Article testing MacPro tube with Resolve

[Chris Kenny]

[Herb Sevush] “Yes, I was very impressed that this test was conducted with the 6 Core twin 500D GPU model. Would love to know what kind of difference the 700s would have with the Red footage.”

Not much right now. Red doesn’t support GPU-accellerated decoding in their SDK yet, so it’s not available to third-party apps like Resolve. It’s pretty awkward to work with 5K Epic material (let alone 6K Dragon footage) in Resolve right now without a Rocket — you’ll drop below real-time at anything more than quarter res, even with a 12c/D700 machine.

4K raw F55 footage, on the other hand, plays back like butter on a 12c/D700 system, with a full-res high-quality decode, which is a nice illustration of what’s possible. It’s kind of nuts that these sort of workflow problems continue to plague Red after all these years.

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[Jeremy Garchow]

[Chris Kenny] “4K raw F55 footage, on the other hand, plays back like butter on a 12c/D700 system,”

What about an 8 core D700? 🙂

I am so f8cking confused on which machine to get.