[Tom Sefton] “m still really intrigued to know what money you need to spend elsewhere to get real-time playback on full quality 5K Red raw footage with a single colour correction layer. And playback on a 5K monitor.”
For the last two weeks I was doing it with 6K WS HELIUM for a full feature.
The workstation was a beast. An HP Z840 w/32GB RAM and K5000 card.
It was paired with a nMP D700 w/64GB RAM and that actually worked in Resolve timelines easily (as well as Avid the host NLE).
But all that was using HD playback (Flanders, OSEE and Eizo CG247X).
I have an LG 4K to work with but to date I cant really see the advantage (other than 1:1 viewing) using a small 4K display.
I find it best to use something over 65″ for that kind of viewing.
That HP was a ton of money that I would have thrown at the new iMac.
Crossing fingers a client brings one for me to play with 🙂