Juan Salvo
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No one on dual boot yet. That’s a good point about the firmware. Though I understand BMD loads fw on boot, so dual boot may fix even that!
Thought I think a dedicated system for Resolve is probably the best way to go.
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They may have a plugin for NLEs but RAW is VERY cpu (or if you’re lucky gpu) hungry. It’s not a pleasant way to cut.
You wouldn’t edit a film in 4K DPX, you have dailies done and edit with those. Then go back do a DI session. Same principle applies here. Also applies to RED for example. Sure you can bring red files straight in to several NLEs, but this is not a good way to do an offline edit.
Just to add, the principle backer of the CinemaDNG format that BMD is using is Adobe… so if any nle will support the BMDCC Raw I would look to them to be one of the first.
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Everyone else I’ve talked to saying they have sluggish performance with BMD has had resolve on the same machine. The driver install may not be overwriting all the files (i.e. it sees the file is already there and skips it) there by leaving some resolve optimization in the driver. I’ve got several MCs running on BMD hw, and none with Resolve installed on the same box. All seem to work well, maybe a hair less well than Nitris hw (which we also have)… but nothing that would make me complain of sluggish performance. So far the only common thread I’ve found with regards to people experiencing sluggishness has been a resolve install.
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These don’t work with the hyperdeck. Don’t expect them to work with the Camera. Certainly wouldn’t be useable for RAW recording.
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10gig Ethernet through thunderbolt HBAs. I think with FCoE (fibre channel over ethernet) catching on as well, this will be a replacement for both gigabit ethernet NAS sharing and fibre channel based SAN systems.
Hopefully when the chipset costs drop we’ll see 10gigE adopted right into iMacs and the like.
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photoshop.
if you want to do it yourself. make a new layer, set the transfer mode to color, then use the paintbrush tool to spray on the color desired.
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Do any of you having sluggish performance issues have Resolve installed? If so which version #? Lite or full?
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It’s not an issue of off angle contrast as with LCD. But rather color, it shifts, or rather your perception of it shifts as you move away from center. You’ll need to see for yourself.
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Hi Danny,
I’ll have to refer you to the resolve manual. Particularly page161 “Using ColorTrace to apply grades from one project to another”.
Sorry to send you to the manual, but the steps are a bit involved. But it works great. Check it out!
-Juan
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If you want reliability, compatibility & performance, I’d go with the system built in to the os. I’d also strongly recommend hiring an Xsan/stornext specialist to consult and advice on best practices. The paculiarities of video production are just that, and unique to video production. A system designed for general shared storage is not necessarily going to offer acceptable performance for video, and vice versa. There is lots of fine tuning for video that is done on stornext.
Ultimately the choice is yours, but I know of many, many shops (including mine) running Xsan successfully for post. I know of none using XIV. It doesn’t sound like cost is an issue, and a good specialist can find ways to integrate your existing infrastructure, for example with regards to the archive, into your installation. So why risk it?
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