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Resolve Machine with Mutiple PostProduction uses
Take, for example, a Mac Pro with a GT120 GUI, and a GTX 285 (or 470) GPU for video cards. The user would like to also use (in addition to Resolve) FCP 7, and RedCine-X. I am wondering do these 2 additional applications even use/recognize the heavy lifting 285/470 card? Or, should the user switch the monitor to 285/470 card and use it as the main video card outside of resolve? I have a hard time understanding (outside of Resolve specifically looking for a second video cards for its GPU processing) how a video card simply plugged into a PCI-e slot with no monitor connected to it is recognized and utilized by a system cross-application.
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[Ryan Snook] “I have a hard time understanding (outside of Resolve specifically looking for a second video cards for its GPU processing) how a video card simply plugged into a PCI-e slot with no monitor connected to it is recognized and utilized by a system cross-application.”
Its application specific, as far as I can gather. Final Cut used to offer, for example, the “Effects Handling” tab in its settings. If you had an accelerator card that supported a specific codec, you could deliberately divert that processing to that specific card. With the advent of I/O cards like AJA Kona, etc., they automatically invited FCP to use their resources, so even when you open up that dialogue, FCP has control of everything it can see and you have all the options that Henry Ford used to offer — ie., any color you like as long as its “black”.
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You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?
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red cine x would benefit from …. 🙂 you know rocket
generally you would like to go with 470 instead of 285 speed in mind with resolve
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Margus
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And a GT120 in slot 1 is very good for OpenOffice, but thats basically it.
For anything that requires some juice, a Quadro4000 is still the only option.A slice of color…
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So with a GTX 470 in the double-width slot 1, and the GT 120 in slot 2 normally having the cinema display connected via mini displayport into the GT 120, should one switch his/her monitor to be connected to the GTX 470 for non-resolve apps or while booting into windows to be used as the main video card?
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Yes, that or getting a Quadro4000 for slot 2
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So are you saying for anything including resolve the quadro is a better GUI card and multipurpose card? It was sort of odd to read in the config guide with knowledge of the newer cards, them say that the best performance is still yielded with a GT120 and GTX 285
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those are the two cards that apple officially supports.
if you are product maker you have to comply with supported platform.
you can put what ever to your machine but BM can not suggests that for legal reasons for starters.
so you have to decide what way to go. you just know what is supported and to what extent.
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Margus
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Well, my biggest problem is the Cinema LED screen.
It only accepts display port, so thats the main reason for the Quadro4000.
Also it just runs flawlessly without any hacking.
Resolve is much more flexible, you can virtually use anything up to GTX590 as the second or third GPU if you find the power for it.
The cards are internally supported if you look closely enough 🙂A slice of color…
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