[Jonathon Lee]

ATI 5770 is double slot… I’m using 5770 + Q4000. It’s OK, but initial installation was a bit of a PIA.

[Jonathon Lee]

Like the new Baselight for Final Cut?

[Jonathon Lee]

Yeah, sadly there is not really any compositing in Resolve. The matte thing is basically used for isolating grades… really cool if you are working with CG elements.

Scratch is the same way… we all want compositing and text… so DS and smoke is basically the best thing if you need to do “finishing” BUT… those systems are not designed for doing color work like a true grading app… on one system we have a Scratch & DS… and on another we have Davinci and Smoke… and we also have a Linux Davinci… I wish there was one solution… well if you have a lot of $$$ you can get a Flame Premium.

[Jonathon Lee]

That is more or less true…. sort of.

Except some cards that are PC only have been “flashed” so that they can be used on a Mac. Even ones that were never intended for mac… such as some of the GTX cards. I actually have a GTX285 card that was originally a PC card. If you “look” around on blogs you will find some who have gotten GTX470 & GTX480 cards to work under OSX. There were never any “mac” drivers written for these cards. I was just wondering if anyone had done this with any of the other Quadro cards.

[Jonathon Lee]

RAID HDD’s… I’ve been dealing with this extensively of late. For a RAID to be used with high resolution video and image sequences the best type of HDD’s to use are SAS and Fibre Channel. However, for most of us this is not feasible. Realistically what we end up using are SATA HDD’s.

In my experience some HDD’s are better then others and some should be avoided completely for RAID use. Here is a list of HDD’s that I’ve had success with in a Proavio 4-Bay RAID 5 and in Infortrend Enstor 8 & 16 bay 4-gbps FC-SATA RAID boxes.

Western Digital RE-4
Some of the older series WD HDD’s are ok… RE-2, RE-3, but are not made any more.

DO NOT USE the caviar black, blue OR GP series. Even the RE-4GP. Yes, there is a huge difference in the RE-4 & the RE-4GP. I’m not sure of the specific technical reasons, but it has something to do with the error recovery modes of those HDD’s that make them incompatible with many RAID controllers. Something to do with “recovery time out durations”.

Hatachi Ultrastar. The Ultrastar line is their enterprise version. Do not use thee deskstar line in a RAID-5.

Seagate Constellation ES Series… yes Seagate. Do not use the Baracuda drives… Actually the ES & ES.2 series of Seagate HDD’s are actually pretty good. I’ve used them successfully. But yes any of the 7200.x HDD’s seem to be problematic.

So to sum up…

WD RE-4
Hatachi Ultrastar
Seagate Constellation ES

All of those HDD’s have great performance and have 5 year warranties. These HDD’s are considerably more expensive then their “desktop” counter parts. The 2TB versions run about $240/ea.

– Jonathon

[Jonathon Lee]

Of course this is my primary “new feature” request!

[Jonathon Lee]

I tried using the command from the terminal… For some reason, it won’t take any of the modifications I make. I’m not much a a CL guy. Is there a “for dummies” app with a GUI that makes this easier for the average joe?

Also, on another note… who do I direct Revival feature requests to?

thanks,

Jonathon

[Jonathon Lee]

Looks like a nice tool… more towards the price range of a Scratch system then a Mac Resolve.

It’s great that there are so many evolved color tools around.

[Jonathon Lee]

GT8800 has 112 CUDA cores.

[Jonathon Lee]

It should run, but you will take a performance hit. Not sure how much? It may effect realtime playback. I think that BM has tried to optimize for max performance because they are pushing the systems to the limit with regard to moving data around.

The performance hit will probably be more noticiable if you are using formats that need to be decoded on the CPU… pro res, DNX, r3d (w/o RR).