Resolve on a iMac27″ ATI 4850

[Joseph Owens]

Or for that matter, why not iPhone/ iPad?

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[Arnie Schlissel]

How much lower end do you really want to get? What’s the point? There’s absolutely no way to connect a video monitor or high speed storage to an iMac, and the single display will be too crowded.

I’m all for saving money where I can, but at a certain point you need to bite the bullet & either admit that you can’t afford something or find the money to do it properly.

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[Ola Haldor voll]

Jesus guys.. Why not be reasonable and answer something useful or just shut the..

Arnie, as far as I know from requirements I’ve seen, you won’t be able to use the iMac with an ATI GPU. DaVinci requires a GPU with CUDA, which is an nVidia technology.

[Tim Wilson]

[Ola Haldor Voll] “Jesus guys.. Why not be reasonable and answer something useful or just shut the..”

Thank you for the reminder, Ola. Much appreciated. Please answer or don’t.

[Sascha] “I am not talking about performance or accuracy…just the basic desktop, getting into it and stuff.”

Seriously guys, Sascha should be *rewarded* for knowing that an iMac is sub-pro. He’s asking about just launching an application, not working in it. Compare this to many others who post elsewhere who really, really don’t want to hear anything of the sort. Hey, Apple makes the computer – so Apple software should just WORK on it, right?

Sascha, in general, opening the app and poking around it on a 27″ screen isn’t such a bad idea. Certainly acres more real estate that a laptop. But as Ola points out, there are some basic technology limitations that mean it likely won’t work.

Coupla other notes: One, while there are things that iMacs CAN’T do, there are some quite surprising things that they CAN do…especially in a configuration like Sascha’s that doesn’t call for heavy lifting.

Two, if I have a choice to do anything on my laptop or my iPad, I think twice. Many times, there’s no choice, but no question which is more fun. 🙂

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[Margus Voll]

Hi.

Look at this video.

The really end part 🙂

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[Margus Voll]

NO link 🙂

https://www.macvideo.tv/editing/features/index.cfm?articleId=3222371

Here you can see works on laptop.

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[Sascha Haber]

Hi guys, funny to see the thread going that way…kinda expected too 🙂

Ok. I am sitting in nice fully blown Scratch suite will terrabytes of storage, Quadro 5800 SDI, calibrations everywhere and the CP-200 set at work.
This is how it should be for professional work and I am not question that.
But I want to expand my knowledge and be prepared for the day a DOP comes along with his Macbookpro and shows me his pre-grades he did in Resolve.
I am totally confident Resolve WILL work on the new MBPs, due to the nice GF320 GT, and CUDA can be translated in software or hardware, so it will work, probably just slower.
Also most of the interface and maybe even the pixel shaders are not depending on CUDA at all…I dont know yet.
So let me rephrase the question :

Has anyone access to Resolve OSX already and tried it on a modern ATI card yet ?
If not the next logical step would be to buy a 15″ MBP again and hook that up to the 27″ screen

Again…this is for personal learning purposes, no production or client work.

[Simon Blackledge]

Probably exactly the same reason I’m running Smoke OSX demo on a 27″ i7 .. to learn and get used to it without taking up another macpro at work.

And yes Smoke runs fine..

Resolve is probably more reliant on Cuda though. Suppose we’ll see in time.

So yes… there is a point to the question.

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[Illya Laney]

It’s not out for OSX yet. You’d have to contact the Blackmagic guys and find out if they’ve tried it.

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[Rick Turners]

I guess it makes sense for people to be peeved about this release..
sure, we can all learn Resolve now, but what that will ultimately mean is everyone will do it themselves instead of seeing professionals.

Yeah, I’m sure it will run on an iMac, with an iPad controller, within a month of its release.