[Matthew Jeschke]

I noticed something fiddling around here. Resolve doesn’t work well when I plug in the new 3rd monitor. I unplugged it as well as my scopes monitor. Then it runs MUCH faster. I think really what I need is a good enough graphics card to run all my displays then leave the 2080 Ti for Resolve exclusively.

[Matthew Jeschke]

Thanks, I think part of what confuses me is I have the Nvidia brand 2080 Ti w/ 11GB memory. They are going for as little as $550 on eBay and upwards of $1000. I’m not really sure why… If indeed the newer cards are faster, many are less than $500 and most less than $1000 (until it’s the latest stuff).

The card I have is “good enough” for what I’m doing outside of those two nodes (noise and magic mask). I’m wondering though if I shouldn’t sell this thing and get a newer card or risk it being slower in resolve.

I’m also told by another editor that the 2080 Ti predates some stuff Nvidia did to the chipsets (not exactly sure what that stuff is). According to what he’s telling me the newer cards he tells me are somewhat handicapped as a result? I cannot find specifics on this though and very few benchmarks run inside of DaVinci itself to validate these claims.

[Matthew Jeschke]

Not too worried about breaking the PC as I built it. More concerned about breaking the budget. So the 4060 is a better version of the 2080? I couldn’t figure that out as some benchmarks were putting it at par with the 2080 Ti (totally confusing).

In researching I couldn’t find much info on what can better handle noise reduction, which grinds my timeline playback down to a few frames per second.

[Matthew Jeschke]

Few thoughts, likely you’ve already done this…

Does the original HEVC clip display correctly in the media preview window inside the media workspace / panel of DaVinci Resolve? (this tests your decoder w/o any transforms).

What color space and gamma did you shoot in?

Are you using color managed or defining the transforms for each clip? I’ve set transforms incorrectly both in nodes and in the project settings and it’ll do some weird stuff.

[Matthew Jeschke]

Thanks! Really appreciate your help.

[Matthew Jeschke]

I finally found a monitor for my space. I was thinking of an Samsung S80 OLED. But really had been focused on a smaller display for my limited space.

Just a few minutes ago a ViewSonic VX1655-4k-OLED. It’s 15.6″, slightly larger than my scopes display. Fits my space perfectly. Only crux is I need to custom build a mounting bracket. If anybody else needs one I am designing a VESA MIS-B mount (100mm x 100mm).

The monitor WORKS as expected! It’s good enough for my little productions. Not sure it’s “broadcast” quality. However, will work to make content for a UHD HDR TV as most people would have in their houses.

[Matthew Jeschke]

Did you figure it out? I have the same problem with Davinci Resolve 21 Studio.

[Matthew Jeschke]

The monitor profiles aren’t that great on these things. I have a system for SDR to correct that. However, it won’t handle HDR.

A clean video feed from Davinci Resolve: is it possible to have resolve send a video feed without any influence from the windows color management stuff? Maybe a box I buy or something that sends a clean feed?

A application to calibrate HDR: is there application that provides finer control to tweak HDR? A full on calibration would be best, otherwise I’ve only the ability to adjust most basic things right now (contrast, brightness, and saturation).

Side note: I got my hands on a small portable monitor saying it does HDR… It claimed 120% DCI-P3 which seemed reasonable. However, it’s claims were far off or at least its ICC profile is all wrong. I also got my hands on another desktop ASUS monitor which does HDR. Out the box the ASUS is much better suited.

[Matthew Jeschke]

Thanks for your help. I’m skeptical Davinci at this point in time could give me a separate window for the viewer as well. My searches haven’t come up with how to do that. I’m going see if they’d be interested in updating the software to do that.

I borrowed a Atmos Ninja 5. It plugs in and works as expected. As you’d eluded to, it’s not a realistic option for viewer screen. As you mentioned, it’s SMALL though, even smaller than timeline viewer on my main display. I could possibly live with that however, I think I saw more color detail on my main display, 31MU97 despite it being SDR. I could likely nail the contrast but would have to switch between previews on the two displays. I really liked the ability to click overlays for false color, etc. but not really my intention.

In reality ideally, I’d have a portrait display w/ good rec 2020 performance to offload the scopes and viewer too… However, even if that was possible it’s beyond my budget right now.

I think I’m going to take a chance on this generic 13.3″ monitor. It’ll fit my desk perfectly, has a bit better rec 2020 coverage (though not nearly as good as my HDR TV). It’ll get my part way there till I can get some more $$ and software catches up.

Thanks for the help!

[Matthew Jeschke]

I think there maybe a way to round trip files… Say if you’re working with a sound engineer who doesn’t necessarily have resolve. We were looking into that so we could use Adobe Audition for some of the sound design but decided to stick inside fair light for now.

It’s worth noting I had similar challenges with fair light until they came out with version 19, which I assume you’re already running if not newer.