Rick Lang
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Good news. That may give you time to upgrade to Mountain Lion! The price is so low and you can go directly from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion ($20) entirely skipping that outrageously expensive upgrade to Lion ($30). I just mention this, assuming all your applications run fine on Mountain Lion, to keep you in a 64-bit world. 8^)
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Is there any value in using the 16-bit TIFFs in this workflow?
I had created 8-bit TIFFS in Aperture because I thought FCPX was converting the TIFFs to 8-bit ProRes but if FCPX will convert the 16-bit TIFFs from Aperture to 10-bit ProRes(HQ), then that’s a superior option. No point in losing any colour resolution if the whole point is to take advantage of the BMCC’s capabities. Of course 16-bit TIFFs will take about 20 MB per frame! Not a long-term strategy but okay while learning. Best long-term strategy remains Resolve 9 on a new iMac or Mac Pro next year when I can budget an upgrade and a BMCC purchase. Other priorities this year… my first grandchild arrived in July!
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Yes, I’ve used Aperture and amazingly, even Preview does an appealing beauty grade in a TIFF version of the DNG. I didn’t realize that could be pulled into FCPX and automagically convert to ProRes 4:4:4. It looks good on the iMac. That was just for fun, but using Aperture, it’s easy to apply the first grade of a single DNG to all selected frames with the Lift and Stamp tools. Doesn’t replace DaVinci of course for finishing with the limited functionality but it does work in its own fashion for grading. And Aperture includes Noise Reduction which of course I don’t have in DaVinci Lite so I played with that too. Lovely stuff having raw video! Casey Burgess should be the poster child for the BMCC!
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Thanks so much for the detailed analysis! Very kind.
I assume your references to the image sizes as 2350×1400 are supposed to be 2400×1350, the size of the debayered Cinema DNG images. Fascinating how FCPX is handling it.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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[Rob Mackintosh] “Playback was realtime (playback quality high) off my internal hard drive and even with the grade applied near realtime. Off faster storage and with a newer machine (I’m using a late 2009 iMac) I’d expect good performance.
“Rob, lovely work!
Rob, ignore my request re Resolve 9 if you also haven’t been able to use it. Just noticed your post is FCPX, not Resolve 9! I’m still half asleep and had just finished reading Juan Salvo’s tutorial on “Share It Maybe”….
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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[Rob Mackintosh] “Playback was realtime (playback quality high) off my internal hard drive and even with the grade applied near realtime. Off faster storage and with a newer machine (I’m using a late 2009 iMac) I’d expect good performance.
“Rob, lovely work!
Resolve 9 gives me kernel panics! Sorry to trouble you but would you be so kind and let me know more about your iMac (late 2009)? I continually crash in Resolve 9 just adding to the Media Pool on my 2009 iMac with 16 GB RAM, 2 TB internal 7200 rpm drive, ATI 4850 GPU. I know my machine and card are not supported by BMD but I was functional with Resolve 8.2.
Thank you so much for any help! I suspect my problem is the GPU but I don’t know how to fix it.
ATI Radeon HD 4850:
Chipset Model: ATI Radeon HD 4850
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 512 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x944a
Revision ID: 0x0000
ROM Revision: 113-B9110C-425
EFI Driver Version: 01.00.383
Displays:
iMac:
Display Type: LCD
Resolution: 2560 x 1440
Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Built-In: Yes
Connection Type: DisplayPort
Apple Cinema HD Display:
Display Type: LCD
Resolution: 1920 x 1200
Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Rotation: SupportedRick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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[Rohit Gupta] “If you want to run V8 and V9 alongside, just make sure you don’t upgrade the V8 database when prompted after you install V9. Create a new DB for V9, and use it. If you want to go back to V8, just re-install V8, and it will work off the V8 database.”
My 2009 iMac with AMD Radeon 4850 GPU doesn’t quite satisfy the requirements of Resolve I understand. However it did run version 8.x Lite but not in real time – fair enough. However every attempt with Resolve 9.0b1 causes the iMac (Mountain Lion, 16 GB RAM) to crash to machine as soon as I try to add media (sometimes I get to play the media briefly, other times immediately on touching the media, it crashes the machine. I can skim media fine. I did create a new database so I thought I’ll go back to verify 8.2.2 works under Mountain Lion with my version 8 database. Reinstalled 8.2.2.
But 8.2.2 Lite won’t load saying I’m not licensed and abruptly quitting without letting me proceed in any way. Never had a licensing issue before with the Lite. Caught between a rock and a hard place. Ideal solution is to buy a new iMac but need to wait until 2013.
One problem solved: I downloaded 8.2.2 from BMD website rather than taking the version from my old Downloads folder on the iMac. 8.2.2 works fine for me once again. Nice if 9.0 would do the same so I can get ready for processing files from the Blackmagic Cinema Camera (2013).
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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[Rohit Gupta] “If you want to run V8 and V9 alongside, just make sure you don’t upgrade the V8 database when prompted after you install V9. Create a new DB for V9, and use it. If you want to go back to V8, just re-install V8, and it will work off the V8 database.”
My 2009 iMac with AMD Radeon 4850 GPU doesn’t quite satisfy the requirements of Resolve I understand. However it did run version 8.x Lite but not in real time – fair enough. However every attempt with Resolve 9.0b1 causes the iMac (Mountain Lion, 16 GB RAM, proper CUDA driver installed, nothing else using my precious GPU memory) to crash my machine as soon as I try to add media (sometimes I get to play the media briefly, other times immediately on touching the media, it crashes the machine. I can skim media fine. I did create a new database so I thought I’ll go back to verify 8.2.2 works under Mountain Lion with my version 8 database. Reinstalled 8.2.2.
But 8.2.2 Lite won’t load saying I’m not licensed and abruptly quitting without letting me proceed in any way. Never had a licensing issue before with the Lite. Caught between a rock and a hard place. Ideal solution is to buy a new iMac but need to wait until 2013.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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[Rohit Gupta] “If you want to run V8 and V9 alongside, just make sure you don’t upgrade the V8 database when prompted after you install V9. Create a new DB for V9, and use it. If you want to go back to V8, just re-install V8, and it will work off the V8 database.”
My 2009 iMac with AMD Radeon 4850 GPU doesn’t quite satisfy the requirements of Resolve I understand. However it did run version 8.x Lite but not in real time – fair enough. However every attempt with Resolve 9.0b1 causes the iMac (Mountain Lion, 16 GB RAM) to crash to machine. I did create a new database so I thought I’ll go back to verify 8.2.2 works under Mountain Lion with my version 8 database. Reinstalled 8.2.2.
But 8.2.2 Lite won’t load saying I’m not licensed and abruptly quitting without letting me proceed in any way. Never had a licensing issue before with the Lite. Caught between a rock and a hard place. Ideal solution is to buy a new iMac but need to wait until 2013.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Since I knew it worked for you, I tried to open it again today but did not elect to reopen the (unopened) window that was saved when I force quit it yesterday. Surprisingly, it came up fine with new windows today. So it must have been a glitch that has affected me and some other people on the first attempt at opening the application but after a shutdown I suppose it corrected itself.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB