Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #52255
From: elaine montoya | motion.tv <lists@motion.tv>
Subject: Re: [AE] (OT) New Mac Pro - Who's getting it?
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 20:34:17 -0700
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
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EC2 is one of the many services offered through Amazon Web Services. (aws.amazon.com) EC2 stands for Elastic Compute Cloud - and is basically a server. Do with it as you please. Using features like Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing, this server can easily grow to multiple serves when needed. So unless you’re writing a custom app for video, or wanting to use it for web related services, it may not be of much use to you.

Having said that, AWS does offer an array of other services. The one that is most applicable to those of us working in video is Amazon Elastic Transcoder <http://aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder/ >. Take a look at Digital Media on AWS < http://aws.amazon.com/digital-media/ > 

The concept behind AWS is that you can easily scale up or down - and you pay for what you use.

HTH, 

elaine
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motion.tv


On Dec 20, 2013, at 3:30 PM, Brian Higgins <brian.higgins@flavor.tv> wrote:

Zync is at zyncrender.com.  If you call them, ask for Todd Prives (formerly of Genarts.)   Amazon Ec2 is a more roll-your-own thing that someone else might have info on.

-bH


On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Greg Balint <delrazoraelist@gmail.com> wrote:

Can someone link me to info about zync and ec2? I might be able to make good use of them.

///Greg Balint
//Art Director / Motion Graphics Designer
/321.514.4839
delRAZOR.com/
   

On Dec 20, 2013 5:14 PM, "Chris Zwar" <chris@chriszwar.com> wrote:
Some more information on price breakdowns:


On 21/12/2013, at 8:28 AM, Robert Houghton <gfxguy74@gmail.com> wrote:

I'll have to keep an eye open for your next batch o sales then if you're having one this year Tim. It makes ROI much easier when the I is smaller :)

    -Rob

On 12/20/13 1:15 PM, Tim Sassoon wrote:
IMHO they'll all have to figure out a way of allowing it for $$$, or just lose the business. Bye-bye. I want to buy software by the hour at most; I'd prefer by the minute. I'll use Zync to get Maya/Vray/Arnold/MR and Nuke licenses. There are two other points to this - provisioning remote contractors with the exact installation needed, scripts, fonts, plug-ins, whatever, and audit trail and actualization - eventually being able to move clients to time and materials billing.

One thing I like about the new Mac Pro - the size. Older Mac Pros I had to find someone local to buy them, and iMacs are a bitch to ship. Mac Mini's are the best - just drop them into a Priority Mail flat rate box and they're gone. Too bad they don't have a better graphics board. I try to sell all machines at 2 years regardless, and I'll sell extra machines after a big show is over. Looking forward to not having to do that in the future.


Tim Sassoon
SFD
Venice, CA



On Dec 20, 2013, at 12:57 PM, Dann Stubbs <dann@darkskydigital.com> wrote:

as well as - read your EULA - as of C4D R15 they explicitly ban using cloud rendering as breaking their EULA - others may be putting these clause's in as well...   EC2 is a third party cloud explicitly stated as a no-go.






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brian higgins | creative director
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