Jonathon Lee
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2 cheap and easy…
Cheapest…
1) DoReMi Labs has an FCP plugin for $1000 that does unencrypted DCP authoring.
2) DigitAll in australia has a PC based player that plays unencrypted DCP SMPTE and Interop for $250Better
Fraunhofer has a great package that is an amazing deal for the money. It is modular, if you get all the bells and whistles it’s about 10-12k… but you can get a basic setup fo unencrypted for about 4k. Really great software. It is as good or better then the “really high end” stuff. I’ve used them all and the Fraunhofer is my favorite.
easyDCP.
But the DoReMi + DigitalAll is the cheap and easy way to go.
– Jonathon
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I have 2 different FC RAID’s as direct attached storage. I have an Infortrend 8-bay fibre channel RAID and a 12-bay Xyratex fibre channel RAID. I connect to them with an ATTO 42-es. I’m pretty sloppy with the storage. I could actually get a lot more performance out of them If I worked at it a bit. At some point I may switch them over to an Xsan or Fibrejet so I can share them. I only have 750 GB ES.2 HDD’s which I’ll switch out with 2TB HDD’s as soon as the price for enterprise drives drops enough.
For DAS you are better of with SAS. Much less expensive and simpler to configure. Best bang for buck is an ATTO SAS RAID card with a used SAS chassis from ebay… load it with 1TB enterprise HDD’s.
Don’t bother with FC unless you need a SAN.
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I bought a “stock” new EVGA GTX570 2.5GB for use in a Mac Resolve. I had MacVidCards mod it with their firmware as it did not perform well prior to this. I replaced a GT120 + GTX285 combo… I use it as GUI + GPU as I wanted to get the PCI-e slot back. It’s at least as powerful as the 120/285 and I can render out larger frame sizes. I have been too busy to benchmark it.
GTX 570 is a great balance of GPU performance and system power draw. I’m actually running with a 2-1 power cable splitter too. It’s running in a 2010 12-core 2.66 Mac Pro. I use this machine for Resolve, AE, Symphony, Smoke & MC.
For Resolve I can get 24fps w/ 10-12 nodes and low NR at 1080p Pro Res. 4k Epic renders out at about 10fps at full quality (I think). DPX 4k renders out at about 200mb/s which is as fast as the storage usually likes to go.
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gallery software in the UK may have an app that does that…
gallery DOT co DOT uk
They started out making audio utilities, but have branched out into some broadcast and asset management stuff. They have a couple of recorder products.
– Jonathon
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The Kepler 600 series is not supported on OS X at all. This is an Apple & Nvidia issue. Hopefully eventually. Not sure how it will do on PC. I’m thinking of replacing a 285 I have in an HP with a 670…
As for a Mac based resolve. Your best compromise for CUDA processing, VRAM and power consumption is the EVGA GTX570 2.5GB with the MacVidCards firmware mod. There will be an issue with you using the 5870 with any Nvidia GPU installed in the Mac Pro… you will not have enough power or power connectors. Sadly you should loose the 5870 and get the 570 + nvidia GT120… or you can try what I did on my Mac Pro 112-core and just use the GTX 570 with NO separate GUI card. This is not a “supported” configuration, however, I get realtime performance with 24fps 1080 ProRes HQ. It is quite usable. But you will need the MacVidCards upgrade…. otherwise the card will run at basically half speed.
– Jonathon
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I’ll post a link later tonight. I’m on a different system right now. I actually found it in the adobe forum on the adobe website. I had to do like 3 file edits. but then it recognized it. Pretty simple. Frustrating that we need to do it at all. They all just seem to work with Resolve.
– Jonathon
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So the problem sounds like the cards. If you have “off the shelf” firmware on the cards they will only run at 2.5 GT… you need the MacVidCards firmware mod to run a “non-official” Nvidia card on a Mac at full speed. I went through this same thing. I bought an EVGA GTX 570 2.5GB card. I installed it in my mac pro and I hade similar performance to what you are getting. I’m not sure what is different about the card, however, it shows up to the system at full link speed on my 2010 12-core mac pro… where prior to the firmware mod it did not.
Anyhow, David Pirinelli (who is the MacVidCards guy) is on this forum often. Or you can do a google search for macvidcards. He did the mod on my card and it was totally worth it. It even works with the adobe mercury engine (I had to modify some system files to get the adobe stuff to recognize my card, but it worked).
Anyhow, this is why you are only getting OK performance with these cards on a Mac. If you drop them in a windows machine it will work without the mod.
– Jonathon
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Daddy
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Thanks Guys… this is the best forum… so much real knowledge here.
I think I’ll have to try the AAF route. It looks like something was botched with the tape names for the Alexa files during logging so I can’t go from MFX to AMA-link in Media Composer. I’ve never had to do this. The original EDL links OK to the QT media in Resolve.. that was the first thing I tried. Then i realized how much of a nightmare dealing with all of the stabilization, supers, etc was going to be. I’d really like to just relink the MC project to the QT’s… but someone else will be completing the job and they want just a SINGLE layer with everything rendered in… don’t ask… not my workflow idea.
I hope the AAF will take care of most everything.
thanks again,
Jonathon
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I had David P. flash my new egg EVGA GTX570 w/2.5 GB. I actually use this for resolve without a separate GUI card in a 12-core 2010 Mac Pro . I get 24fps with like 10-12 nodes with Pro Res HQ 1920×1080. Prior to the flash I got like 10-15 fps on pre-flashed card.
If you use resolve it seems to make a big diff. Power-wise it seems to run well. I’m even using a splitter for the power… a one into two… which if you don’t need it then connect it the “right way”. I have a Pro Tools HDX audio DSP card in the system which also requires a PCI-e power connection.
There’s also an LSI dual 4gb Fibre channel and a decklink cards + 4x enterprise HDD’ + 48gb ram. No issues yet.
Anyhow, the flash will run your card faster. DP is a cool dude. Use your second card in a cheap-o PC and make a resolve free DIT station.. that’s what I used my old 285 for. An HPz400 can be had for under 1k.