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Update: Resolve on new 2012/13 iMacs
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[charlie seetoh] “I think this is a good interim solution for me while waiting for the supposed new macpro.”
With Thunderbolt and a couple more years of CPU/GPU advances, some people waiting for a new Mac Pro might decide they don’t actually need one anymore. People used to buy $20,000 machines to run Photoshop better. Now Photoshop (unless you’re doing something very odd with it) just isn’t that demanding; it runs quite well on pretty much any modern system. While it’s not quite there yet, Resolve is well on its way to achieving that same status.
The whole way Blackmagic has handled Resolve since acquiring it — from their pricing, to their OS X and Windows ports, to the work they’ve done to optimize Resolve for single GPU systems — shows that they understand this very well and are eagerly embracing it. There are some other companies in pro video, on both the hardware and software side, that could learn from this.
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it really depends on the work and your needs.
i still see imac as good choice for home machine that i would not use with client.
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Margus
DaVinci 9, OSX 10.7.4
MacPro 5.1 2×2,93 24GB
GTX 470 / Quadro 4000
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Just wanted to ‘bump’ this… were they the promise drives?
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I think 9 nodes on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX looks very respectable for a one man shop like mine.
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I don’t know. With the ~3 nodes I get on my rMBP I wouldn’t consider using the machine for client supervised sessions (though since we got an UltraStudio mini and some external storage fast enough to handle 2K DPX I use it for unsupervised work and rendering on a pretty regular basis), but 9 nodes? I graded at least a dozen feature films on a 2008 Mac Pro GTX 285 + GT 120 combo with that sort of performance (perhaps even slightly worse). Sure, it would be a step down from the i7 3930K + GTX 580 Classified system I built for our larger suite, but… not much of one, in real-world use. At least the way I grade, there probably aren’t more than a half-dozen shots in a feature-length project that actually need more than 9 nodes, and there’s always render caching for those.
And what’ll it be on next year’s iMacs? 12 nodes? 15? Unless 4K finishing suddenly becomes the norm over the next 12 months, dual-socket Xeon workstations are bordering on being surplus to requirements for most work.
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Digital Workflow/Colorist, Nice Dissolve.You should follow me on Twitter here. Or read our blog.
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Yes if you are okay then it is really fine.
I have done also some feature work on slower pro with 285 and it is doable.
But it really depends on your client and what you charge.
Non client sessions do how ever you like i think.
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Margus
DaVinci 9, OSX 10.7.4
MacPro 5.1 2×2,93 24GB
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Is this with a second monitor for the scopes? (or using the scopes at all?)
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