ah, cool. Ok thanks Deke. I noticed that there is a new MacPro on the desk giving the NAB demo. Is that working well for the GPU support?
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Deke Kincaid <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Gary > > At the moment the background render nodes are just on your local machine > so you can saturate your available resources (frame per core). No external > machine support yet as far as I know. > > -deke > > On Tuesday, April 8, 2014, Gary Jaeger <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Interesting. I will be curious to hear how those can be managed to >> coexist with, say, our rush render farm so that they aren't running into >> each other. >> >> On Apr 8, 2014, at 1:51 PM, Deke Kincaid <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Not really an actual render farm per say but what we do is launch a bunch >> of background render nodes which lie in wait. When you open a timeline or >> modify a comp they all start rendering frames ahead in the comp to disk >> wherever the write nodes are pointing to. So it's like having an on demand >> render farm for your interactive session. >> >> -deke >> >> On Tuesday, April 8, 2014, Gary Jaeger <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> And was I imagining things or did the mention some kind of integrated >> render farm solution? >> >> On Apr 8, 2014, at 12:54 PM, Chris Noellert <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Strikes me that you're seeing a pyramid effect of products where the apex >> is Nuke Studio which combines all the best pieces for the current >> editorial/comp packages. Arguably you have Nuke and Heiro player on the >> bottom row, followed by NukeX and Heiro on the next row and toped by >> NukeStudio. This is a rather similar sort of set up that Autodesk had/has >> and tends to be one that facility owners can quickly grasp. The more >> likely you are to have a client standing over your shoulder the higher the >> cost of the product and the more all inclusive it becomes. >> >> From the worker-bee perspective, it's totally based on need. Most >> compositors aren't going to need a full Heiro license and likewise most >> effects editorial folks won't need a full Nuke license. From my >> perspective Nuke Studio essentially allows one to finish a show/commercial >> in the same env as your compositors and using conventions that just plug >> into that environment. >> >> Very clever product. Very clever. >> >> Best, >> Chris >> >> >> On Apr 8, 2014, at 12:41 PM, Doug Wilkinson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> My INITIAL reaction is that the announcement they made was an upgraded >> version of Hiero, with the ability to run nukeX as an integrated engine. >> This is what we thought, based on face to face foundry meetings, Hiero was >> becoming, not nuke. I think this is a great announcement, don't get me >> wrong! I'm just very confused by this announcement and how The Foundry >> chose to label and market this product. >> >> Some other questions that I look forward to being answered, in time : >> Why can't we use nuke as the engine, why only nukeX? (surely only some of >> us need the functionality of nukeX in this scenario) >> What features will be rolled into Hiero? >> What would be the pricing for current customers on maintenance that own >> both Hiero and NukeX? >> >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 7:22 AM, Gary Jaeger <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> So that seems to overlap quite a bit with Hiero. Is Hiero to be replaced >> by Nuke Studio? >> >> On Apr 7, 2014, at 8:28 PM, Deke Kincaid <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> We have the video up here: >> >> >> Gary Jaeger // Core Studio >> 249 Princeton Avenue >> Half Moon Bay, CA 94019 >> 650 728 7060 >> http://corestudio.com >> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> >> > > -- > -- > Deke Kincaid > Creative Specialist > The Foundry > Skype: dekekincaid > Tel: (310) 399 4555 - Mobile: (310) 883 4313 > Web: www.thefoundry.co.uk > Email: [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > Nuke-users mailing list > [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ > http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users > -- Gary Jaeger // Core Studio 249 Princeton Avenue Half Moon Bay, CA 94019 650 728 7060 http://corestudio.com
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