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Performance questions for Resolve with RED footage
We have a 12-core 2011 Mac Pro with 64GB RAM, ATI Radeon HD 5770, and 4 7200 RPM hard drives.
We also have an 8-core 2008 Mac Pro with 8GB RAM, ATI Radeon HD 2600, and 4 7200 RPM hard drives.
We use Red Scarlet & Epic footage with RedCine X Pro, FCP, Premiere, After Effects, and Davinci Resolve.Does a Red Rocket card improve GPU performance for Visual FX with FCP, AE, PR, and Davinci?
I know it helps read 4k and transcode faster.
Would it be able to use the Mercury engine, Open GL, and Davinci CUDA with RR?
Or would it be necessary to buy a different graphics as well for working since PR and Resolve prefer Nvidia cards?We use hard drive 1 for OS only, drives 2-3 for project files, drive 4 for rendering and cache files.
Would this work well? How would a RAID 0 drive work in a similar instance and how would that be setup correctly?What are the best preference settings for Davinci Resolve with above hardware?
Brandon Morris
Co-owner/Creative Director
http://www.fugostudios.comRED Scarlet, Canon T2i, Panasonic HPX-170
Nikon Primes
Mac Pro 12-core 64GB RAM (2011)
Mac Pro 8-core 12GB RAM (2008)
Mac Pro 4-core 8GB RAM (2006)
13″ Macbook Pro (Mid 09) 8GB RAM Lion -
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A lot of questions.
I don’t own a REDRocket, but my impression is that it does fast de-Bayering and that’s all it does.
For about $7000 dollars.Resolve doesn’t just “prefer” nVidia cards; until such time as CUDA starts appearing on other platforms, it is the “only” card. I read somewhere that nVidia has recently opened the door to open-sourcing that method of processing, so other manufacturers might become an eventuality. By then we all might likely have jumped the Mac ship anyway, given the reported speeds available under Windows7 and its nVidia support as opposed to Apple hostility, both w.r.t. drivers and physical hosting challenges.
I have a similar internal drive strategy, although I use drive 2 for cache/RTE renders, and RAID-zero 3/4 in a single stripe for double-spindle access to dense media. I also wedge another drive into the optical2 drive space for compressions and baked-movie output. Plus a port-multiplied eSATA slot because almost 100% of my work is with external projects on portable drives. I also build dual-enclosure 4TB RAID-0 external drives for backup, archive, and export.
You will also find that half- and quarter-res good proxies are your friend, even with multi-core MacPros. They’re just not that fast, really, when it comes to doing more than GarageBandX.
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You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?
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