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Resolve Linux?
Anybody using it? We’re still on the pre-Blackmagic Linux version 5.xx, and the Mac version is probably not right for our needs. I’m looking to get us on an upgrade path and would love to hear from anyone who’s had experience with the ‘Blackmagic Design’ era Linux version of Resolve.
Primary concerns are stability, features, scalability… not necessarily in that order.
regards,
John Tissavary
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Hi, BMD have shipped a very large number of Linux seats since v6.3, significantly more than all the previous shipments under DaVinci and many are in quantities to the same company. You would know them by name and their recent Hollywood blockbuster work. We also have a number in independently owned facilities that are looking for more than the Mac OS X limited 3 GPUs who also have a Linux system, often with a Mac assistant station.
Resolve on Mac has a few codecs that are not available on Linux due to third party license issues, or availability of codecs, but the Linux systems have a big advantage in scalability and this is why they are still selling so well. The new 8 GPU systems will offer dozens of nodes in stereo in real time at 2K, even with blur or NR.
Peter
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Hi John,
The software features between the Mac and Linux version are identifical but there some differences, like on the Mac version, there are alot more Quicktime codecs supported as on the Linux platform it is very limited so if you have ProRes Quicktime clips, they will need to be converted to DPX first. If you plan to get the Resolve Control Surface grading panel as part of your upgrade, you’ll get the Resolve Mac version which you can use that as an assistant station to do these conversions. You can also use it to conform your project, injest video, render session…etc but you’ll need a shared storage for efficiencies and a database server so that both the Resolve Mac and Linux can share the projects.
The other key differences is in the GPU processing as the Resolve Mac is limited to 3GPUs whereas on the Linux platform you can scale all the way to 16GPUs, depending on the kind of work you are doing.
-chrispy
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Thanks Chris & Peter, very welcome info. I figured codec support would be the big difference, just like it always has been on Linux.
regards,
John T.
colorist | the post collective
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