Eric Hansen
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You don’t need a crossover ethernet cable. Macs can autosense.
I’m pretty sure that if you had 8x4TB Hitachis in a RAID5 via SAS, it would throw out the same numbers as the Velociraptor RAID. prolly around 700MB/s. But i’ve never worked with VR drives before. If you need massive speed, look at SSDs.
I used to grade in a facility that was primarily 1GbE. i installed a 4 drive RAID0 in the Resolve Mac Pro, which gave me a scratch with about 500MB/s. I would leave all the source files on the SAN, since it was all compressed formats and 100MB/s of 1GbE was plenty fast. But then I did all my renders (and the Render Cache) to the internal RAID0.
the bottleneck for me was actually the GPU (single GTX580). If i had a Cubix with multiple GPUs, then I would have gotten a bigger SAS attached RAID and used that as my main volume and wouldn’t have even messed with the SAN. 10GbE is a great option, but for hooking 2 computers together is kind of expensive, about $800 each for 10GbE cards in each machine.
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Eric Hansen
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the 2009 or 2010 Mac Pro has a significantly faster bus and much cheaper RAM than the 2008 for very little extra money.
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Eric Hansen
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I have the same Mac Pro and use it everyday, so I wouldn’t worry about upgrading the machine at this time, but just about everything else should be upgraded as Paul points out.
Don’t go to Mavericks yet, you’ll just cause yourself (possible) headaches because it’s too new. I had one client upgrade his system on the first day and he really screwed up the system – none of his third party stuff was working correctly, even when he installed the 10.9 specific drivers/apps from the vendors. It always takes a few months for new OS versions to shake out.
If you’re serious about Resolve, the next thing I would upgrade after the RAM is the GPU. your 120/4k combo will feel like a dog. search this forum for advice on the cards.
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hey Dwaine
I’ve been using Eucon 2.7.1 and Resolve Lite 9.1.4 on my work Mac Pro with no issues. Today I upgraded to Resolve Lite 9.1.6 and I’m getting the exact same problem as the OP. the panel works with Resolve. But if i switch away from Resolve to another app and switch back, the panel won’t reconnect and the top menu on the panel is just rectangles. Just going to Finder requires a restart of Resolve.
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Eric Hansen
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hey Margus
are you using the Eizo’s built-in calibration sensor?
Which Lightspace components are you using, so I can price out your setup?
I’ve never used the Eizo monitors, but I’ve heard good things.
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Eric Hansen
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I have to disagree. Just because your clients and their customers are viewing on crap, doesn’t mean you should be grading on crap. You need to have a stable reference so when your client calls and complains about the blacks you can say, no, they are correct on my monitor, it’s your monitor that is wrong. Otherwise you will be second guessing yourself constantly and chasing your tail. I tried to go the cheap way out in the past and it drove me nuts because I never knew if what I was looking at was correct.
If you’re delivering mostly for web, then you can get away with a computer monitor. But it still needs to be calibrated so you can be confident in what you’re grading. No matter what display technology you choose, it must be calibrated otherwise there’s no point.
I’d say you can double check your work on a monitor like your client’s, but I would never grade on one. If their monitor skews green and yours skews magenta and you grade with that, then the image will be even more green on the client monitor than it would be if your monitor was correct. Working with this much variance is not what professionals do.
Eric Hansen
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that’s a very broad question. Also, Resolve 10 has a lot of tweaks for 4k and new GPU cards, so it makes a lot of sense to wait and see what hardware works best with this new software.
what is your source? 4k R3Ds, 4k XAVC, 4k DPX, 4k ProRes? each of these will tax a different part of your system, requiring different configs depending on which you are working with the most. If it’s mostly R3Ds, you will want to wait for Resolve to add GPU-based R3D debayering, since RED has recently announced that they’re making debayering available for GPUs, which will save you the cost of buying a RED Rocket. if it’s 4k DPX, then you will need about $20k for fast enough storage. if it’s XAVC or ProRes, you will need to beef up your CPU (and you might want to lean towards Mac if you’re doing mostly ProRes). either way, you will need some awesome GPUs. i would look at Titans.
$3500 is NOT too much money for 4k. depending on what you want to do, be prepared to spend much more.
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Eric Hansen
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since a price has not been announced for the new Mac Pro, I would wait and see what that is. BMD is saying Resolve performance is pretty good on test machines.
But a DIY Windows system could give you a lot of performance for $3500. You could load up on more GPU cards, which the new Mac Pro won’t allow.
Another thing to consider would be a used current or last gen Mac Pro. Currently a 2009 8 core from Mac Of All Trades is only $1200. I have this machine at work and at home (home machine purchased from Mac of All Trades) and it can handle everything I throw at it. The only downside is lack of PCI slots, which has me looking at the Windows DIY route.
if $3500 includes storage and monitoring, then you’re not going to have enough money.
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Eric Hansen
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hey Richard
9.1.6 will work with EuCon 2.7.1 also. Do you need 3.0? If you just have the Artist Color board and you just use it for grading, then the 3.0 upgrade doesn’t include anything you need, AFAIK. Can you downgrade to 2.7.1?
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Eric Hansen
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I haven’t had issues over unmanaged ethernet SAN. i wonder if its a permissions issue since it sounds like you’re switching between locked and unlocked volumes. Maybe Resolve has an issue with Read-Only media (which seems really strange to me). Are you writing DNX back to the volume, or something more metadata intensive like DPX? Might want to repost over in SAN networks and see if Jim from Facilis has any answers.
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Eric Hansen
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