[John Sellars]

Did anyone else see the consumer 4k HDR LG G6 OLED (about $6000 for the 55″) display at the Flanders booth with their new BoxIO LUT box?

[John Sellars]

This was incredibly useful. Did it move somewhere? p135 of the manual says it’s there.

[John Sellars]

Just finished a job like this. Some observations:

h.264 footage will be 1 to 8 frames off (maybe more) due to long GOP errors.

Flopped clips will not come in flopped.

Export an AAF from Resolve, as well as an XML. Sometimes it works better back in Premiere.

[John Sellars]

I had to go to 10.9.4 with my 780/6GB… and it was flashed!

[John Sellars]

Got it. I knew there was a reason I went to 24GB when I got my 6GB GPU 😉

Just want to make sure we’re in the the spirit of the OP here, where the 6D has a max raw resolution of 1840×460 @24fps…

[John Sellars]

I have never seen Resolve use more than 8GB of RAM. I just did a test where I loaded up a 5K Epic job in a 4K timeline at full debayer and this is the result:

I realize this is comparing a 2012 memory usage to a 2008, but on my ’08 I never saw Resolve (v10) use more than 8 GB. Also this test is with a few nodes and no OFX.

Is there something I’m missing here? I have enclosed my cuda-z report below if it helps. Eric, I would defer to your superior technical knowledge here, but I just don’t see the advantage of that much expensive ($400 for 16GB) RAM for this old rig…

2012 12 core
24GB RAM
GTX 780 6GB (flashed)
10.9.4
Resolve 11.0.0b.049

CUDA-Z Report
=============
Version: 0.8.207 https://cuda-z.sf.net/
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.9.4 13E28
Driver Version: 8.26.26 310.40.45f01
Driver Dll Version: 6.0
Runtime Dll Version: 5.50

Core Information
—————-
Name: GeForce GTX 780
Compute Capability: 3.5
Clock Rate: 1019.5 MHz
PCI Location: 0:8:0
Multiprocessors: 12 (2304 Cores)
Therds Per Multiproc.: 2048
Warp Size: 32
Regs Per Block: 65536
Threads Per Block: 1024
Threads Dimensions: 1024 x 1024 x 64
Grid Dimensions: 2147483647 x 65535 x 65535
Watchdog Enabled: Yes
Integrated GPU: No
Concurrent Kernels: Yes
Compute Mode: Default
Stream Priorities: No

Memory Information
——————
Total Global: 4096 MiB
Bus Width: 384 bits
Clock Rate: 3004 MHz
Error Correction: No
L2 Cache Size: 48 KiB
Shared Per Block: 48 KiB
Pitch: 2048 MiB
Total Constant: 64 KiB
Texture Alignment: 512 B
Texture 1D Size: 65536
Texture 2D Size: 65536 x 65536
Texture 3D Size: 4096 x 4096 x 4096
GPU Overlap: Yes
Map Host Memory: Yes
Unified Addressing: No
Async Engine: Yes, Unidirectional

Performance Information
———————–
Memory Copy
Host Pinned to Device: 5716.71 MiB/s
Host Pageable to Device: 2275.52 MiB/s
Device to Host Pinned: 6157.85 MiB/s
Device to Host Pageable: 2256.33 MiB/s
Device to Device: 99.8607 GiB/s
GPU Core Performance
Single-precision Float: 2911.24 Gflop/s
Double-precision Float: 208.966 Gflop/s
32-bit Integer: 826.645 Giop/s
24-bit Integer: 836.694 Giop/s

Generated: Fri Sep 5 11:54:28 2014

[John Sellars]

I believe that buying RAM for the OP’s rig is the only thing that is throwing good money after bad. I had 12GB on my 2012 12 core for quite a while and never had an issue with it. Just don’t have many programs open at once. Sounds like he just needs to play nice with HD for now.

Buying a new GPU and hard drives, OTOH, can be moved to a 2010-2012 Mac Pro, if he decides to go that route…

[John Sellars]

Unfortunately, memory is expensive for that box now, but add 8GB if you can. 8GB will run you $200. I used to have that model, and I had no problem adding 8GB to the 4GB for a total of 12GB. Check online or call OWC for optimum slot placement.

ML raw files are about 85MB/s, which is high for a single drive. Add 3 drives internal and RAID 0. Partition your current boot drive, and/or replace it with an SSD. I put my SSD boot drive in the lower optical bay, and had a 4 drive RAID 0 (450MB/s), but you also have the option of putting your user folder on a spinner and have the 3 drive RAID.

If you are considering the GTX 680 Mac Edition with 2GB, check out the macvidcards 4GB on eBay.

[John Sellars]

Is it a multiclip (or “multicam”) project? One must collapse clips AND media manage them before exporting an XML.

See this thread and some others on BMD forum I think: https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/277/16080#16085

An EDL usually works without MM, but you will lose size and speed info, and will have to bring in a separate EDL for each track.

This is a known issue for Avid AAF also…

[John Sellars]

Have the editor bake the jpegs into a QT and replace in the timeline before export.