[David Baud]

Never mind! I messed up with the PlayHeads feature and it looks like I was trying to grade a shot that was setup for reference and not to work on. I think now I will remember my mistake 😉

Sorry for the bandwidth,

David Baud
Post & VFX
KOSMOS PRODUCTIONS
Denver – Paris
http://www.kosmos-productions.com

[David Baud]

If you recorded AVCHD into your DVD disc, you might need a computer Blu-ray player to be able to play it again.
In other words the player needs to be able to read HD video from your DVD disc. Originally DVD standard was for recording SD video. With some recent burner/player you can record HD video but this is more the exception than the rule.

HTH,

David Baud
Post & VFX
KOSMOS PRODUCTIONS
Denver – Paris
http://www.kosmos-productions.com

[David Baud]

Do you need to deliver an interlaced master in SD?

In any case I would de-interlace your footage in the AE “interpret window” before doing any compositing work.
If you need to re-introduce interlacing for your render, you can do that in the output module.

David Baud
Post & VFX
KOSMOS PRODUCTIONS
Denver – Paris
http://www.kosmos-productions.com

[David Baud]

[Ryan Plant] “s the CUDA requirement something to more recent versions? If so, what’s the latest version that can be run on an ATI consumer GPU?”

A few months ago, my NVIDIA GTX 570 failed. I was in the middle of a project and could not have it fixed right away. To my surprise, I was able to run Resolve with my ATI Radeon HD 5770 under Mountain Lion (10.8) operating system. Don’t expect much realtime in HD format, but at least it allowed me to complete some work.

I hope this helps,

David Baud
Post & VFX
KOSMOS PRODUCTIONS
Denver – Paris
http://www.kosmos-productions.com

[David Baud]

Hello Bernardo,

There is two power supply ports on the logic-board. The ATI needs only one power connection whereas the nVidia needs two. So one power port goes to the nVidia and the second power port is split between the nVidia and the ATI. (you need a power adapter Y-splitter) What you need to make sure is that all your PCI cards are not drawing power over the PCi-Expres spec. limit. Using a little software utility like iStat you can easily monitor the power draw on your PCI bus.

I hope this help,

David Baud
Post & VFX
KOSMOS PRODUCTIONS
Denver – Paris
http://www.kosmos-productions.com

[David Baud]

[Lee Warner] “Mac Pro has the stock ATI 5770 & Nvidia currently isn’t in the budget.
HD-SDI is done via a Matrox MXO2 and outputted to a FSI monitor.

Is it worth installing Resolve?”

Here is my system:
MacPro 4,1
ATI Radeon HD 5770
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570
Decklink Studio
FSI 2450 monitor via HD-SDI

I usually run DaVinci Resolve 9 with this system. Recently I had the nVidia card that failed. I was in the middle of a grading project and I sent the card back to EVGA for replacement. To my surprise I was able to run Resolve with just the ATI card: I did not get the realtime I would get with the nVidia card in but I was able to work. One requirement was to run Mountain Lion (I checked with 10.7.5 and it did not work). So in your case the only question would be to find out if Matrox MXo2 would work with Resolve… which I don’t think is officially supported for some obvious reason 😉

Good luck,

David Baud
Post & VFX
KOSMOS PRODUCTIONS
Denver – Paris
http://www.kosmos-productions.com

[David Baud]

Do you have any of these artifacts on your original footage?
What is your project setting? are you working in 8-bit? what is your color space?

I would try to work in 16-bit at least.

David Baud
Post & VFX
KOSMOS PRODUCTIONS
Denver – Paris
http://www.kosmos-productions.com

[David Baud]

[Robin Erard] “My computer : MacPro 2×2.26GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
16Go 1066 MHz DDR3

The process for the last feature I encoded (1h30 – 1.85 1998×1080) was less than 3h30 hours.”

Thank you Robin for your test and the information: I guess I was quite off base with my timing 🙂
Good to know! I am wondering if EasyDCP creator is faster than some other solutions out there?

Merci,

David Baud
Post & VFX
KOSMOS PRODUCTIONS
Denver – Paris
http://www.kosmos-productions.com

[David Baud]

[Milton Whitaker] “I actually already rendered a 29.97 file with pulldown but when I imported it into Premiere to check it, I still found the repeating frames.”

Yes this is the way it works 🙂 The problems you might encounter really depend on the type of footage you are working with: pan and quick motion might be the most difficult conversions with pulldown.

David Baud
Post & VFX
KOSMOS PRODUCTIONS
Denver – Paris
http://www.kosmos-productions.com

[David Baud]

[Robin Erard] ” It’s not so long to render in JPEG2000″

I am curious about your statement here… could you give us an idea of rendering time with the spec. of your system? I have never done a DCP myself before, but I just had one done recently and I understand the lab we used have a render farm to speed up the process. I have read a single fast computer system could process 2K film into JPEG2000 @ 1 frame/second. Which is still 36 hours of rendering time for a 90 min. film!

If it is the case I am not sure I see the advantage to use Resolve for that purpose. In any case wouldn’t it make more sense to keep an uncompressed output master from DaVinci for keeping the delivery choices open without taxing Resolve?

Thanks,

David Baud
Post & VFX
KOSMOS PRODUCTIONS
Denver – Paris
http://www.kosmos-productions.com