using free version w old graphics card

[Laurent Fluttert]

Hi Edwin,
If Resolve works on your iMac, you will be able to use all the features that are in the software. Maybe it’s a bit slow, but that’s it.
The free version basically has everything the payed for version has, except for noise reduction and the ability to go beyond 4K. I think there are some more differences, but nothing big.

Laurent

[Joseph Owens]

[Laurent Fluttert] “there are some more differences, but nothing big.”

Because its an AMD GPU, you will not be accessing any of the leveraged CUDA media processing (but it won’t be the impediment that it would be to older nVidia cards that do not support CUDA2.0).

The other small caveat to the basic edition is that there are some packaged OFX plugins that require the Studio level application — not only the BMD originated ones but some other third-party suppliers’ FX require multiple-frame access, which *entry-level* cannot supply. Very prominent example would be the Mocha-enabled Pixel Chooser that accompanies the Boris Continuum.

An interesting proposition might be ownership of a Mocha license — perform and export your own tracking data and try to import that into the Resolve Boris plugin… don’t know if that is possible. I think you can go the other way. This might seem faintly ridiculous from a cost/benefit perspective when it might be cheaper and more beneficial/efficient to simply own a Resolve license and buy the OFX component that you want. Then you have the whole orchestra under one roof, which is increasingly the whole aim of the *Resolve Evolution*. Which might be the new name for Resolve 14. What do you think, Peter?

jPo

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