Kevin Cannon
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Yeah, with Lite I don’t know if it will prevent you from using media at/over 2K, or prevents you from creating sequences/outputting at/over 2K.
KC
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I think what you’re getting at is that you currently just want an “assistant station” set-up to transcode DPX to ProRes at slow speeds, check EDLs/XMLs while you edit with the offline media to ensure that it will reconnect later, yes? And understanding that, as John points out, you won’t have an actual grading monitor to do this?
Judging from the assortment of MacBook Pros and iMacs and Mac Pros running Resolve 8 at NAB, you can create a pretty limited configuration. You could go without the Decklink card and monitor for the moment, because you would not be capturing from tape, laying to tape, or monitoring. You can even skip the GUI graphics card and plug your GUI monitor into the card doing the grading and avoid needing two graphics cards (at a cost of performance). Look for a flashed GTX285 on ebay for Mac, for a few hundred dollars. Or perhaps you can use a stock 5770 or so for part of this.
Also, quite possibly Resolve Lite will allow you to do the transcoding before you buy a license, if you transcode to HD and don’t do more than 2 nodes of grading (with this limited set-up, perhaps best to do no grading).
However, once you finish editing and it’s time to color, this configuration would be inadequate for 2K 10-bit realtime color grading, at which point you could invest or do as Joseph suggests…
KC
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1. Resolve deals with prefixes and suffixes on your sequences and I believe they can have any number of padded digits… I’ve never run into a syntax issue with DPX sequences, and sometimes I send them out from shake and others with odd filenames.
2. Resolve for Mac (not Linux) imports and exports ProRes files, and when you render you can use either source timecode or timeline timecode. I haven’t had problems with this since 7.0 or so.
3. I bought mine from Whipping Post.
4. Never seen a hard-copy available. You might have to print it…
KC
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What’s “cheap?” I haven’t used it for color correction, but the JVC RS60u3d seems like a great option for 1080p rec.709 material. At $8,000 it’s only cheap in comparison to Christie HD2Kc and company, but if you potentially want to use the room for more serious grading later on, I would recommend giving it a look… quiet and cool enough to put over your head…
Cheers,
KC
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The 12-core mac pro does a admirable job of de-bayering RED footage at half-res and “good” quality at 24fps. I don’t use a RRocket card or transcode to DPX, so if that is your exact situation, the difference might be significant there.
KC
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Up 6.4% since launch day?
KC
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Welcome,
Currently it is the Decklink Extreme 3/3D/3D+ (the first two have been discontinued and replaced by the 3D+) that are supported. Apparently some older ones are perfectly capable of monitoring, and there are likely future options in the Decklink 4K and Ultrastudio 3D…
I’m almost sure that the support for panels will be the same in the lite version as it is in the full… they only list Stereoscopic 3D features, 2K, noise reduction, power mastering, remote grading and sharing projects with an external database server as disabled in the lite. The program is much better with a panel that it would be counter-productive for people to demo without it.
Be sure to review the whole configuration guide on blackmagic’s support site. It’ll help greatly in planning what GPUs and storage options to get.
KC
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Well the pics and part numbers are in that other thread you just unscrew one of the HDMI cables from the Decklink backplate, plug it into the rear of the decklink card and snake it up the side and into the optical bay and out the front…
But if you want to close the door, you’ll have to cut a gap into the door. But you can buy an extra door for 50 bucks or so… But use the backplate if you have space.
KC
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Sorry, Eric…
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Thanks Erik,
Good to know, you should encourage them to correct that in the configuration guide!
KC
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