Rick Lang
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[Tom Sefton] “Hardware choices for Mac at the moment seem poor value aside from the macbook pro retinas. You could build a stonkingly fast PC system with a new 2k resolution HP monitor for less than a top of the range iMac and then be able to upgrade it for the next 5 years of its life….”
Tom, that thinking is so “yesterday” while many here are anticipating “tomorrow.” Do the apples-to-apples comparison “later in 2013” (Tim Cook’s timeline for the updated Mac Pro) and we’ll ignore that your OS of choice is Windows rather than Mac OS X. There’s been thousands of posts like this so I hope this doesn’t add another hundred. Call me grumpy, sorry!
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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The trial version is release 10.0.6. The purchased version is 10.0.7.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Rome wasn’t built in a day. I see this as just the first panel of something that may eventually offer several virtual panels for specialized use. These criticisms of the current implementation are all quite valid but may be a hint of what is to come in future versions.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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[Oliver Peters] “I posted this in another thread, but here are some workflow ideas:
https://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/blackmagic-cinema-camera-post-...”
Interesting to see a large number of grading examples using different software. From comments John Brawley has made on the actual colour of Casey Burgess’ red jacket, the Apple Color grade beginning at 3:27 of your grading video appears to me to be the closest to reality. Not that reality is any goal, but just for your information. Red seems to be the most difficult colour to reproduce perfectly if that’s what one wants.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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[Oliver Peters] “Remember, you can shoot ProRes instead.”
For those not familiar with the BMCC, the 10bit ProRes 4:2:2 (HQ) records at 220Mb/s so still lots of quality inherent in the data for grading and that makes for an easier workflow in FCPX for example. If 12bit Raw is used, that may be ingested into DaVinci Resolve for initial debayer/grade and then send a flavour of ProRes ro FCPX and roundtrip back to Resolve for final grading.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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[Gary Huff] “CinemaDNG is HUGE. It’s not just Raw, its uncompressed Raw. It’s not like Redcode at all. 30 minutes of footage took up 520-something gigabytes of storage.”
Gary, nice to see you are awaiting a BMCC MFT. Each frame of CinemaDNG is about 5MB in size so at 24fps a 480GB SSD will hold more than an hour of video plus the separate .WAV audio file. If shooting 30 fps, you should see over 50 minutes per SSD. Many people are preferring to use the smaller 240GB SSD and that’s perhaps where the roughly 30 minutes of footage is the limit.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Steve, Blackmagic Design has their own forum section on all things BMD including Resolve and the Blackmagic Cinema Camera. BMCuser is another great discussion group. Both these sites are full of people bemoaning the fact that they are still waiting for their camera to be shipped, but other than that the sites are very useful with professionals of all stripes contributing.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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[Craig Harris] “My hope is to hear from Blackmagic and whether or not they’ve tested and approved this configuration with the latest iMac.”
Craig, Peter Chamberlain of BMD has posted elsewhere that the new 27″ iMac with 3.4 GHz i7 processor, 16 GB DDR3 system memory and GTX 680MX with 2 GB GDDR5 video memory has been successfully tested and will be added to the next release of the configuration manual. Resolve is happy with 16 GB system memory, but if you are pairing it with FCP X for example that loves memory and will use every resource you throw at it, then 32 GB system memory would be a better configuration choice given the budget for it is there.
I have not downloaded release 9.1 of DaVinci Resolve yet but I would think it is in the latest configuration guide now. I’ve heard of some problems with Resolve 9.1 so might be best to pass on that update until 9.1.1.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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I did read that the Red Rocket draws its power from the PCIe bus so no problems for it re external power connector. The Sonnet supplies the power. But I still don’t know how many watts it draws however doubt that is an issue on the Pro model with 150 watts.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB