[luc]

Humm…

i have seen running 4k+ at 5 place at IBC on pc system and most of the time over xp 32bits: Assimilate scratch, nucoda, lustre, flint linux, iridas.

Why di you said a pc can do that ? I know you can get a better score on bandwidth over sgi but do you need them… For my part a prefere a good mix over bandwidth and cpu power.

Discreet are not moving is solution over pc box ? License and diskarray. that what you paid for your system. The sgi box cost nothing.

luke
Waiting for toxic

[luc]

Hi

If you work the same way as flame, you can be faster on combustion than flame. Mostly because for the same spark combustion is faster. You just have to find why the flame do it faster. Most of the time is because you dont do it as the same way.

If you stay only in batch for comping in flame you got a lots of problem of processing time. Same as combustion.

Pre processing effect before comp it. Combustion can do that to, but not the majority of the compositor on combustion work like a flame user.

you have to try both before onderstanding what is the fastest way to work. Pre prossessing effect whit switch can be very usefull. Same think as create element on the desktop before comp in action.

Try to work in combustion like working in flame. Separate your alpha, use compound, pre-pocessing whit switch, use secondary connexion in shematic etc…

Discreet dont port flint and flame on pc because it tcheap. It because it faster…

So i’m waiting about toxic. I hope for NAB…

luke

[luc]

irsshh…

dont think you have try combustion if you runnning it on a powerbook. And over all, dont say thing like that…

I a have work on both i’m not going in your way at all. Take a look at this bench to have a idea. Combustion beat flame in processing time http://www.fxguide.com/postp1829.html#1829

And in a various case combustion is superior to flint. If you dont think money it more easy to compare combustion whit essentiels plugin to flame.

I work in the same market as you and i can certify is better to have both flame and combustion than only ffi station. Dont put your egg in the same bag…

luke

[luc]

Hi,

i have discover a new brand making s-ata & s-ataII card both pcix and pci-express benching more than 700mo sec in the pcix-133 version with only 6 drives.

You can take a look at : http://www.tweakers.net/benchdb/test/34

I have got one areca today. I want to see with me eye if it truth.

seeya

[luc]

hello, take a seat ot gone a hurt

– flint 75 000$
– a tezro running flame is arround 200 000$
– inferno 1 000 000$

the sgi machine cost this prices because of the frameStore. 6 terrabyte of fiber channel drives cost the big prices. The brand is for something too…

and a good pc is about 7000 to 10 000$ + softwares. But you dont have the same speed and size of raid. For the same quality of raid you can paid + 35 000$ just for your raid.

What you pay is what you get… But the thing is, the session of flame cost about 600 to 1000$ / hour.

your choice ?

[luc]

Hello

if your render is in opengl, just selecta software renderer. Some mode is not enable in the opengl mode.

Or you can have some recursive clip in the proxy’s. Delete proxy and reload all clip.

good luck

luke

[luc]

Hello

i have seen a demo at IBC, and Scrath is very impressive for a version 1. This soft is mostly to conform film & video, visualise 3Dlut and make some basic color correction.

A pc build arround fx4000 with a fast strip is needed. A keyer and possibly a batch can emerge for the first quater of 2005.

Right now you can not make advance compositing on it but the team look very motivate and i hope scratch can be a player on the future market of advance compositing software.

Cheers

luke

[luc]

Hello

this is the essentiels:

genarts sapphires all box
revisionfx reelsmart motion blur
revisionfx twixtor

have fun

[luc]

Hi Chek

i have try to set a higher value but, it crash too… C3 crash only when i save. It realy bizzard…

thank for trying…

luke

[luc]

hello

you can access your framestore on a pc with X-stoner. you can Ask for a evaluation license at http://www.xstoner.com or http://www.max-t.com/html/products/xstoner.html.

I’m not sure if you are able to delete files, you can send a email to this adress for support: [email protected]

Good luck

luc julien

[luc]

hello

i presently work on a dual amd 64 bits and combustion lag some time. I prefere dual Xeon than amd 64bits. So… Wait for windows 64 bits before buy this type of workstation.

I suggest to you the dual xeon 3.2 whit a u320 system drive. This is a safe value for production work.

Best regard

luc julien

[luc]

Hi chek

i think if you had a fiber channel disk array like the framestore of highend product, you probably reduce the gap between IO performance between pc,mac vs. sgi.

So it a oder bench…

See ya

[luc]

Hi

et oui Xavier, ca ma bien décourager d’avoir a l’ademettre aussi. J’ai tester le tezro hier et il reste moin performant que le G5 pour processer les sapphires.

Du coup comme je suis consultant pour monter une salle combustion sur paris j’ai du proposer le G5 comme solution hardware. Ma seul préocupation reste la stabilité. J’espère avoir des bons feedback ici. Ci oui il sera temp de passer au mac, en attendant l’itanium du moin.

J’ai tester opteron 64bits et ce n’est pas génial non plus. Microsoft tarde beaucoup trop avec la sortie de leurs windows 64. Les performances reste tres semble au dual xeon.

Je crois qu’il y aura une réel compétition entre le flame et combustion dans les mois qui viennent. Les sapphires on vraiment changer les données. A la limite ca contre un peu la mani de discreet de limiter sont mid-end par rapport a sont high-end.

le meilleur reste a venir !

Ciao

luc

[luc]

Hi folks,

finaly i have make the bench of the sapphires on a brand new tezro. The result is not very impressive…

So… The G5 win the sapphires bench.

luc julien

_______________/ pc ________/ flame _____/ G5 ___/ Tezro _____

RDefocus || 0 min 8.5sec || 0 min 25 sec || 3 sec || 5.0 sec ||

EdgeRays || 0 min 20 sec || 1 min 26 sec || 4 sec || 30.5 sec ||

WarpDrops || 0 min 31sec || 1 min 09sec || 21sec || 26 sec ||

—Glows— || 0 min 7.5sec || 0 min 18 ec || 4 sec || 7.0 sec ||

AutoPaint || 0 min 10.5sec || 0 min 34sec || 9 sec || 12.0 sec ||
________________________________________________________________

I have also test a dual amd 64bits opteron and the result is quite similar to the dual Xeon

[luc]

Hi,

you just missing a little detail, you have to use the mask in the tools panel of your plugins. This panel appear when you apply the plugin.

thanks Marc M. your tips. 😆

have fun

luke

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