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Macbook Air limit
Hello all,
I found the limit for using Resolve 15 on a MB Air.
A few display buttons don’t appear and Resolve crashes after getting past 40 minutes in an HD timeline to playback or export. Works OK up to that point.
Best,
RobertRobert Withers
Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City
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5 Replies
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There are probably other limits you haven’t discovered yet.
The best thing to do before installing Resolve on any computer is to read the latest DaVinci Resolve Configuration Guide (a Google search will turn it up); they haven’t yet updated it for version 16, but the version 15 guide gives a pretty good idea of what to shoot for. The MacBook Air isn’t even on their list, although they did test a maxed-out 2017 Macbook and said it would work for editing in 1080p timelines. Even many MacBook Pros can have trouble with Resolve.
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Agreed, Brad.
That would probably be best before _buying_ a computer too.I read the requirements on the bmd site and they were a little vague. Then I read in a forum that somebody didn’t expect to run Resolve on an Imac. B&H doesn’t even sell the graphics cards that bmd asks for with their MB Pros.
I’m having to search harder. Or go back to Premiere.
Thanks,
RobertRobert Withers
Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City
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Have you tried Final Cut Pro X? That’s optimized to run on Macs and ultimately could be the cheapest NLE for Mac users since you can get by with a lower-spec Mac than you can with even the free version of Resolve. Its metadata-based workflow and the magnetic timeline take some getting used to if you’re coming from a traditional track-based NLE, but it’s a pretty fantastic editor and very efficient. It doesn’t come anywhere near close to matching Resolve as a color grading tool, but the built-in color correction tools are quite good and can be augmented with a plugin like Color Finale, or you can export an XML to Resolve and do coloring there (but probably not on your MacBook Air!).
Resolve relies a lot more heavily on the GPU than other NLEs do (this is explained in the Configuration Guide), which is why it doesn’t run so well on lower-spec machines.
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Which MacBook Air do you have?
Could you post a log from the Help menu after you restart after the crash?
Also, can you please make sure you are running the latest version of Resolve, i.e. Resolve 16.1.2.
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Hi Brad,
There is no reason Resolve should run slower than any other NLEs. Can you mention the specific use case, and have you tried with 16.1.2?
Regards,
Rohit
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