[Joseph Owens]

[Sanket Patil] “16 Tb Raid 5 Storage”

RAID 5 is a slower data throughput strategy. Test your bitrate.

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Joseph Owens]

[Frederic Lumiere] “All the clips show fine in the default.”

I don’t really understand this statement.

However, are your DNxHD clips Quicktime.mov or in MXF wrapper? QT DNxHD is not a Resolve-supported codec.

jPo

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[Joseph Owens]

[Sascha Haber] “t and the performance is doooh”

Do we have any benchmarks for what is “doohhh”?

I have a pair of GT480s running in a 16xCubix, and the Single Precision Float processing per GPU is around 1331 GFlop/sec. Double Precision around 168 GFlop/sec. The Host/Drive rate is about 5748 MiB/s.

What kind of numbers do you see?

I am away from my Q4000 system this weekend, but I’d be curious to run this gauge on it.

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Joseph Owens]

One in a line of people who don’t bother to learn a piece of software and then making comments about it.

Careful.

Read the rest of the “comments” exchange that follows the article.

What is truly sad are the number of posts on this partition that are dated Dec 24, and Dec 25. Wow, those are some priorities.

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Joseph Owens]

I’ve never encountered any driver conflicts when installing newer versions over top of previous instances. You can only have one version resident, though.

jPo

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[Joseph Owens]

I recently needed to deemphasize some loud pink lettering on a green sweatshirt, and what finally was acceptable was a MochaPro generated traveling matte. The original footage was AVC-intra shot in a “hunting frame” technique, with the subject wearing the shirt going in and out of frame, being obscured by other characters, and crossing behind layers of glass. So the source values were constantly shifting, and the edges were always blurred — no HSL qualifier in the world is going to take care of this. Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and grit it out.

I will say that I worship the water that Mocha walks on. No point tracker can compete with their system, mainly because every pixel in your selected tracking area is being motion matched. Quite frankly, you can even match the pin cushion lens distortion, should you decide to take those sorts of details into account.

jPo

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[Joseph Owens]

Yikes, kind of looks like you’re using the cards flopped and getting the commensurate performance.

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Joseph Owens]

[Dave Boampong] “the package came without the installation disc. Is it not supposed to be included in the package?”

No, not as far as I know. You get the CUDA driver with the Resolve installation, and the nvidia card driver is something you would need to get from nvidia anyway.

Quoting Dwayne Maggart:

The CUDA driver is a totally separate thing from the card driver. You need to download and install the card driver. You can find it here:

https://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-macosx-256.02.25f01-driver.html

This is only for Snow Leopard. Lion has the proper driver built in.

So it depends a bit on your Operating System as to what you might actually need, and as MacVidCards is not exactly a major manufacturer, some assembly is required.

jPo

PS my pair of 480s are working fine in a 16x Cubix Desktop Xpander, using the internal ATI 5770 as GUI.

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Joseph Owens]

[Walter Soyka] “a much more unified model for “the customer” and one-size-fits-all approach to meeting their needs”

Above all, Apple is the “i-something” brand for around 78% or more of their product line. Where their profit centers are, only their accountants know, and I’d imagine they’re pretty creative, too. So one of the most dangerous business practices is to keep swinging the bat the same way that you swung it when you hit that home run, because thats what we expect from the heavy-hitter/sluggers. We see the ‘i” invading and taking over the entire Mac world, zombie-style, as they unify their OS so that it looks the same on every platform, whether its a phone or the Lion-ized MacPro. Even if it sports 16 cores. Probably more so. But wouldn’t it be nice to “swipe” between AVID, AE, MochaPro, Resolve…???

Over the last half-dozen years, man, the wailing, hair-pulling and gnashing of teeth over the un-Apple look of SHAKE and COLOR… I thought it would never end, but Apple saw to that by terminating those applications. So now we will shortly have the gestural/swipe editor upsold to the previously ProApp group — of course, this is the way iMovie works on the iPad – and in what way does this not make sense? What works small should work big too, right? Well, except in businesses large enough to need actuarial figures. Makes those “investment” business cases hard to pitch… y’know, to… well… “bankers”… or anybody who needs the numbers. But if your whole business investment is $299…. sorry, uh, refresh me, what would be the concern?

So there is an argument that “Apple is in the hardware business”, and uses the software as a sort of entree to move boxes. I’d suggest that is not necessarily the case, either, since the biggest thing that Apple does now is design — the actual hardware is produced by someone else, again.

I saw a business article discussing Intel’s Windows8 tablet recently — wouldn’t it be interesting if the actual manufacturers decided to step around the middle man and started producing and selling their own product instead of letting a design company put their fancy label on it, jack up the price, and keep steering the customers back into their selling compound?

“The Price Goes Up as the Name Goes On!” like the old Zenith ads might have said. You do remember Zenith (Motorola), right? or Electrohome? or RCA? or…

jPo

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[Joseph Owens]

Sorry, I was thinking of “ignore file extensions”….

but Resolve does live and die by reel number and timecode, as has been stated previously on this forum.

jPo

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