[Peter Chamberlain]

DaVinci Resolve on Linux has been available for six years and V7.0 was just released. There are 100 Hollywood features graded on Resolve and many more worldwide. Its hardly new and the low purchase price has nothing to do with the quality or feature set. It’s an extremely powerful grading system.

The hardware required is tested in our lab and our certified distributors follow a defined configuration and installation process to ensure consistency and reliability. These specific systems have been shipping for a year already and the V7.0 is just the latest update which includes 25+ new features. Have a look at the new Colorists Reference Manual on our blackmagic-design.com/davinci/support and the new features are listed in Chapter 1. You should be able to grade 20+ nodes at HD in real time on a 4GPU system. Even the Mac system offers 8+ layers of HD in real time on a single processing GPU.

I am sure you can find a sales rep eager to help. The list of distributors for the Linux systems is available at https://www.blackmagic-design.com/davinci/distributors/
DaVinci Resolve for Mac is available from all BMD resellers.

Peter

[Peter Chamberlain]

Resolve uses the NVidia CUDA GPU for image processing, but the CPUs are busy handling file I/O and the decompression/compression requirements of the difference codecs. If you work on r3d’s and don’t have a Rocket then the extra core or faster core help significantly deal with the debayer and decompression prior to handing the image data to the GPU.
2010 is a good choice over the 2008, but a similar spec 2009/2010 comparison will produce similar results.

Peter

[Peter Chamberlain]

Conform management is Resolve is powerful and few issues arise from mixed media.

[Peter Chamberlain]

Thanks for the feedback. We have a number of good ideas like these to consider for our subsequent releases.

[Peter Chamberlain]

Extract Reel Names from EDL comments: You can find the checkbox in the Configuration-Settings screen.

[Peter Chamberlain]

While Resolve uses GPU for image processing there are many file handling tasks and codecs that are CPU based. Decoding Prores for example, or r3d. Recent feedback from two beta testers on 2008MacPros say they can get 444 HD @24fps, most of the time. Clearly every facility will have different drive systems and image codecs and formats they prefer and different resolution requirements too. While a 2008MacPro will work for SD, we have set 444 HD as the must do MacPro spec and the 2009 model, even the dual quad core 2.26 works well. Keep an eye on the forums as I am sure more user feedback will provide the real world performance reports you are looking for.
Peter

[Peter Chamberlain]

Update for this thread. Yes Resolve now supports Cineform 2D and 3D reads on Mac and Linux. You can now also visualize the stereo on both platforms with a side-by-side image on the HD-SDI grading monitor out to your 3D monitor.
Peter

[Peter Chamberlain]

Four internal 1.5TB, Raid 0. FX4800 for GPU.

[Peter Chamberlain]

You should know by now that BMD don’t follow old business models. We are all about making it work 100% for the best possible price. So just to highlight one issue. Try and order a Nvidia 2200 S4. We know from experience that not just anyone can call and buy one. Our authorized distributors have been checked by Nvidia. They provide the support, cover warranty etc. They have costs to do this.
As I said, when we can make it easier and more open we will.
Peter

[Peter Chamberlain]

Hi, we have covered this issue just a few threads ago.
From the outside the decision to use a very limited number of qualified distributors for the Linux version of Resolve may seem odd, but trust me; some of us here have been building the Resolve on Linux for a few years, and while we have made the construction and installation process considerably more repeatable its not yet at the Mac plug and play stage. We exercise the hardware hard so for ALL our customers to get the real time experience we desire consistency in configuration is key. Few have access to the Nvidia 2200 S4, few know Infiniband, many more cant configure Linux ethernet ports, fibre channel storage or StorNext. We don’t want our customer to get half the great experience. We want you to get the full deal. If we can make this easier in the future we will, for now we know this plan works.

Peter