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Resolve on Mac update
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How does less RAM hurt the 285 in terms of performance?
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I put a penny on caching.
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Much of this is proprietary but I’m sure you can appreciate that each clip has a number of frames in active memory and depending on the frame size this consumes memory to a greater or lesser extent. More nodes and complex grades also consumes more ram. Every CUDA core uses ram so there are clever calculations done to make this all work in real time. That’s the power behind Resolve. We have been working with CUDA for years. We have a Linux config with 16GPUs that has 3840 CUDA cores and 64GB of GPU RAM… that rocks!
Regardless, the GTX285 is EOL and until other options are available for Mac we can only spec the FX4800. -
Hey Peter, not that we don’t appreciate DaVinci for Mac, but after you spend all this time porting it to MAC, are you going to keep developing the software?
I have worked at lots of facilities across the west coast a few in the UK and some in New Zealand and it seems DaVinci had been loosing favour for a while. Most facilities where still using the 2k or 2k plus Resolve to recoup investment, but a lot of people where switching to Baselight and others. It seemed Filmlight had really started to take that high end DaVinci market and they are very aggressive developers and hardcore coders. I hadn’t heard of anyone buy a DaVinci for years and years, almost 15.
I just don’t want Blackmagic to do an Apple to everyone. Where everyone gets APPLE SHAKE or APPLE COLOR and FCP studio and thinks there is a future there just to realize it was a ploy to buy hardware. I don’t want this to be a ploy to buy Blackmagic hardware.
Who is on the DaVinci development team? Did they move from Florida to Melbourne? What are some future developments to the software?
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A great question: The old DaVinci did fall behind in some feature areas while zoomed ahead in many others. (4k GPU based non cache processing and real time stereo were delivered in 2008 for example) But if you haven’t seen a new daVinci for 15 years I suggest you may have missed the few hundred that have been delivered in that time. Avatar was graded on Resolve, as was the Hurt Locker and Alice in Wonderland, Robin Hood etc. Many were also installed for TV commercial grading as Resolve as a number of unique and time saving/problem solving features yet to be introduced on other systems.
Enough of the past – to the future; our development team is working on many new features; none of which we will discuss until we release them. But as an example of our commitment, BMD introduced more than 20 new features at NAB as well as porting Resolve to Mac OS. These were not Mac specific features but were applicable for all our Linux and Mac customers.
All we can ask is to judge us on what we deliver, not on the past. Not on others. I believe our team will positively surprise you with every release.
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“Regardless, the GTX285 is EOL and until other options are available for Mac we can only spec the FX4800.”
You’re not removing support for the GTX 285 though? I know a few places that has GTX 285 in stock, and I’m definitely getting one.
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We continue to support GTX285 – and use them ourselves as well as the FX4800
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I have some questions regarding video output…
If the processing is done via CUAD, how is the real time video out done ?
1. Does it require a Decklink and then uses its SDI out ?
2. Does it work with the second output of the vNivia.
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Please refer to the original post which covers these items.
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“I hadn’t heard of anyone buy a DaVinci for years and years, almost 15”
Just finished installing a new Resolve R4 system at Nordisk in Oslo.
Interest is coming in from all over the world for the new systems….
I heard a quote for a baselight upgrade the other day that came out as twice the $$$ as an R4-3D system
Jamie Allan
Post Production Consultant
DaVinci Specialist (Linux/Mac)
Jamie@Jigsaw24.comJigsaw Systems Ltd. – IT & Broadcast specialists for the UK
https://www.jigsaw24.com
https://www.jigsawbroadcast.com
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