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Delivery is slipping for mac resolve
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Well I know probably a lot of you guys are going to beat me up.
But probably if Black Magic went for the PC Windows option, the Resolve would be on studios today.
While i7 are lurking in PCs from about a year, apple just started to ship them.
Not to mention that you can have up to 24 cores with the new Xeons.
Don´t have to wait for Steve Jobs to pull out the new Macs.
Really don´t know what’s up that now seems that developers are aiming hard for the Mac platform.
I am trying to acquire the Resolve for Mac since it first appeared at BlackMagic’s web site like it was on the market after the NAB.
Last news I recieved from Black Magic is that they still don´t have a release date.
I assure that if Black Magic went for a Windows option also for that price or even Linux, a lot of us would be using the Resolve right now in our studios.
But it is only my humble opinion.
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Only thing I’m concerned of is the price of the new beast of a Mac Pro. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a tad more expensive.
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There’s been rumors that the new macs might have fibre connections built in – something intel and apple have been reported to be developing. I’m sure that won’t be cheap either.
There’s always hackintosh – maybe I’ll build a $1500 hackintosh beast and test Resolve on it – if it doesn’t work I still have a new render/encoding machine!
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You’ll probably end up spending $6000-7000 U.S. for a new decked out Mac Pro. I was at a local computer store in LA looking at parts and realized how incredibly cheap it is to build a Windows PC right now. In general I don’t like Windows or Linux, but as dedicated turnkey systems they rock.
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Absolutely. If you build a PC box using quality components (even then it’s cheap), it can be a great machine. I just build one for a client, it’s fast, powerful, as quiet as my Mac Pro, and has the kind of expansion room you’d only dream about on a mac. Of course, installing OSX on such a thing has questionable legal standing, and questionable driver support, but it might still be worth a try!
The GPU choices and prices alone are a dream on the PC side of things.
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I agree. In fact I started using Dell workstation at first. But then found a good PC supplier, that builds the PC to our specs.
On our 3D and VFX area we build 3 PC with the QuadCore I7 having each machine 8 cores with just one processor, 12Gigs RAM, Caldigit´s VR, Nvidia Quadro FX and Windows 7. At firs we tried to stick to the old faithful xp64, but all new apps are coming to 7. They are fast. We improved our render time by nearly 80% having with three machines 32 processors.
If you only use the system for one purpose it is rock solid.
I still think that Black Magic since the video output boards are the same for MAC and PC, should think of a Windows Resolve option.
Creating something that does not exist to exist.
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One thing about a slipping delivery date…. I’d rather they deliver later and give us a more solid product than hand over something that “mostly” works. Bringing this product to a brand new platform, the Mac, and having it all work correctly right out of the gate definitely takes time to get it right.
Heck Apple didn’t even deliver a solid .0 version of FCP until 7.0.
The last thing DaVinci needs is to release the software too early and then everyone complaining that it doesn’t work right. Then Grant will have to send us all an email telling us we’re holding the mouse wrong and if we hold it correctly, the software will work…… 🙂
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I am officially excited! Very very excited.
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Sadly no….
It seems as though Apple will not add USB 3.0 or Fibre to the new machine…FROM THE APPLE SITE…
“Connections and audioFour FireWire 800 ports (two on front panel, two on back panel)
Five USB 2.0 ports (two on front panel, three on back panel)
Two USB 2.0 ports on included keyboard
Front-panel headphone minijack and internal speaker
Optical digital audio input and output TOSLINK ports
Analog stereo line-level input and output minijacks
Multichannel audio through Mini DisplayPort” -
Well, I’ve been watching Siggraph videos.
Interesting specially the VFX TV interview with the Nvidia guys.
I think they are all betting for the wrong platform. MAC.
While you can build a rock solid PC app oriented with two Xeons double six core. This means you can have a workstation with 24 cores. And can use the new Nvidia boards 5000 and 6000 Quadro Series with CUDA. The biggest Quadro board you will be able to use on a MAC is the Quadro 4800 and seems they don´t even have the SDI option.
Just for what? A nice interface OS? “No viruses”…
Well don´t agree with this… The Win7 workstations we have here at the studio are rock solid, and we banned the virus problem by not inserting USB memories sticks and having a central unit that scans for viruses external HDD.
So what else gives OSX? What are the true advantages of having a “super MAC” that never arrives and when it does it does not have even USB 3.0
I think that DaVinci’s Resolve will sell equal if it was Win7 64 based as Scratch, that runs very smoothly taking advantage of the CUDA technology.
Seems to me bad aiming for a solid platform with cutting edge technology.
At the end, the Resolve is running now in a PC with Linux not a MAC.
I think if Black Magic aimed at the same time at the OSX and Win7 platform, the Win7 version will be right now in a lot of studios. Specially for $990 and the HD link for another 1k.
The only thing is that the MAC “looks more beautiful than a PC”.
The MACS we have here are for opening FC projects that are from our clients, and also for them to surf the web. Just because they are more sight pleasant.
I know I will be punch by MAC lovers. But at the end it is my personal opinion.
Creating something that does not exist to exist.
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