• DaVinci Resolve

  constant crashes with Resolve 11, new Mac Pro, and 4K

  Posted by Sean Sartori on September 9, 2014 at 9:55 pm

  Hi,

  I am stalled on a project because of constant crashes with Resolve. Total freeze-ups, where I have to do a hard shutdown of the machine. It happens every time I switch the timeline to 4K, or attempt a 4K render.

  We have the full version of Resolve 11, on a new Mac Pro with AMD graphics cards. We are running 10.9.2, after a rollback because of problems in 10.9.3. The source media is Red epic 4k.

  Things operate fine, I’m working in 2k, until I do anything in 4K. Even setting up a render with the timeline at 2K, and selecting “render at source resolution” causes a total freeze.

  Any ideas? I disabled the film convert plugin, in case that was causing it, but no go. The film has temporal noise reduction throughout, but that has never been a problem before?

  Thank in advance!

  Tom Sefton replied 11 years, 3 months ago 5 Members · 6 Replies
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  Rohit Gupta

  September 10, 2014 at 12:42 am

  Do you have the D700 GPU?
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  Joseph Owens

  September 10, 2014 at 4:58 pm

  [Sean Sartori] “The film has temporal noise reduction throughout, but that has never been a problem before?”

  It is a biggie, though. Obviously, in 4K, 4x the previous load, and with temporal NR enabled, it would be 8 or 16x depending on how many frames you need to have loaded at any one time.

  Most of the freeze-up and exit-to-desktop crashes I have had mostly seem to lead back to VRAM.

  jPo

  “I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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  Sean Sartori

  September 10, 2014 at 11:42 pm

  yes, two AMD FirePro D700’s
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  Sean Sartori

  September 10, 2014 at 11:48 pm

  Yes it could be connected to noise reduction, or it could be that the project is corrupted, as I brought it from Resolve 10. Its suspicious though, that all crashes are related to 4K.

  I needed to export some 4K stills, and the workaround was to create a new project, bring in just those shots, and work in a 4K timeline. Even then, if I brought in a grade that had NR enabled, instant freeze. If i removed the NR and brought the grade over, all was fine.

  So this begs the question, is it not possible to do ANYTHING in 4K with NR? I thought this new mac pro was a racecar and all….
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  Peter Chamberlain

  September 11, 2014 at 5:01 pm

  Make sure your temporal NR is not on a timeline node but on clip nodes.
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  Tom Sefton

  January 29, 2015 at 11:30 am

  Hi Sean

  We are having similar issues and need to get a project out. Did you manage to sort your issues with resolve when rendering a 4K red timeline and the new mac pro???

  Thanks!

  Tom

  Please feel to email me direct at tom at pollenstudio dot co dot uk

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