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  1. Thank You! Very useful information and it gives me calmness about this. will see if they can understand and take a look at the enlargement trick. Best Sergio
  2. Hi i'm not sure if this post should be here or in archviz business discussion, but i would appreciate any experience sharing My ordinary work consists on producing high resolution renders , generally around 4500 x 2800. The standard use for this is of course, normal printing, brochures, media, and up to 100 cm prints, you know the "normal" stuff which works well with the given resolution. I specify all this information on the deliverables section of my price quote. Then client ask me for a higher resolution version since printing a 2,5 x 2,2 meters image for indoor use, viewed at 80cm looks...pixelated (as expected.) Then i (try to) explain that, THAT wasn't part of the original request, and it involves higher detail, more hours and of course post producing a 12.000 px wide image is far more complex computer wise. after email number 34 and doing all kind of metaphors to explain to a complete layman i'm starting to doubt about what i'm doing, and would ask my fellow visualizers. The thing is, how do you manage this situations, or how do you charge for redoing a much higher resolution version, if technically possible. after all there is art in the process, and hours of retouching and layers of this and that to produce the final image, which in many cases may be ignored by less sensitive clients. Thank You! Sergio
  3. hi Fooch In favor of the MPB, i have to say that at this moment is saving my B#%$t (will not hurt his feelings ), rendering some extra frames i need for a project with deadline in a few hours , but i agree that is not optimal for heavy work, and they are beautifully designed objects. I never was never able to get an adobe media encoder compression in h264 as light-good quality as in compressor, and at this time, to lazy to research. best S.
  4. To tell you the truth, i like the MPB screen and feeling when it comes to post. I´m a musician too so i use it for that matters. I never tried Vegas but i´m curious. Do they have a trial version? I Gave up Final cut since their horrible iphonish mutation on X, so i do editing in premiere, which is very nice and reliable. What i like and unfortunately is not available in PC is Compressor, or been too lazy to find an alternative. It gives me excellent compression ratios vs quality. At least in the mac side of the moon, the 840 pro is amazing fast. I haven´t managed to make ACHI drivers work on windows 7, not a technical user, but it seems to be all good so far.
  5. Thank You Chris I totally agree. what problems are you having? I finally decided to repair-upgrade by myself couldn´t be happier saving $3000, spending just $580 got a samsung 512 GB 840 pro ssd and 16 GB memory upgrade, did the replacement in 10 minutes. (there is a lot of great HD videos explaining how to do it ) The machine now flies just like the retina. Couldn`t recommend it more. (Mac starts in 8 seconds, apps launches in 2 seconds) I have a custom built i3930K, and thats where i do 90% of my work, the macbook is my Video Post tool and now i will do some 3D in bootcamp, while i´m rendering stuff in the big one. Best! Sergio http://www.rendertone.com
  6. it makes sense, i agree. may be in the osx the prettiness is not annoying, i mean, it does look spectacular with included apple stuff. May be i'll consider another options like patiently get my 2011 MBP repaired and get back in track. i have the feeling of "ipadization" of this macs, they used to be more graphic professional oriented machines. Best S
  7. Thanks Dimitri for your great and detailed explanation. I haven't been able to find specific 3dsMax users here or there commenting about this, other than generic reviews. May be is better to wait until drivers and the product evolves a bit. Cheers Sergio
  8. Hi there i need some advice, close to a deadline:) My 2011 Macbook pro died and i need to decide whether upgrade it adding 16 GB memory and a new SSD, plus all the hassle, or invest (a lot ) of money in the new MPB retina display. Because i lost the original dvd install dvds, and other issues, it's becoming a nightmare to recover it quickly as i need. i currently work on a PC with 16GB and fast i7 3930K processor, but i always use a Mac for post production, photoshop and other tasks. i would like to be able to run 3dsmax on bootcamp and win7 and have some mobility. I've heard some big complaints about heat issues and not optimal display performance on windows 7 , since most applications doesn't support retina yet, so i'm not sure about risking the big $$$ if the product is not yet mature on that side. any experiences? thanks so much. Sergio
  9. Buena onda muchachos!!! Cool Guys. Saludos de otro compatriota aquì. Sergio
  10. Hola David, buena onda. Jaja, si , te respondì en inglés por la misma razón que Francisco. Exacto, la misma estructura en cada nodo. yo tenìa C:MAPS.....y sub carpetas, o E:MAPS en otro computador, lo importante es que era idéntica y 3dsMax en cada path lo tiene correcto. con Vice Versa, tu comparas por ejemplo Los nombres de tus equipos y ruta : Pepito/C:MAPAS con Juanito/C:MAPAS con perico/E:MAPAS si en perico tienes tus archivos en otra unidad E: entonces lo que hace es copiar los mapas adicionales de Pepito en el Resto, asì quedan idénticos. Genial compartir por este foro. saludos amigo.
  11. Hi David I'm Chilean too, living in NY. I got sick of that kind of issues, and other problems with network maps, permissions, and the random error here and there that would ruin entire shots. My solution was brute but worked for me at least. I had a Local MAPS folder on each node (i had subfolders there too, HDRI, PROXIES, IES, WOODS, whatever organization). I synchronized them with a little program called VICE VERSA PRO, so any time i changed or add some new maps, this program mirrors the whole thing to the nodes. It aslo tells you exactly what file is different or missing when compares folders. You only need each 3dsmax to have the same external paths list for each node. I know is very archaic, but as each computer reads its own files, there were no errors, or sometimes network lags reading the maps. Also this works nice if you just have few nodes, not a render farm of course. buena suerte compadre con tus renders. saludos a Conce. Sergio
  12. That´s hilarius. UFPC! There´s a whole category of flying people, buildings, trees. sometimes an ass of some 3d person in front of the camera. i had a tree flying 30 m above the ground. The murphy law thing was that i discovered it once i delivered the final animation to the client. Fortunately wasn´t too notorious...i guess they never noticed it.
  13. Hehe, thanks for your advice. i was trying to point out errors in renders that can be funny. (like the upside down legs) My client wanted massive people, since this a project for multitudes in china. Cheers!
  14. May be not to frequently in the architectural viz realm, but it happens. cheers. valenzulu.
  15. Apparently, they don´t build i7 3930k based computers...to my understanding it´s faster and cheaper than i7 990x...
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