Lauri Laidna
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Depending on your “workflow” or project it is a great feature! I’ll be selecting it 50:50 in setup pages on different projects. Thanks for this tip/feature 🙂
Avid Media Composer | Adobe After Effects | DaVinci Resolve
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Sorry to bring up this old thread. Are there any news on the subject?
The point to support GPU rendering from RED would be the ability to sell license for it. Many times higher profit margins than selling (and developing) hardware!
Avid Media Composer | Adobe After Effects | DaVinci Resolve
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Make an image of the whole system drive just to be sure. Or just don’t risk it 😉
Avid Media Composer | Adobe After Effects | DaVinci Resolve
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Thanks! Will read it…
But is it so that with MC Color / Avid Artist panel you don’t get to see the values on the OLED displays of the control panel?
Avid Media Composer | Adobe After Effects | DaVinci Resolve
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If you are interested in testing codec “quality” you can do multiple decode-encode cycles and stack the video files on top of each other and apply difference layer mode. Then boost exposure to see the difference better.
IMHO this is best way to analyze the codecs and see what they are doing to the picture and where.
Avid Media Composer | Adobe After Effects | DaVinci Resolve
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X79 chipset is Quadruple-channel, not triple (X58 was)! So if possible you should get 4x8GB, but 8GB sticks aren’t widely available. Cheaper would be to start with 4x4GB and still have 4 empty slots.
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Take the DaVinci guide as your reference. You can use 3930K CPU instead, half the price and very fast! Quadro 4000 as GUI graphics card has the advantage of only using up 1 slot, while most fast cards use up double slots on the motherboard. But you can use almost any card for monitors. Fastest supported GPU is GTX580 at the moment. With P9X79 motherboard take 4x8GB RAM so you can later add 32GB later totaling 64GB. SSD as system drive, 2 fast SATA drives as RAID0 is minimum for media drive (for compressed video).
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I’m usually sending out h264 for preview. Yes, there’s the small issue with gamma, but it is acceptable. Bigger problem is that you have no control over how and where the client is viewing the file.
It is very much about trust between the client and you. Depending on the client I might write small side-note about what has been done regards to grading. I think it is good to explain the look and tell the client why you did what you did! This gives the client comfort that you addressed all the issues and made the best possible result!
BTW – On Windows Resolve rendering to QT h264/mpeg4 is extremely slow. Resolve is using 32bit export process. So wise thing is to encode to something else and then use external software.
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Yes, any card is fine for monitors. In my case it is still nVidia because of Adobe and Avid.
GTX 560 Ti by the specs looks more powerful than GTX285 that I’ve used most. 560Ti has 384 cores while 285 has only 240. So 560Ti should be more than enough for even quite complex grading! You should get more than 50 fps rendering most of the time!
What codec are you rendering out to? Try Avid DNxHD 1080p. Are you running striped RAID? Rendering from one drive to another?
Sidenote: Looks like Resolve’s Quicktime h264 and MPEG4 encoding is done by a 32-bit process and it is VERY SLOW. Not utilizing CPU power available.
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Has anyone used USB-Ethernet adapter to connect Artist Color straight to PC? It should work. This seems easier setup than having to get additional Ethernet switch.