Resolve 9, PC and Prores render

[Jimmy Christensen]

You might want to check out ffmbc which is probably better at creating metadata.
https://code.google.com/p/ffmbc/

[Dan Moran]

Apple own Prores so its totally up to them. It makes sense for them to keep ProRes a Mac only render codec for Resolve as it means people will have to buy a MacPro rather than building a Windows box.

The option I use is we have Linux systems for the speed and then two mac systems in our machine room for ingesting and rendering anything thats ProRes. Works really well as the main suites are always grading.

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[Timo Teravainen]

Is there a gui front-end for ffmbc? For ffmpeg, I’ve been using AnotherGUI, it has presets for prores.

[Jimmy Christensen]

You can most likely just replace ffmpeg.exe with ffmbc.exe
Edit:
They actually mentions it on the AnotherGUI website :
“ffmbc vs. ffmpeg
ffmbc has several proffessional exhangements like target IMX, target DNxHD and supports mapping audio cahannels. The latest one makes possible to create elementary streams with every audio channel in separate file.”

[Timo Teravainen]

Dan, do you render DPX intermediate from Linux systems?

[Chris Kenny]

[Jimmy Christensen] “You might want to check out ffmbc which is probably better at creating metadata.
https://code.google.com/p/ffmbc/“

Yeah, should have been more specific. That’s what I’m using.

And a quick update: I’ve got it embedding timecode and reel names that Resolve can read correctly.

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[Robert Houllahan]

So with multiple Linux Resolve machines do you run a Mac-Pro as a Pro-Res render station sort of like Baselight Compressor? And if so do you just share the database and open the project (with shared media) in the OSX machine only to render Pro-Res?

i.e. Prores as the last reason to run OSX?

-Rob-

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[Juan Salvo]

Actually in linux ffmpeg has reversed engineered the ProRes codec (444 doesn’t work so well) so while I don’t think you can make ProRes out of the box.. you can make a dpx sequence or something, and then convert to prores on the linux station.

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[Bradley Stuckel]

PRORES encoding!… on Windows would be fantastic!

Does anyone know where to find the Davinci Resolve 8.2 beta 3 version which supports prores encoding???

If not does anyone have the prores enables resolve setup file still that they are willing to share?

Thanks!

[Juan Salvo]

It was pulled shortly after release.

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