[John Pilgrim]

I just want to know when BMD will lower the price and open up the sales channels for Linux Resolve, so I don’t have to deal with Windose.

(Yes, I’ve read the threads about how much intricate configuration the Resolve Linux VARs perform. I’m sure most of us here could hack our way through it, especially with our mutual collective support.)

[John Pilgrim]

[Laco Gaal] “it says “new” in the store.
But I don’t know what has changed…”

Seemingly different chips but still from the Westmere family, not Sandy Bridge E.
That means we retain dual Westmeres’ max 40 channels of PCI-E bandwidth,
probably still laid out x16 x16 x4 x4.
No (meaningful) motherboard or case updates.

Cubix, HP, Asus and Supermicro are happy today.

[John Pilgrim]

[Colin Travers] “I am actually now curious if i could replace my 120 with a 4000 or would the power drain be too much on the system based on my specs listed below?”

GT120 50 watts TDP
Quadro 4000 142 watts TDP
GTX580 244 watts TDP
So going to a Q4000 you’d be increasing your max power consumption by 92 watts.

FWIW, the MacPro power supply (661-5449) is rated at 980 watts.

[John Pilgrim]

GT120 + Q4000 cuts my GPU power in half in order to regain in-spec GUI. An interesting trade off.

If I went Slot1 Q4000 GUI and Slot2 Q4000 GPU, will Resolve use any of the GUI Q4000 for GPU processing (in addition to the dedicated GPU Q4000) or will it only use the dedicated GPU Q4000?

[John Pilgrim]

Well then I’m really glad 2xQ4000+GT120 works as well as it does!!

[John Pilgrim]

Thank you Joseph!

I will RTFM re “group”. (Sometimes it’s just a matter of knowing the correct terminology.)

I assume appending nodes to grouped clips will not overwrite the existing nodes on the individual clips.

[John Pilgrim]

Juan,
The screen shots show both the Resolve clip (input transform) and track modes (output transform) modes.
Neither shows the FCP transforms.

Thoughts?

[John Pilgrim]

Eric,

I guess my main question is “Are the FCP motion tab settings (that come over in the XML) viewable numerically anywhere in the Resolve UI, or are they kept behind the scenes and applied in the viewer and during render?

Secondly, what is the order of operations: are the FCP settings applied before or after the Resolve Format tab settings? (I guess I could test this myself with some translation and rotations in FCP and in Resolve, but I’m interested in gathering the wisdom here.)

John

[John Pilgrim]

Thanks Juan, but I’m not sure you understood my post.

None of the settings in the FCP motion tab are visible in Resolve where you referred me or anyplace else that I can find. The screen shot below is for the same clip, starting in FCP and conformed in Resolve, having selected “Use Sizing Information” in the Resolve “Load XML” dialog.

The manual is Summer 2011 (support page says 10 Feb 2012) but the software is 05 March 2012, hence my request for any documentation of the new changed features.

[John Pilgrim]

I recently wrote a Python script to import clip logging data that my clients had entered into a Google spreadsheet.

Export the spreadsheet data as a CSV file, do a tiny bit of cleanup in a text editor, and run the script. The script converts the CSV entries into an XML file of an FCP bin containing all the clips, with the Clip Name, Reel, Log Note, Description, Master Comment 1-4, et al columns populated with the data from the spreadsheet. Import the XML into FCP, reconnect the media, and viola, all the logged clips are right there.

Caveats:
(A.) The script is designed for a file-based workflow, as the footage for the current project originated on an EX1. It could theoretically be expanded to include TC IN and OUT for tape-based logging, but I’d leave that up to you.
(B.) It’s a command line script with no GUI. If you’re comfortable typing something like
python csv2xml.py path/to/loggingdata.csv path/to/mynewbin.xml
in the Terminal, then check out the script: https://johnpilgrim.net/color/csv2xml.html

Feature requests are welcome, but please be circumspect that this is simply a quick in-house workflow tool that I’m sharing, not a commercial product. I will keep working on it as time permits. Better documentation is the first task!

Cheers,
John
SF, CA