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For me, the biggest reason to move on to DaVinci was realtime playback. With sound. Sound help you understand what’s going on, whether it’s a dialogue or a V.O.. There’s been some discussion about this and if it’s a good thing or a bad thing to have sound while grading – either way – you can choose not to use sound, it’s no big deal!
Another thing is that I can render to digital files in realtime. Sometimes faster, sometimes slower – but it’s not taking me two hours to render a 25 minute short film which has a wide range of tracking, vignettes and masks. Color is nauseating slow that way.
Then there’s the fact that you can play the timeline and master to tape or hard drive.. I’ve done this a couple of times. I have my old Mac Pro (still going strong) and I’ve simply hooked them together with a single SDI cable. On the old mac I use BMD Media Express and hit RECORD. On my DaVinci Mac, I hit PLAY. Tadaaa! 🙂 Audio and video in one go. Realtime.
Then there’s the nodes. Oh.. the nodes.. I enjoy working this way instead of predefined “primary in/secondary/out” rooms. And don’t get me started on the efficiency of tracking… 😉
Why I wouldn’t go back to Color
- You grade in “rooms” instead of all in one workspace
- No nodes (except for the FX room)
- Lack of sound and realtime playback
- Render is slow
- Tracking is hard to get right – and even if you get it right, it takes a while to process
- No support for external mattes
- Just namedropping “I got DaVinci” has landed me more jobs the past few months than I could saying “I got Color” the past three years
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I’d usually be quick to update, but not on a machine I’m working on. I’ll wait until new Decklink drivers, or a fix from Apple, or whatever is causing the problem.
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Looking roughly at what the KONA3 does, the Blackmagic Decklink HD Extreme 3D will be what you’re looking for. If you need a BoB, you should have a look at the Multibridge.
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That’s an interesting feature request. I like it.
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I believe it’s mentioned in the forums (Peter Chamberlain I think said it) that the HDMI output from the Decklink is YUV. And is it 8-bit? Don’t remember. I’ll do a search.. Only way I think you can get 10-bit is through a SDI-> HDMI converter or the HDLINK.
You will have to get a GeForce GT120 and a Quadro 4800 or Quadro 4000 in order to use Resolve. ATI Radeon is no go.
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Hmm.. So fiber is the way? Not possible with miniSAS? I’m a small cat in this profession, so I can’t spend money on such things. I wonder how far either of these would get me:
– 16 disks via eSATA in RAID5
– 8 disks via miniSAS in RAID5hum..
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How on earth would you achieve that?
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I’ll sit tight until BMD says Resolve can play with Fermi.
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Good question – I’m interested as well.
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Doesn’t come up in the Norwegian store 🙁