[Darin Wooldridge]

Per black magic it seems the GTX285 works best with the Resolve..
One negative, its a double wide card and eats up two slots in many configurations .
The 4000 without the daughter card is only single lane.

My second 285 arrived just today. 🙂 Now i just need something to stuff them both in..

NOTE: The comments above are strictly mine, and may not necessarily
represent those of my employers.

Darin Wooldridge
Colorist / Technical Strategist
818-653-3918-cell
dwooldridge@mac.com
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[Darin Wooldridge]

Please do. I’m thinking the rack mount cycolone might be best for my application.

NOTE: The comments above are strictly mine, and may not necessarily
represent those of my employers.

Darin Wooldridge
Colorist / Technical Strategist
818-653-3918-cell
dwooldridge@mac.com
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[Darin Wooldridge]

Good Day Sascha,

My duties while employed as the “home video mastering” colorist are as follows:

Create the data or tape for bluray and home video delivery
(usually 2 or 3 hd cam sr masters.) 2.40:1, 1.78:1, 1.33:1

This can be done old school from an IP, or from a scanned film element.
On bigger budget films that required a film out i would use the di files.
Converting them from log film space to rec709 lin. During this pass we trim for color approval with the dp / director / studio executives.

NOTE: The comments above are strictly mine, and may not necessarily
represent those of my employers.

Darin Wooldridge
Colorist / Technical Strategist
818-653-3918-cell
dwooldridge@mac.com
check me out at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Davinci-Resolve-Colorist/117363011609028?ref=….

[Darin Wooldridge]

Looks like I didn’t read far enough down..

The GPU-Xpander Desktop 4 might be the one.. Doesn’t look like it needs any upgrades.
2799 before tax and cards..

Searching for the cards and boards. My neighbor / engineer / mad scientist wants to do a little 2011 DIY:)

NOTE: The comments above are strictly mine, and may not necessarily
represent those of my employers.

Darin Wooldridge
Colorist / Technical Strategist
818-653-3918-cell
dwooldridge@mac.com
check me out at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Davinci-Resolve-Colorist/117363011609028?ref=….

[Darin Wooldridge]

Hey Nick,
Thanks for the comment I am also considering the cubix.
Just checking everything out before i pull the trigger.
May I ask what cubix and options you ordered ?

Did you get this unit with these ugrades?
GPU-Xpander Desktop 2 base..
SUBSTITUTE SINGLE-WIDTH, 4-SLOT PCIE x16 BACKPLANE FROM BASE UNIT 2-SLOT PCIE DOUBLE-WIDE, + $169.00
SUBSTITUTE PCI EXPRESS x16 DATA CABLE AND ADAPTER (40Gbps data transfer maximum, removes x8 data cable and adapter from base config), + $399.00
Total i get per the web site is 2262.00 before tax and cards ?

Forgive me if Im wrong. I have been looking the cubix web site and It looks like it will only take two double wide cards.

taken from the web site.
2 x PCI Express x16, 4 x PCI Express x 16
Supports 2 x double-wide graphics / GPU cards or 4 single-width graphics cards

NOTE: The comments above are strictly mine, and may not necessarily
represent those of my employers.

Darin Wooldridge
Colorist / Technical Strategist
818-653-3918-cell
dwooldridge@mac.com
check me out at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Davinci-Resolve-Colorist/117363011609028?ref=….

[Darin Wooldridge]

Good day everyone,

Ok, this started as a Merry Christmas post. At some point it lost focus. 🙂
I apologize for the fcp comment. I got caught in the moment and it was truly wrong.

My posts are about my personal home set up. And yes, I have and use fcp.
Working at tech is not something I mention very often.
My home resolve set up is not superior at all. Remember i am still testing on an 08 mac pro. I do this as hobby and enjoy learning every day. As you were so kind to point out I am not the lead colorist at tech nor have I ever claimed to be. My credit list has never been my focus. I am fortunate and happy to be the uncredited colorist on A title films. It keeps my family fed, housed and we have a great life.
As I was once told. “there is nothing wrong with being Robin” (Batman and Robin) 🙂
Spotlight is not my goal, longevity is.

