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Running Three 20" on a new Dual Core
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morrisond said:
I process about 1,200 D2X images on a good day. The two twenties were killing me.
I think I may get another thirty, though, after watching the Aperture videos.
iGary said:I process about 1,200 D2X images on a good day. The two twenties were killing me.
I think I may get another thirty, though, after watchign the Aperture videos.
iGary has deep deep pockets. I jumped in them and got lost!
Reanimation_LP said:
Nah, I was just commenting on the marketing brilliance of Apple. It made me
feel like I needed two of them....
http://www.apple.com/aperture/profiles/?kluetmeier
Bear said:
You're right.
The 8x or 16x designation refers to the PCIe slot. It seems the nVidia 6600 video card is being fed enough data in a 4x slot. So, putting it in a 8x slot would not make a difference on performance since the extra bandwidth isn't in use. Something like the 7800 probably has to be in the 16x slot.
The Cinema Displays refresh at 60-75 Hz, so framerates beyond this are unecessary. Also, usually framerates are reserved for 3D games and the like. Any video card can easily put out the updates for typical use. Using say Photoshop doesn't tax your video card, it relies on the CPU. Also, this will change as more developer's embrace Core Video. Aperture is an example of this. Core Video uses the video card to produce real-time effects. Rather than using the CPU to do all of the computations, Core Video does the same work on the video card. So, if you're looking to use Aperture a lot (or Final Cut Pro, Motion, et al.), it might be worth it to get the 7800 for your primary displays.
Huh? Can't you capitalize the equipment and depreciate it over three years if you buy it? What personal/corporate structure do you have?morrisond said:
iGary said:
iGary - Have 2 questions for you:
1) Do you plan on buying Aperture and use it as your photo manager for your work.
2) I was just curious - What exactly do you do with Photoshop. You seem to always say, "I'm using Photoshop all day etc." yet I don't really understand what you are doing. So you get the images from the photographers, and then what do you do. Could you just take me through what you do with a hypothetical image. Your job sounds cool, and I was just wondering if your field would interest me when I'm out of high school.
osprey76 said:
From what I've read the 7800 is not going to be available, so that is why I was thinking two 6600 for a relatively cheap solution and half decent frame rates.
I like Flight sims as well and supposedly in the latest version of X-Plane I can use the full 3,940 *1,200 pixels of two 23's which is why I'M thinking of more Video Horespower.
Hopefully they have the 7800 or it's equivalent ready by the time my computers ready to ship.
macbaseball said:
1. It's already ordered. The program appears absolutely flawless. It combines Photoshop, Portfolio and some other yummy features I am using multiple apps for currently.
2. I get in digital aerial photographs from about 7 teams in Europe, the Med and North America on a daily basis burned to DVD.
My job is to edit them, color correct them and make sure that the photographer takes the specified angles for each target (usually a marina, large yacht harbor, waterfront) per the client's specification. Haze, overexposure, fog, glare all get corrected in Photoshop. Sometimes batch, sometimes one at a time.
I also have to make sure that each image has proper GPS metadata, the file names meet the client's specs (they are bloody tedious) I use Adobe's POS Bridge for this.
All of this then gets batched in large 1,200-image folders (about 42 GB of data to crunch a day), and then burned to multiple DVD's for delivery.
Then I have to Keyword them, catalog them, get them ready for Web...blah de blah de blah. I use Portfolio for this.
Aperture appears to all of this seamlessly.
By the way, I much prefer to be hanging out of the chopper being the one takingthe pictures (I specialize in aerial, maritime and nautical photography). This gig is just to raise some capital to move onto other things once the contract is up. If you have any questions, PM me.
*excited about Aperture*
I just hope they don't deliver the effing thing in January.
iGary, I had no idea you do that much work with photos. Dealing 42 GB of photos a day is no fun easy task. Sure it may be enjoyable since it is your specialty, but does it ever get annoying? And I'm guessing Aperture will make your job much easier, correct?
Thank you iGary for taking the time to tell me about you job. Sounds like a lot of work, but at least you get to use a Mac alll day.
Artful Dodger said:At 6:30 am, knock, knock
LOL!!
Yeah, it get's annoying at times...boring....but today I did images form the south of France - very cool.
It's like any other job - highs and lows.
iGary said:LOL!!
Yeah, it get's annoying at times...boring....but today I did images form the south of France - very cool.
It's like any other job - highs and lows.
I must ask, and this can be directed at professionals in general.
Does the productivity gained by the new dual dual-core PowerMac justify an upgrade?
Is faster processing always needed or do the bottlenecks occur elsewhere?
chucknorris said:
Just wait until photographers start shooting with the new kodak 39MP image sensor
I'm planning out my new system as well. I had been thinking that I would go with either 2 Apple 23" ACDs. or 2 24" Dell displays.
Spent an hour in the Apple store last week. Spent considerable time on the 30" ACD. Gotta tell ya.....I'm really getting swayed in that direction. The amount of realestate on that one screen is just amazing. Huge timeline on FCP. High Res photo's are just......HUGE. New price drops help as well. It's now $800 cheaper CDN (but still a lot of coinage).
Still thinking...........
Spent an hour in the Apple store last week. Spent considerable time on the 30" ACD. Gotta tell ya.....I'm really getting swayed in that direction. The amount of realestate on that one screen is just amazing. Huge timeline on FCP. High Res photo's are just......HUGE. New price drops help as well. It's now $800 cheaper CDN (but still a lot of coinage).
Still thinking...........
I was in the apple store at lenox mall last week and downloaded a quicktime move from apple.com/quicktime (one of the high res trailers). the dual 2.5ghz PM with 1.5gb ram and a 30" ACD (with, I assume a pretty damn nice video card to run it, didnt check), was hiccuping on a 1080i h264 file! This tells me that dual monitors on seperate cards might still be the way to go because that one card, despite being able to make a safari window look stupid in a sea of blue desktop, still cant do full motion graphics scaled to that many pixels. I was very disappointed.
chaos86 said:
I wonder what GPU it had in it. I play 1080i h264 trailers just fine with my 30" display. And I only have a dual 1.8ghz G5. Plays at full frames. When I had the geforce5200, I only got about 10-15fps with those videos. I think the GPU plays a huge role in h264 playback.
As a proud owner of a brand new 30", I honestly can't tell you which way to go. When I ordered the monitor along with the Quad G5, it never occured to me that they would ship the monitor a month before the computer. So now, I have a beautiful new monitor just sitting on my desk, waiting for a computer powerful enough to drive it (my Powerbook doesn't cut it).
I can tell you, though, it looks as impressive as you can get. It is massive. Which is exactly the effect I was going for. It's nice to have clients come in and show them their project on a monitor like this.
It makes the 20" ACD I'm using now look small. That's sad. I remember how big it looked when I first got it.
I can tell you, though, it looks as impressive as you can get. It is massive. Which is exactly the effect I was going for. It's nice to have clients come in and show them their project on a monitor like this.
It makes the 20" ACD I'm using now look small. That's sad. I remember how big it looked when I first got it.
