Attention resolve 8 beta users.

[Mike Most]

Peter, I really like what ive seen of the new conforming tools, but there seem to be two things missing that are a bit frustrating. First, the ability to play an overlay mix of the conform and the offline seems to now be gone in favor of a side by side playback only. Second, although timelines seem to be rebuilt effectively from XML files, Resolve doesn’t seem to pick up any common effects, such as basic motion effects – in particular, transforms, flips and flops, that kind of thing. I understand the attraction of a reound trip approach, but for those of us working with higher resolution material – Red files, for instance – the ability to do transforms from the higher resolution original image, and the quality of Resolve’s scaling engine, is one of the big attractions of the program. Its a big time saver to have transforms applied automatically, particularly when the information is already in the XML. The overlay playback allows a much quicker and more accurate conform check, and is something many of us use all the time.

Am I missing something, or are these things not in the current beta?

[Jose Lomeña]

I’m happy with 14fps today, and 25fps in 2 months with the new macpro… or hackintosh…

[Mikhail Puzyrev]

Sorry Jake, I won’t accuse you anymore, please forgive my dullness )).

[Vladimir Kucherov]

Paul, what GPU setup are you running on your system?

[Paul Nordin]

Vladimir, I have 2-NVidea GTX285 cards in a Cubix expansion chassis. Also in that chassis is a RedRocket card and a 4x-eSata card. The project was running off of my G-Speed PRo SAS RAID in RAID-0 configuration.

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[Paul Nordin]

Not sure if a new MacPro will impact denoise as much as more powerful Cuda cards. And I believe that Peter has said as much.

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[Vladimir Kucherov]

Aha, interesting. I am running single 285 + 120 for UI off of internal software RAID, and can’t get realtime denoising. (22fps at radius 4, 13.5fps at radius 3)

Do you have a 3rd GPU for GUI, or do you have the displays plugged into one of the 285s?

[Paul Nordin]

Vladimir,
Here is my complete config.

Cubix expansion chassis:
slot1- RedRocket
slot2- NVidea GTX285 (GPU)
slot3- 4x-eSata card
slot4- NVidea GTX285 card (GPU)

MacPro:
slot1- NVidea Quadro 4000 (GUI)
slot2- Cubix HBA
slot3- ATTO R680 Raid card
slot4- Blackmagic card

It looks like I’m getting almost 2x your performance due to the second 285

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El Mundo Bueno Studios
Film * Audio
http://www.EMBstudios.com
Emeryville, CA
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[Blase Theodore]

Hey Daren,

As you asked specifically about Alpha channel features, I can comment.

I just completed 86 greenscreen vfx shots in Resolve. In 4 hours. Yeah, I’m using Resolve for keying and compositing.

If I only had a few shots, I might have pre-graded in resolve, and used after effects and keylight to key. But I had 86 shots, which all needed motion tracked garbage mattes. It was actually better and faster to do the composites and keying in resolve. I built my keys with the panel, which was much faster to clean and preview. I used the motion tracker to build fast garbage mattes. I was previewing everything almost in realtime, and color graded the plates to match perfectly.

I always hoped to one day do compositing in Resolve, but never thought it would actually happen this soon.

[Peter Chamberlain]

Thanks Mike for your feedback. We are quite close to release but Im pleased to say we did get the offline wipe and mix modes back in. They will appear on the offline viewer while still maintaining the synced Timeline view. There are a number of additional XML features including the effects you mention which we will get to in time. We understand the clear benefit of having these effects natively in Resolve so colorists can use their source files at full res. We welcome requests for additional features for the future.
Peter