[Martin Stange]

//And Rohit hinted you might not need a second GPU card anymore.

Does anyone profit from a second GPU-card at all?
Currently I´m running 2 Zotac GTX580 AMP2-3GB-cards in my system.
(Waiting for some components to build a second Grading-PC)
And I don´t see absolutely no difference in performance.

I´m grading on lite, so the rendering performance is obviously the same.
But I also see no difference in display performance. The scrubbing is still lagging when I have the parade-window open.

Kind Regards
Francis

Everyday without compassion is a lost day.
Therefore “Carpe Diem”

Martin Stange
Avid Editor, Junior Colorist, VFX-Artist, or just call me “God of Post” 😉

[Martin Stange]

Hi,

You need to install the correct and ONLY driver version of nvidia, which is 280.26. With all other drivers it might not work or you get less performance. I learnt it the hard way, why I only got 17fps with the latest driver…

I also have a GTX580 3GB and no seperate gui-card. Davinci gives an error message but it´s absolutely no problem if you have no gui card. In fact I installed a second (the same) GTX580 3GB (for 3D-Rendering in Blender with cycles) and I see no performance inprovement in my Resolve Lite, which is limited to one cuda-card.

Kind Regards

Francis

Everyday without compassion is a lost day.
Therefore “Carpe Diem”

Martin Stange
Avid Editor, Junior Colorist, VFX-Artist, or just call me “God of Post” 😉

[Martin Stange]

Hi Andrew,

I´m using an ASUS P8Z68 V-Pro. See my profile for more info…
Was the best choice last summer…
I´m not using a gui card. You get a warning message at startup, but I don´t care.
During Fullscreen-Playback I switch-off parade-display, else you get some slowdown…
As mentioned, I still get more than realtime-performance. (26-29fps) with Arri Alexa-4:4:4-Footage), loosing about 1fps per node (with blurs, etc…)

Kind Regards

Martin

Everyday without compassion is a lost day. So “Carpe Diem”

Martin Stange
Avid Editor, Junior Colorist, VFX-Artist, or just call me “God of Post” 😉

[Martin Stange]

Hi,
I have an overclocked Zotac 580 AMP2 3GB,
The Fans are realy quiet and I have no stability issues…
I´m running it since september 2011 doing 30-120min ARRI-ALEXA-dailies every workday with 25-28fps…
One of the best if not THE BEST 580…
The only drawback is, it´s a 3-slot card, but fast and quiet as hell.
Just be sure you use the proper driver-version 280.26. I learned it the hard way last week…

Maybe it helps.

Kind Regards

[Martin Stange]

Never mind…
Problem solved…
Too new Driver…
Looked up in the configuration guide and installed the 280.26 Nvidia Driver (was 301.42)…
And now it is as fast as ever…
Sometimes it helps to Read the FM… 😉

Maybe someone searches for a similar problem solution and find this post useful…

Kind Regards
Martin
(Now happy again with Rendering-performance) 🙂

[Martin Stange]

Hi,

here is my tested workflow:

1. Render the files out of resolve as MXF
2. Copy the MXFs into the MXF-Folder of Avid.
3. Drag and drop the files from the mediatool into a bin.
4. Export all files from the bin as “Quicktime-Reference” (It does batch export everything, when all clips are selected.)
5. Fast-Import the exported Quicktime-Refs again. (only some minutes or less for 1 hour of dailies)
Now they have the “Source File”-Metadata with the right clipname and the timecode is preserved and relinking to the untouched Alexa-Files work.
6. Delete the mediafiles and clips of point 2.

Kind regards
Martin

[Martin Stange]

Thanks Mike for making this clear.

We are still on Avid 5.5 and will continue using this version. Version 6 is not an update reason for us at the moment.

For other people out there who have the same trouble and are on 5.5, I found another solution:

1. Render the files out of resolve as MXF
2. Copy the MXFs into the MXF-Folder of Avid.
3. Drag and drop the files from the mediatool into a bin.
4. Export all files from the bin as “Quicktime-Reference” (It does batch export everything, when all clips are selected.)
5. Fast-Import the exported Quicktime-Refs again. (only some minutes or less for 1 hour of dailies) (My SSD helps a lot 😉
Now they have the “Source File”-Metadata with the right clipname and the timecode is preserved and relinking to the untouched Alexa-Files work.
6. Delete the mediafiles and clips of point 2.

Kind Regards and happy color-grading
Martin

[Martin Stange]

Pretty cool stuff…

I did some tests and so far it is pretty amazing…
Grading Arri Alexa 4:4:4 to Avid DNxHD 36
Rendering with 37-39 fps!!!
Losing about 1-2 frames per node…

My specs:
Win7 64bit
Intel 2600k (default clock)
16MB Ram
1 single GPU Zotac 580 AMP2 3GB GPU-Ram

I´m so happy right now 🙂

Martin

[Martin Stange]

Finally something for my “Zotac 580 AMP2” :-))))

[Martin Stange]

Thanks alot for making this awesome update for free!!!

I have a performance gain 0f 10-15%, this is great!

And finally I can dive into parallel nodes 🙂

Thanks alot and keep on rockin!!! 🙂

Martin