[Matthew Battershell]

Juan, you are being dense and wasting perfectly good white space by hypothetically declaring the GTX 285 to not be able to run Davinci well and- since it is 3-4 generations old- being good for nothing, thereby insinuating that those of us upset over CUDA support being completely erased, are in fact, crying a river of obsolete tears.

Let me explain why you should sit down:

1. The GTX 285 as a standalone GUI AND compute card runs Davinci 9 and 10 respectively, even with 2.5k BMCC RAW footage and 2 nodes. 5dmkII/III footage at 1080p can easily have 4 nodes (I’m not talking about NR) and have 24 fps playback.

2. Since this was a major card to actually have original MAC support, thousands of pro Mac users bought this card and still use it, enjoying PPro and Photoshop support (remember NVIDIA 4xx and 5xx did not have Mac cards unless you want to flash them or build a hackintosh).

3. Those of us who have newer cards can still use the GTX 285 as a GUI and appreciate the added mathematical support it offers when teamed up with newer cards, especially since Davinci 10 free allows for more than 1 GPU to be used now.

4. When projects are being finished perfectly without a hitch and then after an update stop working, the logical response is NOT “Oh well, I should go out and throw my hard-earned money at the newest $600 7xx card because I never knew what I was missing!!”

No, the logical answer is, “Why should a perfectly good piece of hardware that is perfectly powerful enough for non 4k work suddenly stop working?”

[Matthew Battershell]

Guys, I do not understand why more people are not taking this to support with NVIDIA, Apple and Blackmagic! The issues are: no CUDA at all for GTX285 and below! After calling, spending hours waiting, emailing and chatting on tech support, both NVIDIA and Apple give me conflicting answers: NVIDIA says it is an Apple issue and APPLE says NVIDIA has to make another driver. NVIDIA then says drivers are included in OS10.9

I understand the run-around because perhaps I was only talking with mid-level techs who don’t understand their own company or products :/

However, at least I have been proactive in contacting these companies. I talked with Blackmagic and asked if they would make NVIDIA / Apple aware – they are getting back with me.

Again, what I found out was that both NVIDIA and Apple said they were unaware of ANY issue.

I suggest we make this an issue unless all of us want to chuck out our GTX285’s as scrap plastic parts. And sitting around for 10.9.1 won’t necessarily mean CUDA support is fixed – only unless we act on it.

PS: Adobe doesn’t care unless you say you have Premiere CC because they’ll just tell you “oh, we don’t even support the GTX 285 on CS 5 or 6” which is just political because we all know how to go into that txt file and insert our GPU for Mercury Engine.

[Matthew Battershell]

My other thought is blending since, like you pointed out, the green paper is underneath with tracking points so now the composite cannot be blended to the page…

[Matthew Battershell]

Thank you guys so far for the advice. I need real footage, a CGI book from scratch is gonna look too digital, especially because the character sits down and opens the book.

I shot a light paper manual (had a lot of paper flex) with some semi green squares cut out with black tracking points on them.

I’m new to mocha, but got it to track, however the export tracking data was hit and miss for a null object in AE. Sometimes nothing would happen (3d object and parenting were correct). I ended up pasting on the actual shot to be composited. One issue that occurred was that it scaled really small once tracking data was pasted onto it.

Once the page is almost vertical, the clip is about gone, so it is just tracking the flex and warp to that point. If I use the green cutout I taped on the book page as a mask, invert it and then apply that mask to the tracked data on the composite clip, then that could help me with making the composite clip become less visible as the page turns, right? Instead of masking it out frame by frame?

Thoughts?

[Matthew Battershell]

Resolve 8.2 on Windows says “This is not a valid FCP xml” when trying to import the xml file. What do I do?

[Matthew Battershell]

ok, so if I have 2 gtx 480’s plus the gtx 285 with a 6 core 3.33ghz running at 3.75ghz, how do you think Resolve 9 with 4k footage will handle?

I guess the 285 would be my GUI right?

Would you run the GTX 480 in SLI mode or regular?

I have a 750 watt PSU, I guess I have to upgrade that?

Thanks

[Matthew Battershell]

As a hackintosh user using a PC GTX 285 card (getting good performance), am I obligated to use a flashed 570 for the Mac or will my gains be equal with a PC version?

And I may as well go with a 580 over the 570 2.5 GB right?

Thanks (first post btw!)