{"id":29,"date":"2008-02-26T22:57:24","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T05:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/2008\/02\/26\/things-are-busy-news-is-slow\/"},"modified":"2010-07-29T23:13:52","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T06:13:52","slug":"things-are-busy-news-is-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/2008\/02\/26\/things-are-busy-news-is-slow\/","title":{"rendered":"Things are Busy, News is Slow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing overhelmingly interesting has been released recently.\u00c2\u00a0 Everyone must be saving up the good news for NAB or something.\u00c2\u00a0 I have been keeping busy, so\u00c2\u00a0I haven&#8217;t had time to run any thorough set of benchmarks on my new system.\u00c2\u00a0 After much frusteration and delay, I did successfully get <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_XP_Professional_x64_Edition\" target=\"_blank\">Windows XP Pro 64-bit <\/a>edition installed though.\u00c2\u00a0 I have never had more trouble with an OS install before, between Raid drivers and <a href=\"http:\/\/h20000.www2.hp.com\/bizsupport\/TechSupport\/Document.jsp?lang=en&amp;cc=us&amp;taskId=110&amp;prodSeriesId=1844968&amp;prodTypeId=12454&amp;prodSeriesId=1844968&amp;objectID=c01071148\" target=\"_blank\">SATA Optical <\/a>drive booting issues it took like two weeks to get it right.\u00c2\u00a0 Now when I get all eight threads rendering in AE CS3, the lights dim and my UPS starts beeping.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know whether to be thrilled at the computing power or disappointed at my electrical power, or both really.\u00c2\u00a0 Once I get some time I will get a new UPS and max out the system for a while.\u00c2\u00a0 It the mean time, Company of Heros gets great frame-rates.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0I have also been playing with an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/page\/qfx_4000sdi.html\" target=\"_blank\">NVidia QuadroFX 5600 SDI <\/a>at work, primarily with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speedgrade.com\/hd\/\" target=\"_blank\">SpeedgradeHD<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Performance-wise our colorist is impressed, but the stability and reliability is not there yet, especially with AVI files or any form of compression.\u00c2\u00a0 I am also currently \u00c2\u00a0working on my first full scale 35mm to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gamma_correction\" target=\"_blank\">HDCam-SR Log RGB <\/a>workflow production.\u00c2\u00a0 So besides eating up Terabytes of storage space for full tape captures, I am learning a few\u00c2\u00a0tips and tricks that I will eventually share once I figure out all the details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing overhelmingly interesting has been released recently.\u00c2\u00a0 Everyone must be saving up the good news for NAB or something.\u00c2\u00a0 I have been keeping busy, so\u00c2\u00a0I haven&#8217;t had time to run any thorough set of benchmarks on my new system.\u00c2\u00a0 After much frusteration and delay, I did successfully get Windows XP Pro 64-bit edition installed though.\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[24,37,32,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}