Christopher Tay
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On the Resolve Mac, if you have a dual monitor setup, as long as it is a floating window, you can drag it to the other monitor. The waveform window would be considered a floating window and so is the Render window, which is more like an export window coz that’s where you export your images out to Quicktime or DPX.
-chrispy
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You can get a full turnkey Resolve Linux 4GPU with storage and Co-Processor for about £90K. The 4GPU will give you significantly more realtime performance at 2K resolution. SD and HD will be even more. And with the Co-Processor, you can grade with RED r3d at half res premium (2K fully debayered) in realtime. No background caching.
-chrispy
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Yes you can render out to 2K/4K in the Render page.
-chrispy
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You can grade at the highest RED setting (full res premium) but your playback speed will drop drastically. Dropping it to quater-res allows you to work in real time but at a lower resolution and you can see the difference when you toggle between the settings. The edges are rougher on the quarter res and it won’t mess up with your shapes but you’ll want to pull a key at the higher res first then drop down to quarter res for grading.
And yes you can cache at the highest setting and it caches to DPX so if say you work at half res good or premium, it will be cached as 2K DPX so this is where you’ll need a fast RAID for playback since it is no longer playing back at the RED datarate, but 2K DPX instead, which is like 300MB/sec.
You can either set what RED resolution you want to work at in the main Config page but you can still overwrite the RED setting on the individual clips in the timeline.
-chrispy
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You can catch a glimpse here, taken from the DaVinci Resolve brochure :
Or the video clips below from NAB2010 and the recent BroadcastAsia2010 show at the Blackmagic Design booth :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci42-QS6qdk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVNL5ozuBIw&feature=related
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Resolve does not support renderfarm so it won’t work.
-chrispy
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On the Mac Resolve you can render out to Quicktime to ProRes codecs and there are 422, 444 codecs in the list that I have seen. Not sure about rendering out with the audio though but my guess is not…will find out for you.
-chrispy
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PowerMastering is available on the Resolve on Mac and if any shots cannot be handled in realtime it will cache it before it goes off to tape and those are indicated with a cache icon.
-chrispy
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You can flag a clip for background caching while you work on another clip or you can enable Proxy-On-The-Fly mode which drops to a slightly lower resolution which you can set in the Config page and that gives you more realtime playback.
The GTX285 graphics card is already end-of-life so the NVIDIA FX4800 would be the choice for the Resolve on Mac and the Resolve software will take advantage of any new GPU technology as it becomes available. Dual-link output is certainly possible through the Decklink HD Extreme 3D card that it uses.
And as Jack mentioned, if you are going to be doing alot of 2K work, then you would want to look at the Linux model instead. The 4GPU model will be a good start as it will give you alot of realtime performance at 2K resolution. You can upgrade later to 8GPU or 16GPU, with 3D stereoscopic option, if you want to and the cost difference is just the additional hardware.
And remember that the Resolve Control Surface comes bundled with a Resolve on Mac license so for those who are looking at investing on the Linux model, you will have a Mac license which you can set it up as an assistant station handling conform, video injest/layoff, base grade, or less complex jobs and that can run with the Tangent Wave panel. You can also run it on the 17″ MacBook Pro for onset grading to set up beauty shots.
-chrispy
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Hi Ronald,
Only the network 2K panel works with Resolve, not the serial 2K panel. If you have a network 2K panel, you can get an 9pin A/B switch but the actual connectivity is still RJ45 so you’ll need a 9pin to RJ45 adapter. I’ve set this up before in a 2K suite and it works very well.
The Resolve Linux won’t be able to support ProRes as there are no ProRes codec on the Linux platform so it’ll need to be transcoded to Uncompressed codec or convert to DPX. The Resolve Mac will have support for ProRes but have not seen how the roundtripping will work with Resolve and FCP but I’m sure the DaVinci guys are working on that.
-chrispy