Malcolm Matusky
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It does not really matter if the cameras were tested before the shoot, you have to have the settings, profiles, luts that are used on the day of shooting and shoot charts in the same lighting with all three cameras at the same time. This used to be a SOP for multi camera video shoots, otherwise nothing would match. Just because you are not using a switcher, does not mean you can skip this step, you saved $2.00 in production and spent $2,000 in post.
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Malcolm
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I have 2 Quadro 4000 cards, and a few years ago they were a good choice, but unless you need 10 bit output to a 10 bit monitor (I have 2) there are better cards, new or used. I’m keeping one Q4k, and getting a GTX980, I’ll post an update when I get it installed and running.
Malcolm
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I was not interested in purchasing an “obsolete” card, as I want to upgrade my Motherboard next year, Intel x99, so I wanted a GPU that would work now, and on the new system. Rendering time is the least of my issues, decent timeline playback is, that is where I spend 99% of my time in Vegas or Resolve. I have a 6 core CPU now, and on the X99 build will spring for the 8 Core CPU. A lot of information on GPU’s here! thank you all as just reading the marketing literature makes everything look fantastic, when only a few products actually make sense for professional NLE use, and it’s not the “professional” Quadro’s anymore.
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Malcolm
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I have 2 Quadro 4000 cards, and am getting a GTX980, to replace one of them, I am primarily interested in Davinci Resolve playback acceleration, and time line playback in Vegas Pro 13, but I make my H264 in Handbrake from 10bit DNxHD output. Handbrake pins all my system resources, so I presume its working more efficiently than MainConcept.
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Malcolm
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https://store.smpte.org/product_p/dlab-smpte-pos.htm
Shoot this chart with each camera in the same lighting setup, it will give you a starting point for color correction. This should also work with Resolve 11 with “auto correct.” Other charts that work in Resolve are really for still photography, not HD video. The smpte chart actually has patches that line up with your vectorscope, at 1/2 intensity (due to cost/printing technology) None of the still photo charts do this.
Always use charts! It saves you time in post.
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M
Malcolm
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I had always used “16” rendering threads, as I thought it was CPU setting, not GPU. I set it to 8, the rest of my setting were the same, thank you for the information!
I am thinking of upgrading one of my GPU cards to a GTX6xx or 7xx series with 4gb of Vram for Davinci Resolve.
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Malcolm
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Just finished upgrading the CPU to a xeon 5680 with 24Gb of ram. I have noticed a boost in performance with my system. Next up is to install a 3 drive raid0 for boosting playback performance. Next year a Mother board & CPU upgrade, but not for a while.
Malcolm
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Sounds like you need to hire someone with more experience who lives in your area to spec out a system for you and provide training.
Malcolm
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I have two Quadro 4000 cards, I get almost no benefit from VP13, but a big bump with Davinci Resolve 10. To put off building a completely new NLE system I am upgrading my CPU from a Quad core to a Hex core next week, perhaps that will give me more of a boost in VP13 as I can overclock the CPU as well.
Next build will be a x99 chipset with an 8 core CPU, but I would like to wait a while for prices to drop a bit. GTX7xx series cards with 4GB of Vram seem to be the recommendation for the price for Davinci at the moment, with the new build I’ll get two.
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Malcolm
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2k, 4k, 8k, ugh!
I just completed a “minor” upgrade to my system and will try to wait out the new x99 chips to see what the true performance is. Everything I shoot is still HD, and hopefully will be for a while, as upgrading my entire system from camera to computer to storage is quite expensive, and for the work I do is unnecessary as clients would not pay for it.
I am just getting started with Resolve 10, soon 11, as soon as I’m done grading a current job, not wanting to upgrade during a project!
Why not grade in 2k and then render out a 4k if needed by linking files?
An offline/online workflow used to be standard procedure. Is there a significant difference with grading 4k material at 4k on your monitors and in real time? Perhaps someone who has done this could post a few comments.I have found that noise reduction bogs my system down, but not color nodes, so I’ll be turning off NR till my last pass and then enable for render. A cheaper solution than new graphics cards and a CPU, but then I generally do not have clients in the room wanting it done “right now.”
Malcolm
http://www.malcolmproductions.com