Robbie Carman
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Plus 1 on the Ultrascopes. I recently sold a set of Omniteks as they were just overkill and I’ve been very happy with the Ultrascope. I did the turnkey solution from B&H for about $1500
I can’t wait until even logging is in place and maybe even an I bar for the vectorscope!!
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yeah I did this the other day on a short piece and everything worked just fine.
Add all the R3Ds to the media pool. Take your FCP EDL and conform but make sure on the config tab and then settings you enable extract reel names from comments as the default 8 characters won’t cut it for the way the RED reels are named.
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add one more to that list. My GTX was also originally over clocked by NVIDA at the factory for PC then flashed. Its about 3-4% faster then stock
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I’ve seen this a ton with ProRes HQ and HQ only and its random. Try re-ingesting those clips again see if you have the same issue. Also as Noah suggests check the footage on your memory cards to see its not an issue there
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Here is the thing. There are probably lots of different combinations of cards, computers etc that “will work” but the team at BM has done a lot of testing to bring the Resolve to market. My feeling is that even though something might work why take the chance? The last thing that I want to happen is in the middle of a supervised session things go wrong. I’ve been running the GT120 + GTX285 in an early 2009 2.93 8 Core and the machine screams, haven’t had any serious issues at all. Talking to the Resolve team they’re very very dedicated to qualifying new graphics cards and machines as they come to market and they can test them.
I have both the FX4800 and the GTX 285 (which is installed) while the FX4800 is a more expensive card and much easier to find at this point, you do get much better performance out of the 285. I tested this about two weeks ago extensively.
I know a lot of people who want to run one machine for Resolve and Color. Personally I’m not doing that but I spent all day on friday and most of yesterday testing this just to see. (I have two machines one for Color one for resolve with a KVM between them) I want to be clear what I’m about to say is not recommended by Apple and probably not by BM but all worked well. The big secret? I simply switched my monitors from being plugged into the GT120 for Resolve and plugged them into the GTX 285 to run Color. I had some problems if I tried to do this while the system was booted so if you’re going to try this experiment I’d recommend shutting down first. After rebooting I was able to run Color just fine, rendering on the GTX 285 (which color will use since its the card plugged in) seemed to be as fast if not faster then the ATI 4870 that I previously had in that system. You have to run in either 8 bit or Floating point but for me is fine since I run Color in floating point even with ATI cards.
Again THIS CONFIG IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. Not what I will be doing so your milage my vary. Personally the “hacking” type approach to running these systems makes me nervous in a professional setting. I trust that BM is not just telling us what cards and machines to run just “because” but because they’ve spent the time and effort to really test these configurations as robust setups ready for demanding client work.
For what its worth you can find GT120s and GTX 285s on ebay for very cheap. I just looked- GT120’s for about $80-100 and GTX285s for about $400. If you have the machine already spending $1500 for the software and two cards seems like a no brainer to be on a system as powerful and robust as Resolve.
Robbie Carman
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btw Illya. At IBC BM has a version of ultrascopes with alarm and logs. Not sure when shipping. But a welcomed upgrade
Robbie Carman
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[Gil Woodley] “Same goes for anybody else beta testing the software: any experiences with RED?”
On my system (early 2009 2.93 8 Core with GT120, GTX285) RED footage has been really solid. I’ve been getting realtime playback at quarter (good) and half (good) consistently no problem. At half if I get heavy handed with a grade I see a few frame drop in playback but nothing crazy. For me this performance with RED footage is outstanding compared to say Apple Color. Very useful also is the ability to adjust red settings on a clip basis by right clicking on each clip.
I’ve been testing offline/online with red footage conforming back to the original R3Ds and that also seems to be working great.
Next week when I return from IBC I have a loaner RED Rocket card I’m going to try out, I’ll have to pull my HBA for my storage but I have 6TB RAID 0 internally which should work. I’m looking forward to those tests as the RED rocket should offer crazy performance gains with RED footage.
Robbie Carman
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[Robbie Carman] “powerful system Resolve is if you don’t run it on the recommended systems from BM. “
oops i meant run it on a recommended system!
Robbie Carman
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[Jay Lee] “Guys is it possible to run 2 x Apple displays with this configuration?”
yeah you’ll just need one of the mini display port to DVI adapters for the second display as the GT120 has one mini display port and one DVI connection
Robbie Carman
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[Sascha Haber] “Could anyone with a laptop try and plug in a second display , please.”
I have a MacBook Pro with a second screen NVIDIA graphics. I installed it on there to test (because I was curious) For feeling out the app it works just fine. Although you’ll be warned about the video card on startup, and obviously performance will suffer since its not a recommended system. You really won’t be able to see what a powerful system Resolve is if you don’t run it on the recommended systems from BM.
On my 2009 Mac Pro with GTX285 and GT120 the app is blazing fast and continues to impress me on a daily and sometimes hourly basis
Robbie Carman
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