Paul Nordin
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Wow. I felt exactly the opposite about Color’s UI. I was constantly mousing around and paging from secondaries to primary to FX. I hated that. When I started using Resolve, it was like a clearing of muddy water and my productivity nearly doubled.
Just shows there’s no one best way, just ways that work best for me.
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Then you can create your grade in 10bit with realtime performance, and render at higher bit rates.
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I’ve just finished the first detailed pass through a feature on Resolve 8.01 and have used the NR on several shots. Frankly, I am probably going to disable most of the clips NR, and take those shots to AE and use Neat Video.
The feature was shot on 5D and Resolve NR isn’t able to do anything good with the video noise. It just blurs it and the chunks become bigger more indestinct chunks. Even at the higher settings.
Neat video is more of a hand crafted fix for noisy shots, but the results are heads and tails superior to the NR in Resolve I’m sad to say.
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That all works just fine on my system. Nothing is grayed out.
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I know several of us (myself included) that use the Logitech G13 for just that purpose. Works great with Resolve, and now most of my favorite functions are a single button hit. Quite a time saver.
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You won’t regret getting the 4x double wide. That is what I have with 2x 285s a RR and an Atto H680. Works great.
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Hey Sean,
If money is an issue. Why don’t you try things out with what you have (32GB). It will work, it just won’t be optimal. And if you have performance problems after trying it, you know what your next step should be._______________________
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Yeah the lack of current info for certified systems is really a drag. 6 months ago I had this same problem. Based on BM support’s encoraging words that “it should work”, I purchased a cheap Hewlett Packard HPE-580t, quad 3.07ghz, 8gb RAM, with Windows 7 Pro 64bit. I’m happy to say that it works like a champ.
If you search back in this forum you can probably find my dialog with BM support.
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You can use an RAID card to run the drives inside your MacPro and get better performance than using a softward RAID. This give you two wins: 1. faster RAID performance 2. Removes RAID overhead from CPUs which gives more CPU power to Resolve. Software RAID as you have it setup now will work. Hardward RAID for your internal drives will work better. The card I was recommending (ATTO R680) is for external SAS enclosures. For your internal RAID, if you want to go with a RAID Host Bus Adapter, there are many available at OWC including: ExpressSAS R608, which is the internal version.
If you haven’t purchased the MacPro yet, you can get it with 24GB RAM and that will work great. If you alreay have 32GB Ram with 8GB sticks (installed 2x processor), then you can purchase two more 8GB sticks and add one to each processor. That will bring your total to 48gb.
Routing your HDMI signal off of the Declink card, IF you install a RAID card will be -whatever you can figure out-. I didn’t go that route. I decided to get the Cubix Xpander Pro 4 which gives me an additional 4 slots. So I have two GTX285s and a RedRocket in addition to what you have. It screams and does Red 4k footage realtime.
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1. I have the Cubix expansion chassis so that solved the “out of slots” problem for me. If you can afford it, I highly recommend it. If not, I know of a few people that have drilled small holes in the back of their MacPros to pull the HDMI cables through from the Declink card. Whichever approach you settle on, the HDMI signal along with HDSDI work fine with Resolve.
2. DO NOT buy the Apple RAID card! It’s problematic, over priced,and out dated tech. I have been very happy with the ATTO R680, and it seems to be a very common choice. You can avoid the hardware raid card and do a software raid with 3-4 drives inside your MacPro. It won’t have as good performance and a card, but it still works. I used Software raid for awhile and got realtime playback of HD in Resolve.
3. 32 GB is not recommended, and imparts a slowdown from the recommended RAM amounts. I would suggest you add two more 8gb sticks to your rig and fill 3 of the 4 slots for each processor. That speeds memory utilization quite a bit.
4. Believe me when I tell you, realtime playback IS a big deal and worth making a priority. I was a Color user since it was released and now am blown away by how much faster I can grade and how much better quality my first passes are just because of realtime.
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Emeryville, CA
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