When it comes to the hardware,
there's a lot of people who think if you need heavy lifting done,
if you need fast processing times, if you need fast upload speeds,
if you are going to render large files,
graphic intensive files that you need a workstation.
One of the reasons
we sponsored you with the AERO 17 HDR was to prove that wrong.
How is that experience,working on this AERO 17 HDR versus a workstation?
Well, you know it's funny that you mentioned that
because like a few years ago,I'd say that a workstation was definitely a must.
I mean sure there were workstations or
there were mobile workstations back in the day
but they were about this thick if you remember,
the industry fondly would call them "bricks"
because they were kind of like bricks.
Whereas I was extremely surprised when you guys showed me the AERO 17,
and I looked at the horsepower under the hood, it was nice and sturdy,
but at the same time, I could carry it everywhere.
I'm not breaking my back.
But all things considered, the AERO 17,
when it comes to the power, speed, and the operating system,
the graphics card and everything in between,
it's practically a workstation
it's practically a PC that's geared towards making the types of work
that you would do in a studio and it's very much capable of doing that.
So how much multitasking do you do on it?
Do you just run one program at a time?
Are you running multiple programs and how's the performance?
Oh, no. Definitely not one program at a time like at one given point
I can be using Nuke, but I also have Maya running in the background,
because I'm importing and exporting,
sending stuff between Maya and it and then every now and then
I also have Premiere open,because I'm also exporting something
from premiere and bringing it to Nuke.
So the answer is no,
it's definitely multi-tasking at it's best, and not just on simple software.
They're fairly heavy software to use and because it has some the version
that I have 64 days of rambling definite able to do that.For that I'm very happy.
When you were editing you expected to have to set proxies
and on the AERO 17 HDR, you didn't?
That's correct.
When I gave the footage to my editor, he had to,
I forgot what he was working with, I don't want to be too specific.
He was using a different computer,
he had to make proxies for a lot of the 4K footage
and when I had it when I grabbed it, actually not just that
but when I was also doing my micro short which was also shot 4K,
it was kind of a pain trying to edit it because it would like,
every single point my feedback wasn't live.
But when I finally opened those on the AERO 17,
everything is buttery-smooth, didn't have to do proxies.
In fact, when I opened my editor's files from his previous device,
I had to delete the proxies
because the proxies were almost just making me at lag further,
it was not necessary, and right now as you can see.
I've got my timeline right here,
and right now I'm just like importing them straight out
as they are without even bothering to recompress them or make proxies
I can show you,
I can click press
and everything's running in real-time.
Everything's running in real-time as expected, and there's absolutely no lag,
so yeah call me a happy camper.
That's gotta feel really satisfying.
How much time does that save you?
Like, in real world terms, when you're working on creative projects,
Time is everything.
It's not even about saving time,
it's also saving yourself the frustration of having to just leave your desk,
because you're buffering and stucking.
When you're editing, sometimes if you're editing,
like an action packed sequence,every frame, every second counts,
and if you're not able to see live feedback, it's detrimental to your process.
Whereas here I know exactly where I need to cut down to the micro level,
because it plays pretty smoothly.
I know that, okay, when she hits this exact portion,
it's fairly easy to kind of go back and forth and be able to see where you're at,
where you edit for scene A and that goes to scene B, get the idea.
Instead of having to guess where that is
I can see the live feedback without any issues, for me that was just great.
What was the biggest surprise you had in using the AERO 17 HDR?
I don't think there was just one single surprise.
I think it was a myriad of surprises.
I think one of the things that I ended up doing was,
I was doing a little promo for one of our current projects,
and I needed a pretty large image, so I was running my Arnold at the time,
when they just released their new version of Arnold,
about 3 months ago if I'm not mistaken but anyhow,
I needed something big because I knew I wanted to print it as a poster
You know I knew I wanted to just do a single frame
I am just gonna do a 6K render on a single frame,
even if it takes a few hours, I'll be fine.
So I click render, I stepped away, and it's done 30 minutes later, and I'm like,
it's done in 30 minutes? That's pretty surprising,
because when you're working on or when you're rendering something fairly large,
even on an HD frame, sometimes that could be 30 minutes.
So the fact that it's done in 30 minutes on a 60 frame was fairly surprising for me.
You know like rendering is dependent on many different variables,
in this case, it was a medium-sized scene with a fair amount of lights,
so it was still fairly complex to a degree.
But again just the fact
that I was able to render a 60 frame in 30 so minutes was kind of cool.
How has working with AERO 17 HDR helped make this project happen
or move forward and/or flow?
The first thing that I'm going to say is,
for most of Carmina,
I've kind of kept most of our files local on the computer,
so meaning I can practically do it wherever I want to.
So if you remember a few weeks ago I was on the plane,
I did some editing there,
I think, if I'm not mistaken,
the battery lasted for about four hours,
and I did something pretty heavy like that on the plane.
I think it's really just the general idea,
being able to do it wherever I need to, not just be tied to my desk.
On my desk, I like having my second monitor,
but I also have a second monitor that I carry
if I wanted to do work elsewhere, I can do it in a garden for all I care for 4 hours.
Flexibilities. What's great about it,
the flexibility and the power combined, is just invaluable.