Resolve 8 vs. Color on MBP, Resolve training, & video output

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Resolve 8 vs. Color on MBP, Resolve training, & video output

Posted by Mike Halper on July 8, 2011 at 9:43 am

I have a new 17″ Macbook Pro with Thunderbolt. Just playing around with Resolve on it, it feels like Color actually plays the video back in realtime smoother and a higher fps than Resolve does. This is with some ProRes 422 HQ shots at 1080p. They also rendered out with a bunch of flashing lines and other issues, which I need to figure out why. I hope it’s just that I don’t have it set up properly, but can anyone chime in on if Resolve should be faster or slower than Color?

Also, is there a recommendation for any online tutorials or training for Resolve?

Last question, being that I’m on a MBP I don’t have the option for a Decklink card, and there doesn’t seem to be a way to output the video to a display I have connected to the MIni DisplayPort. Is this correct? Is the only solution the UltraStudio 3D, which isn’t even shipping yet?

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Mike

Mike Halper replied 14 years, 10 months ago 6 Members · 10 Replies
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Dan Moran
July 8, 2011 at 9:59 am

Hi Mike,

Can you send the following to me at davincihelp@blackmagic-design.com

You mac system profile and your davinci crash logs

You can find the logs here :

Library/Application Support/Blackmagic Design/DaVinci Resolve

Click Capture Logs

It will save the file to your desktop, if you could send that to us that would be great.

Thanks,

Dan

Dan Moran
DaVinci Application Specialist
Blackmagic Design EMEA
Rohit Gupta
July 8, 2011 at 10:24 am

Try setting to resize filter to Bilinear in the Config page, Settings.

Also – make sure you are using OSX 10.6.7/10.6.8.

Lastly, make sure the dongle is securely plugged in, and can be seen by the Mac System Profiler.
Sascha Haber
July 8, 2011 at 11:37 am

I love this kind of posts 🙂
Wonder when the real “free” version will be out

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Kim Krause
July 8, 2011 at 2:25 pm

i just got confirmation that the free version will be out near the end of the month….i’m sure they’re just waiting for the traffic to die down on the servers with all the upgrades happening right now. imagine if everyone was downloading the free version at the same time as others were upgrading to version8…that would be a real meltdown!
Mike Halper
July 9, 2011 at 7:26 am

Thanks for responding, Dan. I’m not having any crash issues or anything. It’s actually running fine. It just seems to play video less smoothly (i.e. at a much lower framerate) than Color. It the latest 17″ MacBook Pro, 2.3GHz i7, 8GB RAM, and video running off a second SATA internal hard drive at 7200RPM (I replaced the optical drive with a hard drive). Play the same video through Color results in much better performance.

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Mike
Mike Halper
July 9, 2011 at 7:32 am

Everything’s good in that regard. I tried the Bilinear setting and still get slow/choppy playback. FPS is only about 7 with just a single node and basic luma curve adjustment, increased saturation, and a vignette made by a circular power window with the outside luma reduced. Playback without any adjustments is about 13fps. These are 1920x1080p 23.98fps shots in ProResHQ.

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Mike
Rohit Gupta
July 9, 2011 at 10:42 am

I get 24fps with the same sort of grades on a fairly similar configuration. If you can send the logs as Dan asked for – we can figure out what might be going wrong. Also, please export your project, and send it as well.
Shane mario Ruggieri
July 13, 2011 at 4:16 am

No answer, more of a question I’ve not seen it mentioned here. What’s the speed of the hard drive? If it’s a 5400 rpm vs 7200 vs solid state, could that be a factor?

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Shane Mario Ruggieri
Editor • Colorist

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Shane mario Ruggieri
July 14, 2011 at 5:11 pm

Oops, thought I read the entire thread….sorry for the question..Doh!

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Shane Mario Ruggieri
Editor • Colorist

Coloring your piece isn’t an “option”, it’s the mark of dedication to the message.
Mike Halper
July 17, 2011 at 3:38 pm

I’ve been too busy to play with Resolve and work on this issue, but I think I figured out what happened. After I installed the program I noticed it installed CUDA drivers even though the MacBook Pro doesn’t have a NVIDIA GPU. So I went through and manually removed the CUDA drivers and that broke the program. It wouldn’t run at all. Reinstalling got the app running, but didn’t fully fix it. I may have removed something that wasn’t part of the program, but still needed by it. Restored the system and everything is good now.

Advice to everyone, don’t remove the CUDA drivers even though you don’t have a NVIDIA GPU. It must be translating OpenCL to CUDA or something and still needs those drivers work properly.

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Mike

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