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Resolve & Color on same Mac
Hello, This may seem like a stupid question, but I have a Mac Quad Core Intel Mac. I have been using Color for grading but of course want to acquire the Resolve. Getting the necessary video cards will I still be able to use color?
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The Nvidia cards have much slower performance for Color than the ATI cards, you can still use it but the renders will be slower.
-Rob-
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Thank You Rob, It seems like the best answer is to actually have another Mac for Resolve and one for Color.
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I have FCS on my unibody 15″ Mac-Book Pro and Color runs with he Nvidia chipset but it is not exactly a power user system. I had a MacPro 2,1 8-core with a flashed 1G 5890 ATI card and a 12Tb disk array and Color got close to realtime for many tasks. I just sold that MacPro and I am going to the store to get a new one for the Resolve…
I would say that , yes if you have to run Color seriously a second box would be the way to go.
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You might want to do that just because the quad core mac won’t be able to handle Resolve all that well unfortunately.
The plus is, when you buy a new Mac Pro you can take one of the nice new ATI cards and put it in your Color machine to make it faster!
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You can run Color and Resolve on the same machine. I’ve seen it first hand. The only inconvenience is Color uses whatever card you’re using for the monitors so you’ll need to switch cables to the GTX or Quadro when you want the best performance. The GT 120 is painfully slow, but the GTX 285’s performance isn’t that much slower than an approved ATI.
You should trade in your quad for a supported 2009 or 2010 Mac though.
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I have to disagree with the comment earlier the thread about color running much faster with ATI cards. While I have two separate boxes ( one for color and one for resolve). I’ve spent the past 10 days running color on the system I have setup for Resolve (logic board issue on the other box). I notice no noticeable loss in speed rendering in Color with the GTX 285 if anything its a touch faster then the ATI 4870 I have in the other box. I always render in float so that could have something to do with it.
As Ilya points out the only issue you really have is that you have to switch which card your monitors are plugged into when going between resolve and color.
So all and all it works just fine. With that said pretty soon for me anyway the color system will only be for specific projects and making updates to older projects, I’m throughly sold on using Resolve ALL the time
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Same here. The GTX 285 is marginally slower than the ATI 4870 with Color. You can only have 8 bit or float with Nvidia.
But be careful: A project started on ATI will look slightly different on Nvidia!Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts
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