[Gary Adams]

Revival and rendering software only works on Linux for now. All sofware, both OS and application for the workstation and rendering is handled by the Revival install disk. No other software is necessary. Gary

Gary Adams
DaVinci Revival Product Manager
Blackmagic Design

[Gary Adams]

Hello Rishiraj. I have a few answers.

Resolve and Revival are separate software products. Revival has a different operating environment than Resolve and will not run on the same computer at the same time. Revival is Linux based and uses a different OS than Resolve. Revival is generally sold by specialized resellers who have the necessary knowledge about the Linux environment and hardware requirements. I have received a personal email from you and will respond in more detail directly.

Regards, Gary

Gary Adams
DaVinci Revival Product Manager
Blackmagic Design

[Gary Adams]

I should further clarify this. This feature was based upon the DaVinci versions of Resolve and Revival. Due to the accelerated development in Resolve, the ability for Revival to connect to the Resolve database is no longer available. We would like to see something take the place of this functionality in the future but when and how is to be determined. For now, the ability to remove some dirt along with noise reduction and stabilization is included within Resolve.

Regards, Gary

Gary Adams
DaVinci Revival Product Manager
Blackmagic Design

[Gary Adams]

Hi Jonathon. For sure, 4K will be slower. It is 4 times HD if you think about it. But your question makes sense. You may need to run 6 CPUs max for automatic processing given the RAM. To make sure you are not running into swap space, run “top” in a console shell and observe the swap space when the system is slow. There should not be any swap really. Once that happens, the system will definitely get slower than necessary. If you get into swap, the best way is to reboot and use fewer CPUs. If you notice this often, then adding more RAM will help.

Give me a call if you wish.

Regards, Gary

Gary Adams
DaVinci Revival Product Manager
Blackmagic Design

[Gary Adams]

Hi Jonathon. The OS for Revival is 64 bit. One thread can use up to 4GB and Revival is multi threaded. So when processing up to 2K material, we figure around 2GB per CPU or thread is useful. When working on 4K images and doing heavy processing like grain reduction, we like to see more RAM. The rule of thumb is about 2GB per core for up to 2K processing. One thing that limits RAM for Revival is doing any file copying outside of the application. The OS can buffer huge amounts of RAM that is not always released for other purposes. A check of “top” might be useful if you think you are running out of RAM. Also, when doing automatic processing in Revival, it is best to assign two less CPUs in the CPU Setup. This frees up some processing for the user interface. I think you are probably ok with the memory unless you are doing a lot of 4K work.

Hope this helps.

Gary

Gary Adams
DaVinci Revival Product Manager
Blackmagic Design

[Gary Adams]

Hi again Jonathon. I too answered in the DaVinci Forum. Revival only supports 8 and 10 bit DPX files. Gary

Gary Adams
DaVinci Revival Product Manager
Blackmagic Design

[Gary Adams]

Hi Jonathon. I’m sorry to say Revival does not support 16 bit images. Currently, only 8 and 10 bit DPX files.

Regards, Gary

Gary Adams
DaVinci Revival Product Manager
Blackmagic Design

[Gary Adams]

Hello Jonathon. This is the most asked question I get. The “Revival” product contains the base application and only the ROI Dirt and Dust, Reveal and Paint Brush, and Splice Repair tools found in the Interactive menu. The base application contains the UI for import/export, support for video I/O, scene cut detection. The “Revival Pro” product includes that plus every other tool in the application which we like to call automatic and interactive specialty tools.

We did the same thing at DaVinci but called it the Base Application and Revival Complete. We used to part out all the tools so this is a way of simplifying the product.

The primary reason for the “Revival” only product is manual touch up or finishing work. In a facility with multiple restoration seats, you may find a number of Revival Pro and another group of artists using the Revival only product doing the manual work necessary to make the image perfect.

So, if you are looking to do everything on one workstation, you would use Revival Pro.

Gary

Gary Adams
DaVinci Revival Product Manager
Blackmagic Design

[Gary Adams]

Porting Revival to the Mac is not trivial in the current architecture, so we do not expect to release a version like that soon. It doesn’t hurt to ask though.

Gary

Gary Adams
DaVinci Revival Product Manager
Blackmagic Design

[Gary Adams]

Back in my day which probably precedes just about everyone else’s day, all video sources had to be synchronous or they simply could not be used in a vision mixer type of device. With most modern effects type switchers having frame synchronizers, this is not totally necessary, however it is worth considering the side effects. Frame synchronizers will delay the incoming signal anywhere from their minimum to a full frame and this will continuously vary as the source sync drifts. Some people might notice the fact audio may get out of sync when this happens. Another side effect given all sources are slowly drifting about in time and the frame sync can only hold a frame of delay, when full, the buffer memory must drop back a field or frame causing a loss or jump in the image. It doesn’t happen very often but will happen. I may be the only one that can see it. All sources, camera and tape alike would do the same thing. So, if it is feasible, it is always best to lock all the devices.

Gary

Gary Adams
DaVinci Revival Product Manager
Blackmagic Design