyone have any experience using PCoIP- specifically Teradici's tech- over a WAN link? We're looking for a remote access solution that provides better quality and less latency than VNC etc. over links around 10Mb/s. In our case, we'd be using the software client, not a dedicated hardware client. Thanks! -Ryan |
Adobe CC for create teams license | ||||||
| posted by Brian Krusic on June 30, 2014, 4:25 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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| Hi all, So when I spoke to our rep at Adobe back in Feb, there were going to have a way to not require each person to login before using a license. A sort of auto login per machine if you will. And that there would be a license server on site to handle license logins. So recently we made the leap and bought CC for creative teams or whatever its called and now one must create an individual email for each person? Well as you, we have ppl coming and going. How are you managing through all this? I assume we can deactivate accounts of freelancers no longer onsite there by freeing up a lic for a new freelancer etc and this process goes on and on and on. Ive been trying to get a hold of our rep at Adobe but no dice, simply silence. - Brian SoCals #1 Sandpaper Superstore. More Grit For Less Green. To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe |
Wacom control panel and Centos 6? | ||||||
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Hi (Travis) The Gihub project at https://github.com/tb2097/wacom-gui is dead. Is this still available? thanks! - cal@bluebolt ---------------------------------- On Jan 21, 2014, at 9:10 AM, Travis Best <best@rhythm.com> wrote: I got clearance to put the source up so you can find it here: https://github.com/tb2097/wacom-gui ... Travis |
Running Adobe plugins off network drive | ||||||
| posted by Brian Krusic on July 1, 2014, 12:55 p.m. | ||||||
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| Hi, Any one have any tips/tricks/gotchas in doing this? Im pretty sure the network share will have to be case incentive for this. I was installing a plugin the other day and it required case incentive location, I was shocked that this is still a requirement. The installer itself also required the same to even run. - Brian SoCals #1 Sandpaper Superstore. More Grit For Less Green. |
Siggraph Next Gen reveal VIP event | ||||||
| posted by Anthony Lopez on July 1, 2014, 2:45 p.m. | ||||||
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| Hey Everyone, I'm posting this event for a good friend of mine. I hope to see you all there. Aug. 13th @ Vancouver Art Gallery 7:30PM Drinks and Food (OPEN BAR) First public look at Lenovos Next Gen workstations (hands on for the public) Brief intro by Scott Ross, Intel, and Nvidia speaking on real time VFX pipeline on set Allen Bolden showing new Athena Online tool, and demoing other Real Time pipeline tools from various companies to bring VFX creation on location All demos are at stations for people to check out at their leisure while enjoying company of other VIPS. Less an event, more of a celebration for a machine made with VFX artists in mind. Journalists from your favorite industry mags will be there as well. There is limited space so please RSVP to info@wipfx.com if interested. Thanks, Tony To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe |
Vray + Max issue | ||||||
| posted by William Sandler on July 3, 2014, 10:25 a.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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We're currently renting a farm with Max and Vray. One scene the artists are working on is getting stuck at 99% or 100% but never saving out the image. This is happening on a bunch of frames. It gets stuck with one black box (bucket) un-rendered. I don't think it's a RAM issue because these machines have rendered larger shots for us in the past. |
Reliance and PF | ||||||
| posted by on July 3, 2014, 12:15 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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And now Reliance and PF are merging. shawn |
OT and probably LA specific: the cloud makes
everything better | ||||||
| posted by Jean-Francois Panisset on July 3, 2014, 12:50 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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According to the login page for Office 365: the cloud is so amazing that it makes traffic go away on PCH (of course, I'm assuming here that the background image for the Office 365 login page isn't geo specific, if it is, this will only make sense to people with ISPs located in LA). JF |
