Dwaine Maggart
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The ATI Radeon HD5770 card is supported by Resolve on Mac platforms. Your problem is probably related to the 1GB of VRAM that is on the card. For HD resolution work, 2GB would be better. If you are working with higher than HD resolution files, that will definitely be a problem with the 1GB of VRAM.
See the Resolve Mac Config guide on the BMD web site for supported cards on Mac.
Dwaine Maggart
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The GTX680 card has a pair of 6 pin power connectors. So no adapters required. If you don’t already have a pair of Aux power cables with the Mac, you would likely need to acquire those from somewhere, as they won’t come with the card. So this card fits nicely inside the Mac.
I did a recent test between a GTX580 and a GTX680 in a Cubix Desktop 4 expansion chassis, using Resolve 9.0.4 and the Standard Candle 9 test, with a 5,1 MacPro running OS X 10.8.2 and the NVIDIA 304.00.05f02 GPU driver with CUDA 5.0.37, and an HD5770 GUI card in the Mac. I had “Use optimized display mode during playback” enabled.
On the 16 blur test, the 580 card had 13 FPS playback. The 680 card had 14 FPS playback.
On the 1 NR2 test, the 580 card had 13.5 FPS playback. The 680 card had 11 FPS playback.
So the 680 appears slightly better with blur and the 580 is slightly better with NR.
Based on this, it would seem like the 680 inside the Mac would have better performance than the 570 inside the Mac.
Your mileage may vary…
Dwaine Maggart
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Dwaine Maggart
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CUDA is a NVIDIA GPU processing technique. A similar thing on the AMD side is OpenCL. Resolve works best with CUDA. Resolve can work with OpenCL cards, but only on Mac and at a reduced performance level, and lack of some features, such as Noise Reduction.
Not all cards of either type support either mode adequately for Resolve. That’s why you need to look in the Resolve Config guide to see actual tested and recommended cards.
For example, your HD3850 card will not run OpenCL adequately for Resolve, assuming you even have a Mac. On Windows, no AMD card will work with Resolve. You must use supported NVIDIA cards in a Windows PC.
Resolve prefers a separate card for the GUI card (card which drives the display) and the GPU card (card which does the Resolve processing), but can work with a single card doing both things, at a reduced performance level. Resolve V9 has been optimized to better use a single card, so a single NVIDIA GTX580 would work well in a PC environment, but would require too much power to go inside a MacPro tower. A GTX570 works nicely for that.
Dwaine Maggart
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A larger problem is that Resolve will not run on a 2009 iMac due to it not having a supported GPU. You need at least a 2011 iMac for Resolve. Details are in the Mac Resolve Config guide on the BMD web site in the DaVinci Resolve support area.
Dwaine Maggart
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In V9, Batch Unlink is now called “Use Local Grades”. You can find this menu item by right clicking a thumbnail image on the Color page timeline. This only works for a conformed timeline, and will not work on the Master timeline.
Dwaine Maggart
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You normally do NOT need to see Resolve in the Eucon Preferences window.
You DO want to see your panel in the My Panels area of the Eucon Settings – Surfaces tab, and you want to see your Mac in the Eucon Settings – My Workstations tab.
Assuming you have that, and assuming you are using Resolve 9.0.3, go into Resolve Preferences, Control Panels, and select None. Save the Preferences and restart Resolve. Login and go back into Preferences and select Avid Artist Color. Save the Preferences and restart Resolve. The panel should now be working.
Dwaine Maggart
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The View / Reset UI menu should place the scopes back into the center of the GUI display. Is this not working?
Dwaine Maggart
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Hi Tom,
In the Project Manager window, hold down the Shift key, then right click in an empty area, and now you will see the Reset UI menu item. Select that, and your scopes should go back to the center of the primary GUI display.
Dwaine Maggart
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Javier, based on your and others reports about this, we are looking into it.
Not sure I understand your davincihelp comment. I don’t see anything there from you in regards to this issue. Did you send an email reporting this there? If you did, I apologize that we didn’t receive it for some reason.
Dwaine Maggart
Blackmagic Design DaVinci Support