It has been fun talking with like minded people with common goal.
I will attempt to keep my ideas and progress to myself.

I wish everyone a great new year.

NOTE: The comments above are strictly mine, and may not necessarily
represent those of my employers.

Darin Wooldridge
Colorist / Technical Strategist
818-653-3918-cell
dwooldridge@mac.com
check me out at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Davinci-Resolve-Colorist/117363011609028?ref=….

[Darin Wooldridge]

Wow happy new year everyone…

Mr. Owens,

You seem like you could be my elder so I will try to hold back. A little.
Quality has gone down? You must get you glasses checked. The high end game is getting better every day. I was mastering to 1″ and D1 not very long ago.. A tiny 525 interlaced piece of crap image.
Maybe in the hack, bottom feeder world where everybody thinks final cut pro is the answer it has suffered.
Today we have access to much better images and yes bigger data files in an attempt to reproduce film.
The tragedy is we are loosing the film. Digital cameras have robbed us of that beautiful media.

“cant we all just get along” lol

Darin Wooldridge
Colorist / Technical Strategist
818-653-3918-cell
dwooldridge@mac.com
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[Darin Wooldridge]

Jake,

Your missing the point. It’s not your grading monitor resolution that is important its keeping the file as good as it can be through the entire process. Its not just for you.. 🙂 I use 2k proxies all the time and render from the original 4k file. This keeps the footprint the same as source. Not to mention I can playback and monitor at that resolution.

If the client wants and pays for 4k, he gets exactly that. I don’t care it its for imax, you tube or a vhs.
As far as my mac resolve goes. I have this gear to learn, and as a hobby. It not my day job. I use the linux resolve in a theater daily. 4k to 10k will come mark my words.
Whatever software / hardware combo has been developed to do so I will be learning it.

My first feature in 4k was in 06/07. A small film you may have heard about. Spiderman 3.
I have worked on several in the past 4 years. It’s not going away. Its just starting to gain speed.

And i will not leave your RENDER at the end comment alone.. Padding with ones and zeros at the end of the process is a HUGE waist of time.. WHY would anyone do this.

Jake I’m not sure why you have opted to become the 4k police but I am enjoying the debate.

Darin Wooldridge
Colorist / Technical Strategist
818-653-3918-cell
dwooldridge@mac.com
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[Darin Wooldridge]

Jake,

I guess you think 4k is overkill? 😉 Can I do it? Yes.. Do I charge more? Yes.

I’m a huge fan of matching the native file resolution through the post process.
Same as source, as much as possible! I try to only scale for final deliverables.
The few shots delivered to me as 4k dpx frames were for specific reasons. I agree with the editor and don’t feel he is being demanding at all. Especially if they pay the rate.

P.s.
The reasons for the 4k selects:
Pre timing VFX work / comps
huge blow ups to be done during the online via the color corrected files.

The majority of the project is a 2k pipeline only linking to the 4k files for render.

Not a big fan of the smoke and mirrors workflows.
Padding with ones and zeros to make a 4k file at the back end is not something I will ever do.
OK, Maybe on a big budget film to match in some red and a pinch of alexa a dash of 5d with a truck load of 4k scans. The big guns use it all and expect the latest and greatest.
4k now 10k soon. Seems like yesterday I was mastering to a D1. Like you, I thought that was as good as is gets. Then came HD and many said it would never make it. Now we have true 4k video cameras, 4k monitors, 4k projectors.

SD, HD, 2k, 4k, scope, flat, film, data, tape.. bring it on. The bigger the better. 🙂

Darin Wooldridge
Colorist / Technical Strategist
818-653-3918-cell
dwooldridge@mac.com
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[Darin Wooldridge]

Hey Jake,

I’m working in 4k today.. For the web. lol 🙂 High resolution digital film killers are here. It will be a normal request in the near future.

4K is the new HD.

Darin Wooldridge
Colorist / Technical Strategist
818-653-3918-cell
dwooldridge@mac.com
check me out at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Davinci-Resolve-Colorist/117363011609028?ref=….