Adam Berk
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I should be more specific about my issues with quicktime on windows resolve… We have found the YUV flavors of prores (LT, 422, 422HQ, etc) to be very unstable. We have also found general system performance to be very poor with high resolution Prores4x4 as compared to the same material on a mac. The complete lack of support for XQ is also a drag on our workflow when dealing with lots of alexa footage.
R. Adam Berk
Managing Director
Creative Technology San Francisco
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Go to your project settings. Image scaling. Set output scaling to HD and your preferred fit method (default is to match timeline settings). Make sure you go back and change this before you render or explicitly set ure render res or set to “render at source res” otherwise your renders will be HD.
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Yes – use the AJA or Blackmagic disk test.
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Give Tolis Group (Bru) a call. They sell Tolis branded HP drives and robots at highly competitive pricing. HP LTO hardware is generally considered to be the highest quality stuff. We’ve got a 24bay LTO-5 robot we bought from Tolis. It has been a great piece of hardware.
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Bonding the NICs on the mac clients won’t gain you any speed to/from the server in that configuration.
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I swore away from these forums a while back, but what the hell, I may decide to throw in a post here and there if all goes well.
What sort of speeds are you getting with the Aja system test (1920×1080 10bit RGB) or the Blackmagic Disk Test? From what I’ve seen, using simple AFP with a Mac Pro as a server in a configuration like this doesn’t get very good throughput. Bob’s own “review” of the maxxdigital final share notes only 300MB/s throughput to 10gbe connected clients. I would not consider this acceptable for the workflows I’m responsible to design and implement. On our test bed system we’ve seen upwards of 600MB/s and above for mac clients using a slightly different setup (myricom cards, windows 2008 R2 server, metalan).
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Like I said, it’s a decision to be made by the facility engineer. It is generally not a good idea, but in this case, had it worked properly, it had the potential to save a full day’s worth of work over the weekend and it was decided to to go ahead and try it. As I also said, nothing was lost except a bit of time. Backups are essential, especially right before updates. I must add though, I am still quite surprised how diverted and lost some of these threads can really get. This thread very quickly went from discussing the potential causes of degraded performance and things to try to fix it, to a flame war prompted by my frustration with never being presented with an option to purchase a support plan. I did not mean for my comments to be interpreted as a dissatisfaction with the support Blackmagic has offered to us Mac Resolve owners for free. In fact I feel the exact opposite. The support they’ve offered is incredible. I meant only exactly what I said, that an option for a true support contract for those who need it would be welcomed. There are those who will understand that need, there are those who actually have the need, and there are those who have no idea what a support plan is.
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Hmm. I guess I’m not sure you read my post.
I noted that I am working from a restored database. Policy here is regular database backups. Especially before software updates.
Sometimes updates mid project can be called for. It’s a decision to be made by the facility engineer.
It’s sad that we all have no other choice but to come here for support after 4pm or on the weekends.
Moving to another platform would be a decision that is not influenced by your suggestions.
Please be surprised if you see me posting on creative cow anytime in the near future.
Best of luck to you all.
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1. We bought resolve because we liked the software. Not because of the price.
2. We run it on a Mac because Linux sucks to use. We have several autodesk linux systems and if we had the option to get the performance and features we need on a more mainstream and compatible OS for those systems, we would choose that option.
3. If a $15,000/yr maintenance and support contract was available for resolve, we would buy it.
4. No one care about your opinions. You have no idea what you’re talking about. If you have nothing to say that will contribute to solving the problem being discussed in this thread, post elsewhere, start a new thread, or don’t post at all.thanks,
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Where is the config file?