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resolve and smoke on mac
Hi guys,
I am about to invest in a Resolve with full panel. Right now, it probably makes sense to go Windows (I need ProRes support so linux is out).However, I would dearly love to be able to share the workstation and storage with smoke on mac. I’m thinking Quadro4000 for GUI and two 480 in a Cubix. Has anyone been able to run smoke and resolve on the same box and how do you get away with one system requiring AJA and the other BM?
Cheers,
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PC Resolve won’t write Pro-Res and you can’t have a Aja card and a BMD card in the same machine, they conflict. Have you considered two machines? Maybe you could have a second dongle for the Mac to run resolve (not using video I/O) and use a shared project with the PC resolve that could render out pro-Res on the Mac with Smoke?
-Rob-
Robert Houllahan
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http://www.cinelab.comMAHC-PRO 6-Core 3X GTX285 20Tb SAS Wave Panel Panny 11UK SDI Plasma.
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Hi Rob,
Thanks for that…
I don’t need ProRes write, just the ability to read (mainly ProRes from Alexa). But yes, the AJA and BM cards are my biggest headache.If I went the two system route (Resolve on Win7, smoke on MAC), does anyone know how if I could share FC storage between the two (providing I have a FC switch). smoke on MAC uses DPX file structure but I’m unsure what filesystem would be readable by both.
I wish one of these products supported the other’s IO card… it would solve so many issues.
Cheers
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Unless you need to go to tape from Smoke, you really don’t need the Kona, since you can use DVI out to see the video on a second monitor, same as a SDI out. I have it connected to my Broadcast monitor DVI in.
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gustavo :
but that would be as 60Hz “computer signal ” right ?
not a SMPTE 23.98 signal ?
any screen tearing playback issue ? Audio ?
thanks
g
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Good news is that you can now write ProRes on a PC aswell.
ffmpeg has released an open source ProRes encoder and decoder that will work with *any platform.
Still very new though and not many have implemented it yet into their videosoftware.
You may also consider a multiboot system.
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It is fairly easy to share a NTFS partition on a mac and a HFS+ partition on a win 7 PC over a network, if you have a FC or 10G Ethernet connection you should not have any trouble (with network speed) using media from either machine on the other. In Resolve you would just add the folder with the DPX frames (on the smoke machine) into the media pool.
The Win-7 version of Resolve reads Pro-Res fine and as I said before if you had a second Resolve dongle for the Mac you could use the shared project feature to write Pro-Res from Resolve when needed.
-Rob-
Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.comMAHC-PRO 6-Core 3X GTX285 20Tb SAS Wave Panel Panny 11UK SDI Plasma.
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You’re talking about refresh rate I believe, it plays really good for me, as a matter fact, Scratch has the same option right? You can go second monitor as video DVI out if you don’t have a SDI out, see how that works for you, should be similar.
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Yes ,that actually why I was asking …
Even in scratch playback can have tearing if used the DVI/HDMI …especially if there is audio involved …But hey…it’s better than nothing
G
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MacPro
Cubix desktop 4
2 Red Rockets
GTX470+GTX470+GTX285
24GB RAM
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yeah, well…in a perfect world Grant Petty will fulfill his promise of Resolve being able to run on a Kona, will it ever happen, I so doubt it!
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Yeah, all this ability to write Prores on Win and Linux is fine and dandy, unless you realize, that you still ned to do two renders- first to something like DPX and then to Prores. There are no apps now, that utilize this newfound ability to write prores. And don’t forget, that as of right now, Prores writing is only command line affair, i.e just an academic exercise until Apple gets hold of whoever trying to do this:-)
On the Smoke and Resolve on the same machine business, I’d been running this for over a year. Yes, there is no need for Kona and just use DVI output and you can have 23.98 output, if you monitor supports it. The only thing is you need to keep moving DVI cables between GPUs. Resolve wants you to keep GUI plugged into GT120 and every other software wants to use GTX 295 or whatever you have. Not a deal breaker, but is a pain in the arse…
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