[Arno Beekman]

ffmpeg can read and write prores on linux.

https://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-codecs.html#ProRes

[Arno Beekman]

ehm ehm start by defining “normal”…

if you have your attic full of tesla-towers and your source is 2×2 pixels jpeg then you should be able to render faster than 5 fps… unless your foot is on the cable…

no seriously, you give way too little info to say anything interesting about this.

no wait… why are you running a production on a beta release? maybe there are lots of debugging tools slowing the processing down, or maybe some experimental code in the dpx encoders…

oh and rendering hasn’t got much to do with disk access.

[Arno Beekman]

not knowing what kind of DPX you’re trying to create here’s a little math:

1920 x 1080 pixels, each have 3 colour values stored in 10 bit at 24 fps:

1920 * 1080 * 3 * 10 * 24 = 1492992000 bit/sec
1492992000 / 8*1024^2 = 177,978515625 MegaByte/sec ≈ 178 MB/s
that more than your RAID can handle isn’t it?

that doesn’t mean that that is the problem though. the bottleneck might be earlier in the chain…

[Arno Beekman]

I tried this a while ago.

You first need a postgresql server on a computer with access to the LAN and WAN.
Important here is that the PSQL version must match the one installed by Resolve.

The make sure there’s no firewall block outside access to the PSQL server (port 5432).

Once all that is running, anyone should be able to connect to your database and
projects created by Resolve. (And anything else in the database so take a close look
at how to secure your DB with accounts and passwords on the postgresql website!!!)

I haven’t tested this thoroughly, just got it to work.
I’ll be setting this up in a bug environment soon though.

greets
Arno

[Arno Beekman]

Resolve is built with CUDA, which is NVidia only. Apple only comes with AMD graphics cards these days so there’s no difference with wither one of the Macs you mention.

If you want an NVidia you will have to get an external one connected through Thunderbolt or get a MacPro.

Don’t expect any miracles from FCPX either.
So if you’re a student and on a budget, I’d get the cheapest option.

To be honest, maybe you should reconsider getting a Mac.