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    Render at source resolution (6K) fail… any work arounds?

    Posted by Nat Jencks on May 5, 2016 at 4:29 pm

    Working on some red material (R3D) @ 6K. I’d like to render Prores at source resolution so that the editor can recreate all the moves since there are a lot of complicated moves/zooms/repos and extreme zooms that didn’t translate well into resolve. But when I render at source resolution the system locks up after rendering a handful of shots.

    Seeing the same behavior on two different machines, one runnning 11.3.1 and the other running 12.5

    Fully loaded new Mac Pro towers. I realize rendering at 6K is a big ask, but any ideas for workarounds?

    best
    -Nat

    Nat Jencks replied 10 years ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Rohit Gupta

    May 5, 2016 at 11:45 pm

    Assuming you have plenty of system RAM (24GB or higher), set the preferences memory to 12GB. If you don’t have enough RAM, try setting it to 8 perhaps.

    Also, if you are doing any NR at 6K, I hope you have GPUs with 12GB VRAM or more.

  • Nat Jencks

    May 6, 2016 at 1:10 am

    Thanks Rohit, I might be missing something obvious but what do you mean “set the preferences memory to 12GB”? I have 64GB of RAM. No noise reduction at all.

    Thanks!
    -Nat

  • Nat Jencks

    May 6, 2016 at 5:27 pm

    After a bit more poking around it looks to me like the ability to manually set the amount of pre-allocated memory is new to version 12.5 is that correct? Or perhaps version 12? I’m running v11 for this but have a machine set up with v12.5 that I can test with the memory manually set higher.

    Thanks
    -Nat

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