[Leonardo Piero]

Darin,

I reconfirmed again about this.

1. If your footage is R3D files you need to enable the cache+ mode or you need to render out and do the batch output to get the burn-ins go to tape.

2. If your footage is DPX files and you see no red icon in the thumbnail on your timeline it means you can do power mastering with your burn-ins without rendering. Just remember when you enable the power mastering, resolve will ask whether you want to enable the cache+ mode or not, just choose NO.

3. You will not see the burn-ins on your broadcast monitor while you grading, but it will go to the tape when you do power mastering without the need to render. I’m 110% sure about this, confirmed & tested on 4GPU Linux 🙂

Maybe someone from DaVinci support can double confirm about this?

[Leonardo Piero]

[Darin Wooldridge] “May I ask what version of the software you are using?”

I’m not too sure about the version. I’ll check it later.

[Darin Wooldridge] “Is it doing a cache of the entire reel and rendering the windows into the cache file?”

Not sure, I never check the cache directory.
But if you only use 3 or 4 nodes for doing the dailies, I don’t think Resolve will write something to the cache directory.

What I can remember is, if you activate the power mastering in the config page before you play out to tape, it will activate the cache+ mode automatically.

[Leonardo Piero]

[Darin Wooldridge] “Forgive in i’m wrong but it was my understanding that in the current resolve you must render to get burn in’s to tape.”

No need to render on the current resolve and it also works with r3d files.
Not sure about the mac version though.

BTW, is the cache mode in mac version different from the current version?