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New MacPro, iMacs
The new 12-core MacPros have been announced with ATI graphics cards. These will have 2 DisplayPorts and 1 DVI-D.
Now, will Resolve on Mac work with all this?
And will any of the iMacs be fact enough for Resolve?
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Neil Sadwelkar
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DaVinci for Mac was announced to work on a laptop. An iMac is basically a MacBook, only that the screen is fixed and it’s got a stand. Oh, and it’s got i5 and i7 CPUs.
Doesn’t look too bright with ATI being the only choice so far.
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As far as I’m aware the ATI cards are non-cuda – so no…..
You’ll need NVidia GPU with the GTX285 or FX4800.
Jamie Allan
Post Production Consultant
DaVinci Specialist (Linux/Mac)
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Essentially, what they’ve announced today makes no difference? At it’s core, will you be just as well served with a previous gen MacPro and a GTX285?
Josh Petok
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Wow, extremely dissapointing announcement. Check this out:
ATI Only means no DaVinci love. Maybe someone will use those beta GTX 480 drives to create some homebrew support for better GPUs?
This is the big one:
3 PCI-e slots, only one of them being 16x 2.0
That’s right, even though we were complaining about things getting tight, they actually cut down a PCI slot. Correct me if I’m wrong, but this makes it all but impossible to run DaVinci on the new Pros?
So am I just misunderstanding something or is Apple really screwing its pro users right now?
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Based on these announcements, do you think that Blackmagic should release a version of DaVinci Soft for Linux?
Don’t get me wrong. I’m a devoted Mac user, but in some instances, I think a Linux version would make a lot more sense. It appears that Decklink is compatible with Linux as are many of the nVidia cards. For me, the major losses would be not being able to use DNxHD or ProRes material.
Josh Petok
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Well the disturbing thing is that basically the DaVinci Mac is designed to run on Hardware that is now officially EOL with no new hardware coming out. I don’t know what the mood in BM offices is like right now.
Problem with Linux Soft is that whatever restriction put on it would have to be artificial, or else their price-point differentiation dissapears. I’m not sure – I am still hoping that we’re missing a piece of the puzzle – I for one am a little puzzled.
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It looks like the major difference between the two is the option to link multiple systems together via infiniband to decrease processing time or increase realtime.
from blackmagic:
adding this software license lets you smash the limitations of a single computer because it allows a cluster of computers with high performance GPU cards, so all processing is always real time. You get the power of a super computer, and the full license means you can just keep purchasing GPUs and CPUs via high speed InfiniBand for as much power as you need at no extra cost! Add 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16 GPUs, and it’s all possible because only DaVinci Resolve scales up as your needs increase!
Couldn’t that be control via a dongle or SW license file?
Josh Petok
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I think so. But unfortunately, those types of measures are so easily bypassed it would certainly hurt BM in a certain way. The beauty of releasing a Mac version of DaVinci (how I saw it at least) was that due to the Mac’s closed and limited nature it provided X power with limited growth potential, but that potential was physically limited by the entire closed architecture.
In artificial licensing limit is much more easily broken. Of course, I don’t want to say that everyone will go out and crack open their DaVinci to get a $50,000 software for $1,000, but the ability to do that becomes so much more accessible that it should be on BMs mind when considering something like that.
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Ah sorry, I did misread that. 3 slots referred to the 3 slots left after the GPU. So 4 slots total. Whew, ok they’re not crazy at Apple.
Still, it very much maintains the status quo and leaves us with no new GPUs.
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USB 2.0? Really? Firewire 800 is nice but it’s like 7 years old. No USB 3? No esata? But it’s like Again, I can get a PC with better specs than this new Mac Pro. Does this mean they will reduce the price? I’m assuming the top of the line model will be more like $3000-4000? I guess it’s true, all Apple cares about right now are mobile devices.
-Peter
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