Jonathon Lee
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Just tried this staying at 10.6.8 and it did not work. I messed up my time machine backup so I cannot roll back. Time Machine IS a very good idea. Use it!
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Wow, I’m stumped then… my setup is…
Mac Pro 5,1 24gb RAM, 10.6.8
slot-1 ATI 5770
slot-2 Q4000
slot-3 Kona 3
slot-4 Atto 42ESThe ATI & Q4 show up as x16.
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Yep that is the one!
This was the quote I was talking about… anyhow, I’d really like to get my smoke and resolve running with one set of HW. I’m grateful about the upcoming AVID/Euphonix Color panel support. One thing at a time. I’d actually rather have AD support the Decklink line, then Resolve support the Kona, but at this point I’ll take either.
Just really looking forward to R8. All of the beta guys have been raving like mad about it.
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—Smoke is the only software I have ever seen that runs on the Mac that supports capture and playback of video, but does not let you use any video hardware to capture and or playback video.
I think this is really bad, as it cripples what people can do in their workflow. We are talking with them, and it’s looking good, but please help us by letting Autodesk know if your using other brand video cards and want them to work.
Could you imagine buying some software and then finding it only prints on a single model from a single brand of printer? It would be weird.
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I wonder if it’s a weird power supply issue? I have a 5,1 12-core 2.66GHZ, ATI5770 slot-1, Q4000 slot-2… so this should work. Another wild guess is that there may be a power supply or power connector issue. When I installed the Q4000 card the first time I forgot to connect the power connector to it, so it showed up to the system, but was unavailable as a GPU to Resolve. If something happened with 1) the aux power connector OR 2) power traces on the PCIe 16x slot OR 3) power traces on the Q4000 card itself, then the card will show up but NONE of the CUDA chips will power up.
The card, AFAIK, needs power from the PCIe bus and the aux power connector.
What makes me suspicious is that the card is showing up as 1x in the 16x slot, but 4x in the 4x slot. This could indicate a PCIe bus power issue on the 2nd 16x slot or on the card. You mentioned that the Q4000 in the slot-1 position was “ok”. Did you swap out the power connectors of the ATI and the Q4?
Try swapping the aux power connectors to see if the problem follows these cables.
– Jonathon
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I agree Stuart. I have a Resolve with no I/O living in a box with Smoke + kona 3. I’d switch to a Decklink, but I don’t think Autodesk will ever switch to use the BM. Resolve is amazing and nothing can touch it at it’s current price — and at higher price points is just as good as any other. I use Scratch & Linux Resolve and Mac Resolve holds it’s own for sure.
At one point Grant said he would support the K3. In fact he posted an open letter on the cow and he made an analogy about i/o boards and computer printers that made sense… “Why would you restrict what printer you would use…” or something like that.
I’m also eagerly awaiting support for my CP200 series panels too!! But, I will settle for Kona support so I can get my Smoke/Resolve rig firing on all cylinders.
– J
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I have a similar setup, except on my system I do not have the Decklink i/o card (don’t ask, too hard to explain!).
I had a difficult time getting the Quadro 4000 setup initially. But it’s all working well now. Just for kicks, try this:
-pul out all of the cards except the ATI
-reset NVRAM several times (at least 4) SHUT DOWN & restart holding down cmd+opt+P+R
– After NVRAM is reset, install ONLY Quadro 4000 cardCheck to see if the card has returned to x16 speed. If so, add back one card at a time… storage card, then the decklink.
A shot in the dark, but this is what I’ve had to do to clear PCI issues.
– Jonathon
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I don’t think there is a trial version as of yet. I’ve been using Revival for about 5 years and it is a very powerful application. We use it for restoring old 35mm film footage as well as fixing digital issues on new footage.
As far as HW configs. Ours was one of the older turnkey systems. It looks like it’s “bring your own hardware” now. Our’s is built around a Supermicro MOBO and and rackmount chassis. The system must have an Nvidia GPU. The PDF I have is from 2009 so it’s not worth much now.
But… fast Xeon CPU’s… biggest and fastest you can afford. 6-core Westmere I’d recommend. The app uses Hyper Threading. You will also want LOTS of RAM. As much as you can fit on the MOBO. 24Gigs MIN if you are doing batch stuff.
Fast storage. Ours is on a Bright ADIC-based SAN. You can use with direct attached storage as well as TCP.
Best with Fibre Channel or SAS RAIDS. Storage for these systems is it’s own separate drama fest.
It runs on Linux (Centos now, not longer Redhat Ent) … boo!!! yay!! Great and sucky all at the same time.
I’m praying for a Mac version, but whatever.
On Revival Pro you get unlimited network processing… so if you do tons of batch processing (only on the Pro version) you can set up a nice render farm with only the cost of the HW.
The batch processing uses is multi-processor w/HT. Some of the algorithms are very processor intensive so having lots of cores available on a small or big cluster is great (or a must depending on home much work you do).
Go for it man… you’ll never look back!!
– Jonathohn
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QT Player X can be problematic. Make sure you have QT 7 player installed. Use the v7 player. Here is a link to the apple support site…
https://support.apple.com/kb/DL923
– Jonathon
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Totally agree with you. I use scratch too and they have a great UI. I really wish there was better support for on-screen adjustments for color AND formatting. Need much better framing controls on the UI.
– Jonathon
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Yes, OFX support please.