Jake Blackstone
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Seriously, what “due to the issues it has with FCP7”?
I’m using GT120 and I have ZERO issues with FCP 7 with Baselight Editions, Twixtor and even Neat Video plugins.
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I tried to remove GT120 and use just GTX 570 3GB. As a result Resolve’s performance dropped down considerably in comparison to just a single GTX 570.
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Juan.
I’m running 10.8.2 on Mac 4.1 with GT120 and GTX570 3GB. On FCP 7.0.3 I run Baselight Editions, Twixtor and even Neat Video among other with absolutely ZERO problems. Never EVER I had even one dropped frame. Your account of dropped frames as a result of simply use GT120 makes no sense, as FCP doesn’t use ANY GPU acceleration. Of coarse your GT120 may have a problem, but it doesn’t mean, that ALL GT120 do.
Sorry, but your “facts” are old wives’ tale not based in fact. -
What exactly is wrong with GT120? Had been using it for over two years with no issues whatsoever. Should I worry?
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Yes, you can take your chances or you could spend $40 on GT120 and use approved hardware instead. Is $40 worth the possibility of drama of crashing and burning? I guess, if you feel like living on the edge, don’t let me stop you…
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That’s what I thought:-)
Why do it, when all you have to do is to just wait a little for BM to bless the new OS and CUDA and all is good.
ESPECIALLY, if you’re going to do “several long form projects in the near future”. Have you done an exhaustive testing of Resolve under various operating conditions, with various codecs, with various deliverables, with various panels etc? Just leave the qualifying of the OS and other important bits to professionals.
You think you’re doing public good, but in reality, it is never a good idea to disregard manufacturers recommendations… -
Is there specific reason why you rushed to do the OS and CUDA update before the official blessing from BM?
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Yes, I’ll be at NAB. I’ll visit BM booth, as I always do and no, I have no plans to chat with Grant. BM bought DaVinci lock, stock and barrel and as a private company BM can do whatever they want to do with it. So, at the time of celebration and euphoria, Grant said this:
“The days of closed-off systems are over. I’ve never liked them from the start, and I’m not about to do that now just because we’ve got DaVinci as one of our product lines. I’d like to see it opened up to all sorts of friends and enemies, you know. They’re not enemies, but competitors.”
And look where we now. The only third party companies, that allowed inside Resolve are the panel manufacturers. But even then, only as a second class citizens.
If that doesn’t seem, just like paying a lip service, I don’t know what is. -
Look into Baselight Editions. It does pretty much all you had mentioned and does it very well I may add.
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Thank you for your response Juan. I actually don’t disagree with you as much as it may seem from my earlier post. Yes, it may be a bit contradictory to “to ask about changes, changes, changes and then complain that there are too many updates”. What I meant, when I posted my rant is I would like real meaningful updates to the colorist toolbox. Weekly codec and stability improvement updates are not it.
As Giustavo correctly points out, BM is a hardware company. I would even propose, that BM makes absolutely NO money on Resolve. Resolve Lite and free Resolve licenses with the every BMCC camera pretty much says it loud and clear. I happen to subscribe to the idea, that all BM design decisions are made with an eye on the hardware sales. Doesn’t BM’s decision to not to map LOG controls on the third party panels gives you a pause? It did for me. I don’t like it one bit. It is clearly a political and not a technical one. As you can probably see yourself with Baselight Editions on FCP or AVID, MC Color panel is a dream to use. All controls are bidirectional, moving a pot on a panel moves the corresponding display. Selecting PG2 for example immediately takes you to the shapes display. LOG grading-CG1 (Film grading) mapped out and works just like one should expect it to work. Exposure, contrast, saturation and all three pivots are all mapped out. CG2 takes you to video grade. and so fourth.Why can’t Resolve do that?
So, once you realize, that all BM wants to do is to sell the hardware, everything immediately falls in place and all BM’s Resolve decisions start making sense, unfortunately…