[David Smith]

I see. Thanks.

I did a little Googling and found 2 websites selling Resolve 7 for about $300 dollars. 1 site I’m SURE is a scam. I’m not sure about the other one.

Could I still buy Resolve 7 then do the free update to 8? And if so would it be cheaper? Or are Resolve 7 and 8 both selling for the same price?

[David Smith]

I’m a first time Resolve buyer.

Are you saying I need to buy the v7 DVD and the dongle then do the free update to v8?

Is that what I’m actually seeing for sale at stores and online stores? v7? not v8? Meaning there is no v8 DVD for sale?

[David Smith]

Thanks just called them 🙂

[David Smith]

Thanks for the replies!

@Kevin, what you wrote in your first paragraph is what I’m looking to do.

From what I’m hearing I can probably do this with 1 graphics card. Since Resolve recommends the nVIDIA Quadro 4000, and since I will need that down the road, I’m thinking of getting one now to be sure that Resolve will work.

I thought about waiting for R8 Lite. But from what I understand it wont accept 2k and that is what my DPX files are.

Another question: If I replace my aging 4870 with the nVIDIA Quadro 4000 might I suddenly find applications that previously worked that will no longer work? I’m thinking about FCP 7, Maya 2011, After Effects CS4.

Thanks

[David Smith]

Thanks, it turns out Whipping Post is online only. But I spoke with them and they seem like good people.

Knowing of another Mac store in L.A. is good to know. Next time I’m near Melrose I’ll go and check them out.

[David Smith]

I’m finding that installing and running the Resolve 8 software is not as easy as Apple Color.

I’m being told that it needs a different video card than the one I have now (I now have a Radeon 4870), it also needs another Graphics Card – the Nvidia Quatro 4000 – and also the Blackmagic Decklink 3d Extreme (I have the Decklink Studio). I’m being told without all this the software will not run on my Mac Pro. So I’m not sure what I need to do to figure out my workflow and make ProRes exports from Resolve.

I will probably still order Resolve by the end of this week but I may not know if I can import the DPX and export ProRes without buying more hardware – which I don’t have the money for right now.

[David Smith]

I think I can. Thanks!

[David Smith]

My original format is 16mm.

“little-endian”

I’ve seen this term as I’ve been researching but am unsure what it means. I’ll do some more Googling on it. Would it mean changing the original files in some way?

The reason I don’t want to experiment with changing the original DPX files is simply it’s very expensive for each additional back up I make. I have 12TBs of files. It costs me $1,000 (in Hard Drives) for each copy of the files I make – at a time when I’m having all the film scanned at 2K $$$$….

I have 1 untouched set of DPX as a backup. But from that I have already done something that may or may not have been a big mistake. From the copy of the originals I have copied and pasted the camera rolls from the lab rolls into individual folders. Meaning instead of having 30 folders with DPX files and an hour attached to each. I have made 150 folders for each 200 foot camera roll (discarding the DPX files which are just leader – although I have saved those files separately) The time code is still there, but broken up.

By doing this. When there are scenes I want to conform later. I only have to transfer the needed 100 GB rolls into my system instead of the 500 GB reels. Some of the scenes are only 3 shots. So I will only have to copy 1 roll (1 hour HDD to HDD transfer) instead of the entire reel (5 hour HDD to HDD transfer).

It seemed to make sense to do this for organizational purposes but I’m not sure when I make the offline ProRes if finding the source will be more complicated – or impossible – because they are not in the original folders. I just don’t know…

I will confess…. When it comes to this area of film making I really don’t know what I’m doing!

[David Smith]

I’ll let you know on this thread when I experiment with the ProRes exports. Possibly as early as tomorrow if I buy Resolve here in L.A. or by the end of the week if I buy online from N.Y. – I haven’t decided yet if my not wanting to wait til the end of the week to get on with my project is worth $100 dollars in Calif. sales tax 🙂

[David Smith]

Thanks guys for all the answers! I’m really new to this area of film making and the help is greatly appreciated!