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  • Macbook Pro battles with Resolve

    Posted by Rignold Haywood on August 5, 2015 at 7:46 am


    My Macbook Pro battles to playback video and audio. I’ve tried various types of media from different cameras(EX3, C300, F55 etc). I’m hoping that it’s an issue that will be addressed as all my other edit applications have no problems with the exact same media.
    I have the latest CUDA drivers and the latest Blackmagic Video Playback utility installed.

    Any comments or ideas would be most wewlcome.

    Thanks

    Gabe Strong replied 10 years, 9 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Robert Ober

    August 5, 2015 at 5:18 pm

    [Rignold Haywood] “My Macbook Pro battles to playback video and audio. I’ve tried various types of media from different cameras(EX3, C300, F55 etc). I’m hoping that it’s an issue that will be addressed as all my other edit applications have no problems with the exact same media.
    I have the latest CUDA drivers and the latest Blackmagic Video Playback utility installed.

    Any comments or ideas would be most wewlcome.”

    With the understanding that your MBP is underpowered for Resolve, try Resolve 12 BETA 2. The playback is greatly improved.

    Resolve does a lot more math than other applications.

    Good Fortune,
    Robert

    Robert A. Ober
    IT Consultant, Vidcaster, & Freelancer
    http://www.infohou.com
    Houston, TX

  • Dwaine Maggart

    August 5, 2015 at 6:28 pm

    Have a read through Chapter 5 of the Resolve 12 Colorist manual:
    Improving Performance, Proxies, and the Render Cache

    There are multiple suggestions for improving performance on under-powered systems.

    https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/DaVinciResolve/DaVinci_Resolve_12_Beta_Reference_Manual.pdf

    Dwaine Maggart
    Blackmagic Design DaVinci Support

  • Rignold Haywood

    August 5, 2015 at 6:54 pm

    Thanks for the info guys, most helpful. I know my MBP is a tad underpowered but I really want to give AVID the heave ho. Might buy a new baby with all the subscription money I’ll save!

  • Gabe Strong

    August 6, 2015 at 7:48 am

    Yup, you are going to have problems. Your graphics card has less than the minimum amount of RAM than Resolve 12 says it needs…..

    Gabe Strong
    G-Force Productions
    http://www.gforcevideo.com

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