[Aaron Hayden]

Now it works, Thanks!

Here are my results.

V1 2 nodes : 24 fps
V2 4 nodes : 24 fps
V3 6 nodes : 24 fps
V4 12 nodes : 24 fps
V5 NR 4 : 24 fps
V6 NR 4 : 24 fps
V7 NR 4 : 24 fps
V8 NR 4 : 12 fps

System info:
SuperMicro 7046gt-trf
2 x xeon X5690 3.47 GHZ
24 gigs of ram
1 quadro 4000 for gui
3 gtx 580 for gpu

Aaron Hayden
Colorist
Gurney Productions

[Aaron Hayden]

Id like to run this on my windows box with 3 gtx 580’s and a quadro 4000, but i can’t get it to import into resolve.

Gives me the error “failed to open archive!”

Is it not possible to open mac resolve projects on a windows resolve box?

Thanks

Aaron Hayden
Colorist
Gurney Productions

[Aaron Hayden]

Not a bad idea… but I have too many random cameras in my shows, I’d have over 30 tracks. Too much prep work for the convenience. I like your previous tip better 🙂

[Aaron Hayden]

Well that is a usable workaround for now. Still wish there was an option to have the reel # displayed inside the clip icon in the timeline.

Thanks for the tip!

Aaron

[Aaron Hayden]

I get crashes when I’m rendering and Resove reads a corrupt dnxhd file. Kind of annoying to wait for the program and project to reload every time it finds a bad file. I wish I would just raise an error or better yet skip the bad file and continue to render for everything else.

[Aaron Hayden]

For the past 3 weeks I’ve been coloring 43 minutes of material a day on a windows box. I started with the recommend Supermicro system and build it beyond their specs.

– 2 x5690 @ 3.47 xeon processors
– 24 gigs of ram
– 1 quadro 4000 for gui
– 3 EVGA Classifeid GTX 580 cards for GPU
– 5 drive internal raid (windows raid 0) for local storage
– SSD drive for system disk
– Decklink SDI for video out, my projects are all finished in HD and i had the card laying around.
– 4g atto Fiber card for connection to Unity 5 server
– Davinci Resolve BMD color panel

It runs Da Vinci like a BEAST! I can have 6 serial nodes with blur, power windows and noise reduction on all of them and still get 30 fps. All my media is dnxhd 220x with some phantom cine files, so I imagine performance would be even greater using DPX files, less decoding work for the CPUs.

Only downside is computer also doubles as a space heater and sounds like a leaf blower. Any room I put it in raises the temperature by ten degrees. The GPU cards are packed in the case very tight and I have to manual increase the fan speed on the cards to keep them from overheating. Plan on getting their recommend DVI and USB extension cables.

It took a couple weeks of testing to get the Avid roundtrip workflow down. The round trip works perfectly as long as your sequence prep is perfect. All in all I love the system and so glad to never be forced to color in Symphony Nitris ever again.

Aaron Hayden
Colorist
Gurney Productions
ahayden@gurneyproductions.com