Jonathon Lee
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Thanks Peter! That’s what I was looking for. So a GTX 570 w/ 2.5GB VRAM is almost good enough, but not quite? So the GTX 580 w/3072MB of VRAM is the magic card.
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Thanks Juan, I appreciate the info. I do understand that a Mac platform resolve has some limits.
Regardless of the platform, I’ve heard it mentioned that a certain amount of “GPU” RAM is required for 4k. I’m not sure if this is true or not. I’m wondering if 1GB of GPU ram is sufficient for any 4k work. It looks like 4k mono is supported on windows, but not stereo. I’d for sure be working in proxy mode, but when it’s time for final output at 4k are there specific GPU RAM requirements? What happens if there the GPU memory fills? Will there be a slow down or a crash? Is there a performance benefit to having more GPU RAM? Is there a correlation between number of nodes and GPU RAM?
If someone from BMD could answer that would be great.
thanks,
Jonathon
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I really like the H Z-series. I would have rather got the Z800, but way more $$$. The z400 is an amazing value for the money.
There are ways to share the storage, but yes, it is a bit complicated if you want simultaneous high-speed access from both. The quickest and simplest way is with FibreJet.. .but that is NOT cheap.
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Resolve runs really well under Windows. I run it under both and up until the recent Lion Nvidia driver update was going to switch to WIn7 100% due to GPU and system flexibility.
Also since editorial folks are trending away from FCP and towards Media Composer there is much less dependence on Mac OS based systems. Don’t get me wrong, I far prefer Mac OS over anything else, but that said just on a minimal system I’ve had great results with:
HP Z400 3.06 GHZ
GTX 285 (funny enough this is a Mac flashed version!)
Quadro 600 for GUI
24 GB RAM (6x 4gb DIMMS)
16-bay Infortrend FC RAID-6Love it.
Your cubix will run just fine on a newer HPZ400 which can be had for just over $1000 new…. They have (2) 16x PCI-E Gen2 slots.. along with (2) PCI (who cares), (1) 8x PCI-e Gen2 and (1) PCI-e 8x Gen1 slots.
You could have the GUI GPU, cubix host card 3GPU + RR, a storage HBA, and the Decklink being very happy in there. And when the new Mac comes out in another year it won’t be a big waste.
I’ll be using my Z400 as a GPU-accelerated digital cinema DCP QC station.
just a thought,
Jonathon
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Yep, totally agree with Marc. I figured others would chime in about the DS thing. I’ve also started using Smoke… which is a fantastic tool. However, the DS is by far the easiest to use and NO ONE else has integrated editing and compositing with Trees into a timeline as elegantly as on the DS. The compositing integration is something that you can only properly appreciate and miss if you’ve used a DS. Once you are accustomed to the DS workflow it is not fun working on other platforms.
Imagine DS and Resolve integrated into a single app.
Jonathon
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I think BMD should buy the DS finishing platform from Avid… Avid does not seem to care about it and BMD seem to be masters of turning products around. If BMD took on the Avid DS and “fixed” it, that would be amazing.
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Same problem here. I wonder what the odds of Infortrend giving us a firmware update for 10.7? I have the 8-bay and the 16-bay RAID’s. This really, really blows.
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Of the “official” Mac ones the Q4000 is the fastest… and has the most RAM. I’m on a Mac Resolve, however, I am experimenting using the Windows version as it ends up being more cost effective for multi GPU systems. At the point ProRes output is the main hang up if you go WIn.
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Yep, I’m buying as soon as BMD supports. They look great… has anyone where checked them out? Are they soild “enough”?
– JL
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Hey David,
The configuration was:
slot 1 – GPU GTX 285
slot 2 – GPU GT 120
slot 3 – atto 42ES
slot 4 – Avid Pro Tools HDX (audio DSP card)I had a 6-pin Y cable that fed the GTX card connected to the 1st aux power port. Then I had another Avid supplied 6-pin to multi 4-pin cable for the Avid HDX card. The new Avid Pro Tools HDX cards also need aux power.
Then when I powered up the system it did not make the normal start up chime. I could hear a relay clicking in the machine some where, but it would never start up after that. Even with all of the boards removed. Nothing.
Machine is at apple store being resurrected via apple care. I have a feeling the problem was with the Y cable which I bought on amazon. I got greedy and wanted to run too many things in one box.
I may switch the resolve to PC anyhow as there are more GPU and MOBO options. After considering the cubix, I may be better off just spending a little more and building one of supermicro 4x GPU systems. The cubix seems to be too much money for what it does. @ around 3k you can actually find z800 systems on google, which is the price of the chassis.
– Jonathon