Chris Tomberlin
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Though it was F65 and not F55 footage, I recently used Resolve 9.1 to transcode directly to Avid MXF files. It was very fast and the files dropped right in the media files folder – didn’t even need fast import.
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Kevin,
I have this exact same need. I don’t see a link in your post though, could you provide one?
Thanks
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Sure, happy to talk to you about it unless I’m tied up with a client. 205-822-4060 is the office number.
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Yes, Smoke works with this set up. That was part of what prompted all this insanity. On this one system I can run Resolve (which supports Decklink only), Smoke (which supports Kona only), Avid (which works better with AJA than BMD), FCP7, Premiere, After Effects, etc… One box to rule them all!
There are some caveats as I mentioned previously – for instance it helps to have a way to switch your video outputs since you’ll be feeding your monitor, deck, etc, two outputs (one from each capture card). Also, this is early testing on my part and I haven’t really torture tested everything yet; but so far so good. I’ll also occasionally get a kernel panic when restarting from one partition to another, but the mac just sits there for a minute, reboots again and comes up fine.
And lastly, the Cubix (actually, I think it’s the GTX690 IN the Cubix) is a little louder than I’d like for something that’s in the suite. You might also need a sound isolation box to keep things quiet.
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Just wondering what are you basing such a definitive statement on? The only issue I’ve experienced so far is that it keeps the kona card from showing up when I boot into that partition. Have you had a bad experience with a decklink card in a Cubix? Even the Cubix site lists compatibility with decklink cards….
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Out of complete and utter disappointment in Decklink functionality with Avid, and an equally complete love for Resolve I’ve attempted this set up. For a variety of reasons, I couldn’t physically get both cards into my Mac so I ordered a Cubix expander which also gives me the ability to beef up Resolve with additional GPUs.
Current set up is Kona 3 in Mac Pro, Decklink 3D extreme in Cubix (along with GTX650 and Quadro4000). With the Cubix running I can boot into a “Resolve” partition that has no AJA drivers installed and everything works great. No conflicts at all between the Decklink and the Kona. When I boot into the “Kona” partition which has no Decklink drivers installed there is however a problem. The Kona drivers don’t load and the Kona card is not recognized. If I shut down, power off the Cubix and boot again into the “Kona” partition everything DOES work as expected. Speculation from Cubix support so far is that there is a resource allocation problem with the OS and the two video cards and they suggested I try moving the cards to different slots and see what happens.
I haven’t had time to try this yet, but for the moment I simply leave the Cubix off unless I’m booting in the “Resolve” partition. It makes the restarts slower because I literally have to power down the mac, plug in the Cubix and cold boot rather than a simple restart to another partition. I hope to test other configurations more next week to see if I can make this work without having to power down each time I switch.
This has been a rather expensive way to fix two things:
1) BMD has been slow to make their Avid drivers work as well as AJA’s
2) Resolve only works with BMD hardwareIn fact, if BMD had a $2500 version of Resolve that worked with AJA, they would have gotten my $2500 rather than Cubix. But hey, I wouldn’t be able to use that smokin’ GTX690 either.
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Yeah, I get all that but couldn’t they just charge me $2000 for resolve? That’s still a great price and they make more money than Resolve plus a decklink card. Just let a guy dream will ya?
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Except that:
1) Smoke for Mac does not support BM
2) BM cards are sluggish with Avid and don’t properly support hardware release
3) My system just seems to like the AJA stuff better
I really love Resolve. But the other software I use is happier with AJA hardware.
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Well you sort of hit on part of my problem – resolve and smoke on the same system. With resolve only supporting BLackmagic and smoke only supporting AJA, how would you make this work? Cubix and dual boot with either Aja or bmd drivers or what?
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I’ve seen this issue too.
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