Luke Maslen
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Hi Adam,
Grant’s big email mentioned the Mac version of Resolve will need a single CUDA capable GPU card which means some model of NVIDIA card.
That is what will be required when the Mac version first ships but Grant also wants to add support for other GPU cards as well as opening DaVinci Resolve up to other brands of control panels and capture cards. That will be nice as you’ll be able to choose to use Blackmagic or third party hardware for use with Resolve but initial hardware support will be very specific so that we can ship Resolve for Mac as soon as possible.
We will post verified GPU and other hardware information a little closer to that time and we’ll probably also post more information in the DaVinci forum.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
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Hi David,
I’m glad that made some sense of your observations. It can be a little tricky when you first transition to HD as there is a lot to learn.
[David Hansen] “Do all your cards with breakout cables operate this way (passing the downconvert to all ports) or is it a feature of the Intensity alone?”
No, different cards have different features. Two cards, DeckLink Studio and DeckLink HD Extreme 3, have a split down conversion function. This means that when you are working in HD, some outputs will be HD and others are SD.
Other cards have all their outputs downconverted when downconversion is enabled.
DeckLink Studio has SDI and analog connections and a full-time downconverter. When working in HD, the main SDI port will output HD-SDI, the dedicated SD-SDI output will output SD-SDI (no surprises there!), the component analog outputs will output HD analog video, and the composite and S-Video outputs will output SD analog video.
The DeckLink HD Extreme 3 has SDI, HDMI and analog connections. It features both hardware and software downconverters which can be enabled or disabled. The software downconverter works just as with your Intensity Pro and downconverts all outputs simultaneously. The hardware downconverter performs split downconversion. When working in HD, the HDMI port will be HD, the SDI A port will output HD, the SDI B port output will output SD, the analog outputs will output HD if set to component or SD if set to S-Video or composite.
That’s a lot of information to absorb but I hope it makes some sense 🙂
Luke Maslen
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Hi Edward,
That is great news and thank you for letting us know that the replacement fan is much quieter.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
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Hi Sean,
I just spoke to Grant about your idea and he said that he would like to do everything but obviously we can’t do it all at once and we need to work out a priority order of features for each release. I’ve just set up an email address ultrascope-ideas@blackmagic-design.com so that anyone can email their UltraScope suggestions and ideas straight to our engineers and that makes it easy for us to see what would be the most popular suggestions and then roll them out in the next few software releases for UltraScope.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
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Hi Sean,
Thanks for your suggestion and we received a lot of great feedback from NAB about what people like about UltraScope and what changes or extra features they would like. We don’t want to delay the initial release by adding lots of new features so it will be released as planned and then we will sift through the many suggestions and see which ones are most popular. Hopefully we can add some of these soon!
Regards,
Luke Maslen
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Hi Joshua,
The problem with Julius’ second-hand Multibridge SD has been resolved but thanks for jumping in!
Regards,
Luke Maslen
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Hi David,
[David Hansen] “A 59.94p setting gives me crisp NTSC (albeit desaturated) but a really blurry looking HD output. I get that 59.94 is an NTSC standard, so that makes sense. Why I get blurry HD is confusing.”
When you enable down conversion in the System PrefPane for Intensity Pro, this down converts all outputs, ie your HDMI and your analog outputs. So the NTSC monitor will probably look quite crisp but the HDMI monitor will be showing standard definition video which has been scaled up to fill your HDMI display which is probably why it looks “blurry”. I think that would explain your observations.
If you are performing serious color grading work, then you may wish to review some of our new announcements from NAB 2009. We have just announced a $695 scope product which will be shipping in June and is perfect for color grading in HD and SD. It does require that you use SDI rather than HDMI or analog but it is the first affordable scope product for creative people. UltraScope is a software and card combination that plugs in to an inexpensive PC. You can then send any SD or HD format to it via SDI and use all the scopes to make sure your video is perfect. There are a lot of people who are still trying to use standard definition CRT monitors for color grading because they don’t trust the colors of HD flat screens and can’t afford an expensive HD waveform monitor. UltraScope makes HD scopes affordable so you can get the benefit of all the detail in your HD display and use UltraScope for checking all aspects of your video and audio. We have a range of SDI cards which you could use in place of your Intensity Pro starting from US$295 for the DeckLink SDI which supports 10-bit SD and HD via SDI.
In the meanwhile, you might find it very beneficial to call your closest Blackmagic Design office so they can help you in your crash course of transitioning from SD to HD.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
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Hi Edward,
That’s good news and I hope you find the new fan to be a lot quieter.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
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Great Russel,
Not everyone has easy access to other equipment to perform comparison testing but I’m glad you can lay your hands on another monitor soon and it will be very interesting to learn if you see the same problem or if it behaves as desired.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
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You are a wise man!
Regards,
Luke Maslen
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