resolve and smoke on mac

[Andreas Wideroe]

[jake blackstone] “There are no apps now, that utilize this newfound ability to write prores. And don’t forget, that as of right now, Prores writing is only command line affair…”

Really? At this very moment I’m encoding a file on my old Windows XP computer to Prores using Avanti GUI and a precompiled Win32 version of ffmpeg.

So, we have an app and a gui. 😉

/Andreas

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[Jake Blackstone]

Really? Is there an editing, grading or compositing software, that utilizes this ability to write prores on Windows or Linux? Once Resolve, Premiere or RedCine-X or for this matter, ANY useful software, that can write Prores on Windows or LINUX, let me know. But before then, if you want to experiment, nobody’s stopping you.
Just don’t waste everyone’s time with stories of capabilities, that is nowhere near ready to be used in real production environment.

[Robert Ruffo]

DOesn’t monoprice sell a DVI switch? I think I will get one…

[Perry Trest]

I’m running Avid Media Composer, Final Cut Pro, and Davinci Resolve on a single MacPro with 5770 GUI, Q4000 GPU, BM card, and Nitris DX card. The trick is to have separate boot drives or partitions for each system. This eliminates conflicts between systems and makes it easy to manage updates to one system while not negatively affecting the others. I have a single 1.5TB internal drive with three boot partitions. This set up has served me well for about two years now.

Perry Trest
POSTDIGITAL, Inc.

MacPro 12core 2.66Ghz
6GB RAM
Slot 1 = ATI 5770
Slot 2 = Quadro 4000
Slot 3 = DeckLink SDI
Slot 4 = Nitris DX HIC
Internal 6TB software RAID-0
Tangent Wave
HP DreamColor

[Adriano Castaldini]

Dear Gabriele,
sorry if I enter this topic for a personal question, but I see your Apple configuration with 5 graphics card and the Cubix, and I need to setup a workstation essentially to do editing & color-correction in 4K 48fps redcode.
What do I need to do this in real-time (or at least without too many problems)?
1. Why do you need two red-rockets? In your opinion one card is not sufficient for 4K 48fps redcode?
2. I’d like to use an Apple workstation, then using Cubix; so how many Quadro 4000 do you recommend?
3. Using Cubix, can I install also non-mac-compatible pc cards?
4. I want to work with external storage, and Redcode 4K at 24fps is 440Mb/s (55MB/s), then I suppose that at 48fps is the double (110MB/s); so with this required speed which is the solution:
a) Thunderbolt could be sufficient?
b) 2x G-SPEED eS Pro SAS + 1x ATTO 680 card?
c) 4x G-SPEED eS Pro SAS + 2x ATTO 680 card? (as in NAB G-tech demo)
d) other…
And… RAID 0 or 5+0 or other?
5) Which couple of softwares do you recommend fo 4K? Premiere + DaVinci? And is there the possibility to export the video file from Premiere to DaVinci without re-enconding process (or without lossy process)?
Thanks a lot

[Adriano Castaldini]

Dear Gabriele,
sorry if I enter this topic for a personal question, but I see your Apple configuration with 5 graphics card and the Cubix, and I need to setup a workstation essentially to do editing & color-correction in 4K 48fps redcode.
What do I need to do this in real-time (or at least without too many problems)?
1. Why do you need two red-rockets? In your opinion one card is not sufficient for 4K 48fps redcode?
2. I’d like to use an Apple workstation, then using Cubix; so how many Quadro 4000 do you recommend?
3. Using Cubix, can I install also non-mac-compatible pc cards?
4. I want to work with external storage, and Redcode 4K at 24fps is 440Mb/s (55MB/s), then I suppose that at 48fps is the double (110MB/s); so with this required speed which is the solution:
a) Thunderbolt could be sufficient?
b) 2x G-SPEED eS Pro SAS + 1x ATTO 680 card?
c) 4x G-SPEED eS Pro SAS + 2x ATTO 680 card? (as in NAB G-tech demo)
d) other…
And… RAID 0 or 5+0 or other?
5) Which couple of softwares do you recommend fo 4K? Premiere + DaVinci? And is there the possibility to export the video file from Premiere to DaVinci without re-enconding process (or without lossy process)?
Thanks a lot