Optimum Config for Toxik

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I would like to know what would be the optimum config for running Toxik. The Autodesk/Discreet website in woefully inadequate in providing any information on this.

[Intoxikated]

Hi,
The ultimate highend config for toxik is:

Nvidia Quadro FX4400
Fastest Dual Intel Xeon
3 GB Ram
JBOD with Fibrechannel for local cache (1 TB)
widescreen 23 or 24″ LCD
9×12 Wacom

For each of the 5 Toxik Creative nodes within the collaborative environment.
Hope that helps
🙂

[Anonymous]

That is the ultimate config. The minimum config is a Quaddro FX graphics card with an Intel P4 CPU with 1 gig of RAM. Toxik has a mediacache and the performance you get from it is dictated by the hardware that you run it on. So the speed of your disks will determine what you can play back in real-time. I just showed Toxik at Siggraph on a machine with two striped SCSI drives playing back HD in real-time. We will try to get more info on the Toxik config on the website.

thanks,

Chris Vienneau
Toxik product manager

[Anonymous]

Thanks for that info… I saw the presentation at Siggraph of Toxik and it looked great! But what about price range? Combustion 4 is just under a grand and for that price it is great, and finally do you think taking the leap Combustion to Toxik will be a definite advantage?

[rohit]

maybe discreet should also include scenarios of where toxik should be used on their webpage….a lotta people think its a replacement fer flame or combustion but its not.

[nanuk]

rohit wrote:

maybe discreet should also include scenarios of where toxik should be used on their webpage….a lotta people think its a replacement fer flame or combustion but its not.

They do. Toxik was developed for filmpipelines. Studios with a large amount of people working together. This is the collaborative thing. And this is also the reason, why they want to sell it only in bundles of 5. And it is for DI. But I heard rumors, that they are thinking of supporting an I/O. Because many customers are asking for it. We will see. Perhaps the NAB will reveal more. Hopefully!

Greetz Nanuk

[patdawg]

nanuk wrote:

rohit wrote:

maybe discreet should also include scenarios of where toxik should be used on their webpage….a lotta people think its a replacement fer flame or combustion but its not.

They do. Toxik was developed for filmpipelines. Studios with a large amount of people working together. This is the collaborative thing. And this is also the reason, why they want to sell it only in bundles of 5. And it is for DI. But I heard rumors, that they are thinking of supporting an I/O. Because many customers are asking for it. We will see. Perhaps the NAB will reveal more. Hopefully!

Greetz Nanuk

Actually, I could see it being very useful in a commercial post-production environment. We do vfx shots all the time where the collaborative workflow would be VERY useful even in small 3-5 person workgroups. Not to mention all the other nice stuff…the TouchUI, floating point, etc etc… I can’t wait to see the new stuff at NAB.

[rohit]

well… i saw the new version a few weeks back in singapore and was drooling and [ hate to say this] but actually forgot about flame for a SHORT while….then it slowly dawns on u that tocik barely has any of the tools in flame that are needed for serious comping!!…would be great to have one toXik client and 3 slaves in a typical tv commercial post environ

[rohit]

i also wish one could hook up a viper directly to toxik..if they put in proper i/o in the first place 🙂

[patdawg]

rohit wrote:

i also wish one could hook up a viper directly to toxik..if they put in proper i/o in the first place 🙂

I would think that if you have the budget to shoot on Viper, then you have the budget to do a proper solour session with the Viper footage before it gets to Toxik, flame, or whatever else you’re doing your comps on. Why would you directly import raw Viper data?

[rohit]

cos im curious about the i/o bandwidth issues and of course with the way toxik works one can start off work on scenes while CC happens in lustre in another room…toxik would manage alll the media and shots can be updated easily from the colour corrected source…doesnt that make sense? so have one central manager?

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