Resolve OSX HDMI monitoring

[Ola Haldor voll]

I’m in no way near any “big budget” projects. I started with Apple Color when it was released, say 4 years ago? I’ve done loads of amateur short films, some music videos and commercials to go on the big screen. I started doing it for free just to get something REAL to work on instead of running around in the garden. As I progress, I’ve been charging more. I spend less time to reach a fair result than before. Frankly, I’m barely charging enough to take care of the bills at the office and at home..

I don’t need, and I don’t see myself doing 4K 3D stereoscoping projects. I don’t have the clients who needs it, nor do I want it at this moment.

For my sake, it’s getting the GPUs and the software license, and then a control panel. Next after that, a new Mac Pro, hopefully a 2010 model.. Still a pretty low investment to get into it and still actually work for a nice price so clients will continue to use your facilities.

[Ola Haldor voll]

Oh, and I read somewhere that it supports external mattes.. That’s also a VERY good point. Roto in Shake, Nuke, After Effects, you name it, and use the matte for the grading in DaVinci..

[Vladimir Kucherov]

Oh wow, I haven’t even heard that. If that turns out to be true, it’ll be huge, especially with how good the roto tools in AE cs5 have become.

By the way, assuming the DaVinci comes out before the new line of Mac Pro’s and GPUs I am going to give it a test drive with the GTS 8800 I currently have. I’ll couple that with a GT120, and hopefully it’ll chug me through the month of two waiting for more news from Apple. The 8800 has about half the CUDA and RAM of the GTX 285, so I am guessing it either won’t work at all or will give me very few realtime nodes. Again, only a temp solution, but I’ll update on if it works!

[Ola Haldor voll]

There are no drivers from nVidia to enable CUDA cores on the 8800GT as far as I know. At least there’s no mention of it at nVidias website.

I have the early 2008 with 8800GT myself, and will be ordering the GTX and GT 120 asap. Last thing I heard, there’s a 3 week delivery time from AppleStore to Norway.

[Ola Haldor voll]

OK, here we go.. Page 99 in the Resolve manual (available at the DaVinci website at BMD)
– Resolve now supports the ability to add unlimited external mattes within a clip.

And from there it goes on a little bit with text and images how to use it.

[Vladimir Kucherov]

You obviously gave the Resolve manual a closer read than I! Looks like I’ll never have to tell the client “that’s too complicated to track convincingly, we’ll have to take this to an after effects artist” again!

As for the 8800, I didn’t know this was the case. I’m thinking though I’ll try it anyway, since I want to wait on the GTX. There are too many variables right now in terms of GPU, with rumors of a new Mac Pro as early as september. It may even make more sense to sell my current machine and buy a new model.

[Ola Haldor voll]

Agreed. Selling your machine and get the mid 2010 would be a good choice, if you can’t utilize it in some other way, or you need the cash flow to handle the investment.

I thought of selling mine too, but then I thought I’d use it as a render farm as a multi-purpose machine..
Render node for LightWave 3D, capture device for mastering from DaVinci playback (if it can’t save back to files), and for general use like Illustrator and InDesign for designing covers and disc prints etc.

[Rick Turners]

I’m still wondering…
Does the Resolve for Mac input and output 2k/4k (dpx, R3D) as Apple Color does? Will it read R3D natively?

I agree, it’s all about the artist, I’m hoping this bridges that small iron/big iron gap.

And, one thing thats popular now is to have the editor do the online and grade for lower budget projects, and in smaller markets, where the directors want the cheapest quote..I imagine that would be why.

[Hyunsoo Kim]

You are right. With affordable grading tools became available, clients do not want to pay extra for 2K suites any more, and grading rates are not as high as it used to be even with high end tools. As a matter of fact, 2K system does not even attracts clients these days. It is just a thing of a past. Nobody really considered buying a brand new 2K for last 4~5years, and DaVinci stopped making it. In my case, getting the jobs done in time is my priority. I grade about 200 episodes of 60 min drama series a year, and I have less than 15 hours between final edited version and national broadcasting, most of the time.(sometimes I get to watch a show on TV I finished grading 2 hours before..) I have an up-to-date Color and a 10 years old 2K to choose from for such jobs, and I am just fortunate to have 2K in my suite.
But new Resolve will make clients little happier..

[Illya Laney]

Rick Turners “And, one thing thats popular now is to have the editor do the online and grade for lower budget projects, and in smaller markets,”

That’s funny. A good portion of my male editing friends have some form of color blindness.

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