> Did I miss anyone? Producers, Clients, Agency?
... h264´s for approvals sent to the iPhone/MacBookAir/iPad. you´ll never know what gamma settings your windows mp4 will give them unless you check it on a mac yourself. ...or just use vimeo to convert it for you... --- Comparing xp64 with win7_64 here now on, I had used the downgrade option to run xp64 from a win7 license to keep all machines identical/swappable. Benefits of win7 (on a MacPro2008): *directx 11 support (since vista) *harddisks >2TB will probably work just fine, xp64 4K sector alignment can be skipped *transferrate between harddisks in machine is a lot higher and the explorer gives detailed info about what it does *powersave modes for idling seem to work nice(r) *SSD support (caching) *more options included to easily backup or restore the whole system quickly (making clones easier as well as transfers to bigger disks) program support -adobe cs5+ line of products -ZBrush4R3 (and R4) not supported on xp64 Personally, I think I will enjoy using win7 on that MacPro2008. It´s not too cluttered, you still get at the management console easy enough if neccessary and the whole OS feels pretty stable. I´ll add some RAM to the MAC, 24-32GB will be good enough until the machine has written off from tax and a solid successor with roughly double the CPU power can be found, I guess. That would be a solid 3-5 year lifecycle then. Cheers, tim On 19.08.2012 08:32, Stefan Andersson wrote:
It all depends on what you are doing at work. *Animators*, likes windows or osx why: sound, viewport performance, video capture, quicktime *Generalist TD*, no preference why: cares only about scripting and I/O performace *TD/Programmers*, likes osx and linux why: actually only cares about terminals. As long as you can work through a terminal *Pipeline TD*, Linux or FreeBSD why: we wish everything worked on freebsd, but we settle for any linux flavor. *Concept Artist*, windows or osx why: Adobe rulez! And wacom just can't get the drivers to work correctly under Linux *Shading TD*, no preference why: as long as the renderer works *Modellers*, Windows or osx why: zbrush and a zillion of photoshop plugins Did I miss anyone? /stefan On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 1:17 AM, Andreas Bystrom <andreas.byst...@gmail.com <mailto:andreas.byst...@gmail.com>> wrote: "You realize that there are still a ton of people that are still running windows XP, right? You also seem to be forgetting Vista (which I actually liked, but most other people didn’t)." ofcourse, there are still people using win2k/nt even. also i did not forget vista, i ran it myself for years and was quite happy with it, win7 is better but overall vista wasn't that terrible either. also having used Linux for almost 2 years at work I've realized you can get used to and be quite happy with anything, its just a matter of using it long enough really, even though I still would never bother using linux at home.. On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Sam Bowling <sbowl...@cox.net <mailto:sbowl...@cox.net>> wrote: You realize that there are still a ton of people that are still running windows XP, right? You also seem to be forgetting Vista (which I actually liked, but most other people didn’t). *From:* Andreas Bystrom <mailto:andreas.byst...@gmail.com> *Sent:* Saturday, August 18, 2012 1:05 AM *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com <mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> *Subject:* Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone? ". So... I've installed Windows7 on my workstation at home. And so far I'm really impressed with the speed and the response from the system. Softimage works a lot smoother on Windows7 than on CentOS 6.3." hmm, it's not april.... did hell just freeze over? actually the day alan jones writes something like that will be the day hell truly freezes over.. on a serious note, for every single windows release that's about to come out since win2k I've heard the same exact thing "this will be terrible, I'm staying with win xxxx forever" yet those same people somehow upgraded throughout the years and found themselves quite happy... On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Stefan Andersson <sander...@gmail.com <mailto:sander...@gmail.com>> wrote: It's not any better in the Linux Camp. Everyone is moving towards tablet use. But what boggles me is that... how can the developers themselves stand it? On a side note. I've been using Linux for a long time now, but got fed up with crappy wacom drivers and the crippled paint applications. So... I've installed Windows7 on my workstation at home. And so far I'm really impressed with the speed and the response from the system. Softimage works a lot smoother on Windows7 than on CentOS 6.3. Anyhow, going to take a shower now since I feel quite dirty. And I think Windows 8 will be as Vista, a "side-note". They are already talking about Windows9. regards stefan On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Sylvain Lebeau <s...@shedmtl.com <mailto:s...@shedmtl.com>> wrote: this makes me think about Apple rumour to let go the dev on the mac pros... Seem's everybody is going nuts on the mobile thing. And all professional market get's ignored!! i wont be able to do Arnold render regions on my f-ing iphone!!!!! wtf is going on with these guys!? sly -- *Sylvain Lebeau // SHED** *V-P/Visual effects supervisor 1410, RUE STANLEY, 11E ÉTAGE MONTRÉAL (QUÉBEC) H3A 1P8 T 514 849-1555 <tel:514%20849-1555> F 514 849-5025 <tel:514%20849-5025>WWW.SHEDMTL.COM <http://www.shedmtl.com/><http://WWW.SHEDMTL.COM <http://www.shedmtl.com/>>____Paul Griswold <mailto:pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com> Friday, August 17, 2012 12:18 PM My main Win 7 workstation has been really acting flaky lately. Microsoft has just release Windows 8 RTM, so I was wondering if anyone had tested it out yet? I realize there are plenty of opinions on the whole Metro interface, but I'm just wondering if it's stable and if Softimage will run under it. I need to take a weekend and reformat this machine & start over anyway. Thanks, Paul-- stefan andersson - digital janitor - http://sanders3d.wordpress.com -- Andreas Byström Lighting TD - Weta Digital -- Andreas Byström Lighting TD - Weta Digital -- stefan andersson - digital janitor - http://sanders3d.wordpress.com
