Re: Evan Schechtman @RadicalMedia - The State of the NLE - recorded a few days before NAB

[Herb Sevush] "I understand the portability side of this but what do you mean by flexibility. To me flexibility means you can do anything with something, and in that case a tower is much more flexible than a MBpro. Obviously you mean something else by flexibility, can you elaborate?"

As we talked about the other night, day, or whatever, it's how you define flexibility.

We move around. We shoot and edit. Right now we have desktop based suites and laptop based mobiles.

The laptops can connect to our SAN via Gig ethernet, and they get just fine performance, but big file transfers take a while, and you can feel the performance hit. The Thunderbolt methodology allows you to have fast storage connect to our portable machines, and it also allows you to carry video monitoring with us. Right now we have a separate systems for our desktops, and separate systems for our laptops. A thunderbolt system will allow us to connect all of our systems together. The non thunderbolt computers will still be fibre, and have their Konas that tie on to the patch bay. Future thunderbolt machines, especially with the optical cable for longer runs will allow them to patch in to this architecture as well, and when we are done, we can take it all with us and attach to fast local storage on the road.

Will we be able to hook up a $1-5k tesla GPU system? No, I already can't do that, and frankly, who cares. I personally don't need at this stage in the game.

So, I guess my question to you is, how do you see this as restrictive or not flexible?

[Herb Sevush] "I haven't yet but it's tempting. Maybe if I don't buy an Ipad and a MBpro I could afford it."

Tempting for what? Just curious, and I know I've asked this before, but how much bandwidth (or in this case GPU) do you need? For your particular business, how would a tesla gpu help you?

I would trade a bit of GPU power for having more connectivity, but that's just me and it might not fit everyone's needs.

Jeremy