Flame 2011

[paul_round]

Love the new features, (bit scared of stereo, if I’m honest!), especially pixel shading, very useful at film res, however I’m disappointed that there is no background archiving option available, particularly as backdraft/conform is no more and with the serious price drop of Flare, (very much welcomed), this will be one area that will prevent many people taking on multiple Flare workstations
Still, can’t wait to get my hands on it though!

Paul

[Saran Sirikasamsap]

perhaps a simpler version of backdraft* running off a laptop thats only for archiving 🙂

the new features look supercool, hopefully SLI in the future would help make processing even faster without having to buy burn*

[Shannon Gans]

“Problem” with SLI is you need two extra slots to put another FX5800 in. Then there is a minor issue of power – each FX5800 takes two power connectors, and then there is heat.

What would be a better solution is Cuda – single slot card going to an external box with upto 4 fx5800 cards (feel the power!).
http://www.nvidia.com/object/what_is_cuda_new.html
Possible downside is performance – the bus feeding Cuda is PICe2 which is the same as Z800 feeding a single FX5800, problem here is that it’s possible feeding 4 cards on the same size/width bus.

I have been wanting to test burn (and sapphire V5) with cuda for many months to see if there is a major performance hike but have been unable to get a card set out of NVidia so far….

Regards

Chris

[Saran Sirikasamsap]

im waiting to see how good the sapphire stereoscopic plugs are when it come to speed and GPU acceleration :).. but yeah, i see what u mean, a new box with cooling. wonder if cuda would be a viable alternative to burn* ?

[Matt]

@paul_round 30150 wrote:

Love the new features, (bit scared of stereo, if I’m honest!), especially pixel shading, very useful at film res, however I’m disappointed that there is no background archiving option available, particularly as backdraft/conform is no more and with the serious price drop of Flare, (very much welcomed), this will be one area that will prevent many people taking on multiple Flare workstations
Still, can’t wait to get my hands on it though!

Paul

Hi Paul,

Didn’t see the revised price of Flare. What have they reduced that down to? Still need a Flame, presumably.

Andy

[pixelmonk]

Hi Andy, you well?
Yes, still need a flame, here is the post:
http://www.fxguide.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7626&page=3

[Matt]

Thanks Paul.
Definitely interesting stuff.
All good with me thanks. Must try and drop by again soon. Still in same location?
Andy

[pixelmonk]

Yup, still at Peerless, must do beer soon.

[Roger Koller]

Hey Guys!!!

I´ve just installed the Flame 2011. I really liked the new features.

But I have a question about the hotkeys! I can´t find the old hotkey “C”, to expand/collapse clip into the desktop. Anybody knows where is it?

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

create a new user.

[Isaac]

i think if you have 10gigE or IB network speed you can now archive in the bkgd with smoke on a mac. might even be able to do it (with performance issues) at regular gigabyte ethernet. i think that’s why they scrapped backdraft.

best,
tim

[Anonymous]

nope. no background archiving yet. 🙁

backdraft is almost useless. we have one, and, without a text module for slating, its kinda lame.

why buy a backdraft when you can buy a Smoke on Mac? The only thing that sucks about this is that with Backdraft, at least you could throw old hardware at it, like an old IBM or something. But now, you need relatively new hardware, so…you kinda guy fork out some additional cash for a pimped Mac.

randy

[pixelmonk]

Personally, I don’t see why you should have to buy anything, particularly a Smoke on Mac, just for something as basic as archiving, should be a bgd (or via wiretap) free utility by now.

Paul

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