Ideal parts for MBP 17″ and Davinci

[Margus Voll]

try make files to prorez. mbp wil not be super realtime machine any way.

some say imac is good for them but full power you get on big desktop.

ok you could swap your drive to fast ssd but gpu you just can not change.

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[Ryan Mast]

Your graphics card is likely your bottleneck — not much you can do about that.

I second Margus’ recommendation to transcode to ProRes (or DNxHD). Working directly from the H264 files eats the CPU and is a bit flakier than working from ProRes etc, in my experience.

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[Gergo Szabo]

I was thinking about, Is it worth to buy more RAM to a notebook (now 8 Gigs). The other upgrade about what I think is to switch from 5400 rpm hard drive to 7200. The SSD is too expensive. 256 Gb is not enough 512 Gb has a terrible price.

Anybody tried the Lacie Little Big Disk 1TB? Does it worth the price? Or the same like an eSata drive.

Thanks
Gary

[Jamie Allan]

Disk speed and RAM are not your problem.

As others have pointed out, you have no GPU acceleration on your machine. Macbookpros and iMacs should only be considered professionally for onset and conform work, they will not give you anywhere near the potential performance levels of Resolve.

The only saving grace will be when powered thunderbolt expansion chassis are available that allows you to run the GPUs required for proper performance. Even then the motherboard will be a bottleneck for the amount of processing that can be computed.

Jamie Allan
Post Production Consultant
DaVinci Specialist (Linux/Mac)
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[Christopher Kechichian]

I have a question here i have the 15″ MBP with the same specs as Gergo’s mac, but i am getting flickering and jittering from the viewer and from the exported media! i tried a big variety of videos (HDSLR and PAL), all type of compressions (Pro Res 422, Pro Res 444, H264 ……) litterally all types of formats and i still got these problems. I updated my CUDA driver to the latest version, jittering went away but flickering is always there! any advice? please i need help with this !
thanks