New DaVinci Resolve V8 + DaVinci Resolve LIte!!!

[Ola Haldor voll]

I just logged on to their website. First of all – well done on the design.

Second: WOW! DaVinci keeps growing.

[Paul Jay]

Wow!!!!
Any news on audio support.
As in playback from original source.

[Earthworm]

Any word if Blackmagic will allow other breakout cards with the new Resolve (Matrox/AJA)?

[Adam Claude jones]

This sounds relay great. But what caught my eye was Davinci Lite!
From the BM site:
“The free DaVinci Resolve Lite includes the same high quality processing as the full DaVinci Resolve, however it limits projects to SD and HD resolutions, two color correction nodes, a single processing GPU and a single RED rocket card. Stereoscopic 3D features, 2K, noise reduction, power mastering, remote grading and sharing projects with an external database server are features only offered in the full DaVinci Resolve and are not included in this free DaVinci Resolve Lite edition”

Well, at the moment I never work on anything higher than 1080p, I can not even see when I will need stereoscopic 3D and as I work alone I never need sharing projects with an external database server. So it sounds great so far. But not being a Davinci user I’m not sure what I’m missing with the other features.

I’m thinking a single processing GPU is more than enough for 1080p.(?)

About noise reduction, there are plenty of plug-ins out there like Neatvideo which do a great job(unless I’m mistaking with what this feature is?)

How much limitation is it to have only 2 color correction nodes? What does it actually mean in Resolve?

And what is power mastering and remote grading?

I know what you are thinking. BM is not in the business of giving software for free. This is not meant as a main grading station. Just as a support on location or something. But my line of thought is, if Lite covers my needs for now, which as I said does not involve steroscopic or higher than 1080p, I can start using it now, learn the program and use the money I save to buy a control board like the tangent. Then when my needs rise, I can buy full resolve and I will already have experience and know the software.

Thanks.

[Adam Claude jones]

[Tony Alznauer ]“Any word if Blackmagic will allow other breakout cards with the new Resolve (Matrox/AJA)?”

Well, that I honestly don’t see them doing and would be quite dumb if you ask me. They are a business, not a charity fund. They didn’t buy Davinci and dropped the price of it from the hundreds or thousands of dollars to under a thousand to let you use other company’s hardware. They didn’t do that as a favor to us. They have to make a profit somewhere. I think what they did is what Apple does. Offer great software which costs a fortune elsewhere but you need to buy their hardware to use it. Quite fair if you ask me.

[Peter Berg]

I agree with what you say… but when they first announced Resolve, they did say they would be adding support for other grading panels and capture cards in the future. Why would they even say that? Maybe they changed their minds.. or are just spending the resources on making the software better (which is fine with me)

[Margus Voll]

HI.

We do not know yet how is Cl gpu speeds. At the moment speed is really big player when using resolve.
System itself will also play a roll here. Lets say you have 2 nodes and imac with one drive.

This will limit you in time so big that you will want to use full version on mac pro.
Maybe thunderbolt imac would be better for that but still.

And yes monitoring options. External scopes and grade 1 monitoring.
On lite you can estimate what is going on. On full you have the possibility to actually see it
and in real time.

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Margus

https://iconstudios.eu

[Adam Claude jones]

No, No. Not thinking of using it on Imac. I already have a 8-core Mac Pro with 16GB RAM.

[Mario Paiano]

I am really new at this. Was in to looking for Resolve8 but now the lite version is here I will look into that first. Some things I noticed and don’t understand:

1) The install process did not go that well, lots of duplicate popup install questions
2) Freeze at Reboot (Its a MUST Restart
3) On startup I suddently have a PostgreSQL Login name ? (What’s up with that?)
4) I suddenly have an Nvidea CUDA setting window on startup which I must fill in…I don’t even have an Nvidea card…:S What must I do with that.
5) Other than that a lot of icons appeared on my desktop which I don’t know like PGadminIII and Application Stack Builder, is that normal?

Many thanks!

[Rohit Gupta]

Hi Mario,

To get rid of the Postgreql user showing on the Login page, you can type this command on the terminal:

sudo dscl . -delete /Users/postgres AuthenticationAuthority

After you press enter, you will be prompted for your password, and that’s it.

This will done automatically in the next update, but I presume you don’t want to wait for the next update.

Regards,
Rohit