garageCube

[ilan]

Hello everyone,

We are sad to report that our initial tests with modul8 on the recent 8 core systems shipped by Apple have been problematic. Frame drops and lackluster performances.

We are of course looking into what the problem is and will make an announcement once the issues have been resolved.

Thank you for your support of modul8!

Kind regards,
The Modul8 Team

[keptnahab]

now i know what made me so sad...
bought one of the first 8core macpros, 4months ago and always had performance probs,
which i really didnt expected with that system.
...and even downgrading quicktime to 7.13 didnt help to solve this...

what is going on with apple ???
like sigma said in an other post every update seems to come along with massive loss
of options, performance and stability, is this the price we have to pay for the digital hub
philosophy ?

please try to find out this problems, i am hopefull again now, knowing im not alone...


regards,
mike

[sigmasix]

I think they're working on it, this is a kind of serious problem... But good news, the quicktime 7.4.1 update seems to correct the famous quicktime update bugs

[keptnahab]

this are really good news, i will try it as soon as possible !

im wondering if anybody else has this performance probs with the 8core macpro ?
i didnt find anything in the forums around, has anybody more information bout this ?

regards,
mike

[sigmasix]

mmm maybe the update is not that good...

check here http://www.garagecube.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2039

[keptnahab]

thats really bad !
so i ll have to make a "downgraded partition" just for m8 !




(without quartz, i guess ?)

regards,
mike

[NdR]

hi!
i have a regular modul 8 2.5 purchased on january

and now i have purchased a new macpro 8 core whit 4 ati pci-e card.... this new machine arrive in 2day....
but...
it's true???? ...DONT WORK???
i have a very important work next week... one great multiprojection for a deutche bank!... is a very very important work for me! i have purchased new machine olny for this!!!!
whit my older dual G5 all ok...but now?????? this g5 is departed yesterday !!!

please help me!!! solve quickly the problem!!!!
is necessary for me to have a fast and performance and stable system for next week... one great multyprojection whit 7 (SEVEN) 15000 ansilumen Christie projector... is a great event... but is catastrofik for me if i'm not possible to make it whit my new macpro!

sorry for my bad english!!!
i hope in your answer!!!!!
THANKS!

[Jaime / www.starloops.net]

Hi NdR,
We can help you for your project, we have great experience with multiprojection with M8.

1- To plug 7 projectors on your mac You Must use tri-heads !!
2- Yes you can have problems with the new mac 8 cores but still works.

Jaime

[NdR]

Hi NdR,
We can help you for your project, we have great experience with multiprojection with M8.

1- To plug 7 projectors on your mac You Must use tri-heads !!
2- Yes you can have problems with the new mac 8 cores but still works.

Jaime

ok... i have always used my old g5 whit 7 projector... whitout any problem..

1- what is tri-heads??
2-in other word... work fine modul8 in this machine??? is necessary last quicktime? is possible to use 7 indipendent projector (6 layer whit 720x576 photojpg compression and one from livestage via firewire) whitout problem?

[keptnahab]

hi ndr,

same to me...also bought 8core macpro and m8 for big project last year
and due to above reasons it nearly flopped completely...but since then i learned a lot !

- multiprojection is only possible with osx 10.48 and qt 7.13
- you absolutely need a raid0 to play file s bigger than 300mb
- qt and so m8 doesnt play files bigger than 1gb without stuttering
- more than three layers with more than 300mb films (each) in it ? - forget it, m8 stutters even if you just rearange them until playbayck
- watch out how to name and organize your media, the "mediabrowser" is a mess
- live input via firewire ? in deutsche bank quality ? ...hahahahahahahahah
- its better to use different smaller films to make one picture than one large one (lot of work!)
- if you have installed 4 dualhead graphic cards you have 8 outputs
but that doesnt mean they are all same speed (because of different pcie lanes)
- you can use matrox dual or triplehead2go to additionally split one or more of your outputs
- smaller resolution can look good also...

hope that helps, contact me if you have further questions, if you like also in german !

btw, right now im thinking of a solution based on the catalyst servers made by highend
for my next project, it costs about 4times more but it seems to be a rock solid stable system
and that is what we basically need in the eventbiz !
its fully dmx-programmable and its running on apple computers as well.

regards,
mike

[NdR]

hi ndr,

same to me...also bought 8core macpro and m8 for big project last year
and due to above reasons it nearly flopped completely...but since then i learned a lot !

you think that G5 is a good solution for now... in other situation is all ok for me! (6 projector!)

- multiprojection is only possible with osx 10.41 and qt 7.13

but i use leopard and QT 7.4 whitout problem! ]

- you absolutely need a raid0 to play file s bigger than 300mb

YEP... i have

- qt and so m8 doesnt play files bigger than 1gb without stuttering

max file for me is 400 MB

- more than three layers with more than 300mb films (each) in it ? - forget it, m8 stutters even if you just rearange them until playbayck
- watch out how to name and organize your media, the "mediabrowser" is a mess
- live input via firewire ? in deutsche bank quality ? ...hahahahahahahahah

the best way to import livecast in my mac? ((or other vga signal from ther computer)..

- its better to use different smaller films to make one picture than one large one (lot of work!)
- if you have installed 4 dualhead graphic cards you have 8 outputs
but that doesnt mean they are all same speed (because of different pcie lanes)
- you can use matrox dual or triplehead2go to additionally split one or more of your outputs

understand

- smaller resolution can look good also...

hope that helps, contact me if you have further questions, if you like also in german !

btw, right now im thinking of a solution based on the catalyst servers made by highend
for my next project, it costs about 4times more but it seems to be a stable system
and that is what we basically need in the eventbiz !
its fully dmx-programmable and its running on apple computers as well.

regards,
mike

[keptnahab]

this qt-problem only comes with multiprojection, look here for example:
http://www.garagecube.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2039
(search the forum !)

i think the best solution for u is that one working fine last time !

the best solution i know to import and playback livecast is for example a watchout system with a decklink capture card. most of the others have big lantency times (lip-syncronity!!)

[JJHP3]

I really need M8 to work on the new Mac Pros - really really need it to be fixed soon! Thanks, I know you are trying to fix it - just to let you know there are 8-Core users out there who rely on M8 daily...

John

[RickRobiN]

After a 7 hours multiscreen gig, no problems with mac pro 08 on the final outputs
only the preview window is doing strange things, that has to be solved
but still it is possible to do a gig safely imho It is fast as hell
cheers RR

(mac pro 2.8 16 gig ram modul8 2.5.5 quicktime 7.4.1 h264 1080 p clips sofraid 0)

[vjscan]

Hello all! I'm new in this forum but not in MD8. I've just
bought the latest version, 2.5.6, and had bad experience with that, when I upgraded to QT 7.5... I'm using a MBP 2.6GHZ with 4GB RAM and GForce 8600 512MB.
What happened was that when I was importing longer movies with PJpeg compression, MD8 simply quits itself, and when I tried to open the saved project, it says that that file was corrupted. That happened many times, and I am lost, don't know what to do to make it work fine...
Does anyone had problems like that? and how to solve it?
Thanks very much!
All the best and peace!