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Resolve on Mac update
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You can get the Cubix Xpander for Octane Render with a couple GTX 285’s pre-installed. The Xpander alone is only $870!!! The only other thing I’ve found in this price range is the Magma ExpressBox1, but it only supports cards using 55 watts or less. Cubix also has an ExpressCard 34 option in case you want to turn your Macbook Pro into Godzilla.
The best thing about this? The option to run external card combinations will allow Resolve/CS5 and Color to run on the same system so Color users won’t need to blow thousands on redundant gear.
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Sounds too good to be true, and I haven’t seen any official documents on this. And as long as the BMD guys haven’t told us anything about support for it, I won’t waste my time reading and dreaming.
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[Todd Jaspers] “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.”
What hardware are you talking about? Besides the actual computer, there’s no hardware requirements for FCP and Shake.
Here’s an interview with Grant Petty if you want to read more about Blackmagic and DaVinci.
https://magazine.creativecow.net/article/davinci-rebuilding-the-brand-for-the-21st-century
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[Ola Haldor Voll]“Sounds too good to be true”
Are you looking on this site?
Audio guys have been doing this for years with HD/Accel cards so this isn’t anything new. The concept is new to video post because our applications haven’t been designed to take advantage of multiple GPU processing.
Besides installing the NVIDIA drivers, there’s no other software/installations involved. The Mac see’s it as it’s own PCI Express slots and there’s no way for Resolve to even know the Mac is connected to an expansion chassis.
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I’ve seen it before. It’s interesting, but until I know it’s proven to work with Resolve, I’m spending my money on a control surface for starters. 🙂
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What hardware are you talking about? Besides the actual computer, there’s no hardware requirements for FCP and Shake.
I would consider a MacPro Hardware. Apple made its money, before iPhones, off of hardware. The software was an intensive to buy macs. Now its doesn’t really matter, so Apple seems to have stopped developing high end software to attract Mac converts.
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FCP isn’t the only reason to buy a Mac Pro, there’s plenty of other incentives.
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This has been mentioned before. If I’m correct in thinking, Apple have OS X basically locked to 1x GPU for monitoring and 1x GPU for Software. Can’t quite remember where I read that though.
Certainly there would be no reason BMD would ever want to allow this anyway. It would completely knock out their early Linux systems if you could line-up 4x GPUs within a £10-15k Mac combination. The entry points would go from that £10k mark all the way up to maybe a £60/70k jump.
Well, I wouldn’t if I owned their business… I’d develop my own costly add-on!
(Secretly fingers are crossed though!)
I don’t know how it works, but if it replicated a single GPU you might get away with it, but then again OS X limited the power of the individual cards (hence flashing 295 NVidia’s won’t give you more power).
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1. It works similar to the NVidia Quadro Plex’s used on the previous Resolves.
2. It already works for Mac.
3. It would just be mean(haha) if BMD went out of their way to prevent Macs from using it with Resolve.
Just updated their website.
https://www.cubixgpu.com/Solutions/Laptop
They’re going to post a demo
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So no other cards supported yet ..(kona) sad face 🙁
i know its blackmagic and all but it would have been nice to use some previous investment.
Otherwise, great news. Im buying the software no matter what
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