Robert Houllahan
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Same machine but with GTX-480’s would be around $8k today, minus the Resolve Dongle and the Tangent Wave.
-Rob-
Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.comMAHC-PRO 6-Core 3X GTX285 20Tb SAS Wave Panel Panny 11UK SDI Plasma.
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Yes but the 8800 is not a really high performance card. I would try to go with a Gt-120 and a GTX-285 (flashed card on Ebay) for the best performance on that machine. To run a GTX card you will probably need a patch to allow OSX to run it…
-Rob-
Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.comMAHC-PRO 6-Core 3X GTX285 20Tb SAS Wave Panel Panny 11UK SDI Plasma.
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I am running a GTX-285 for the GUI which is best for a hackintosh I had tried a GT-120 and two 285 cards at one point early on and eventually just went with 3 X GTX-285’s for that machine which helped with stability. I am running a ASUS P6T7 WS “Supercomputer” board with a rewritten bios that makes it look like a Mac EFI. My disk array on this is a Atto raid to SAS chassis with 12 1Tb Deskstar drives. And I am still just using the Decklink SDI for monitoring. The machine is very very stable and I have graded everything from 2K DPX features to HDV shot Docs with no problems.
I built this machine when Resolve first came out and would run GTX-480’s or 580’s today. I think I am going to build a PC machine sometime this year. I have another chassis which has a 20 disk SAS backplane in it and think an all in one with 3 X GTX-580 cards will be a real screamer…
I think having a PC Resolve for max horsepower and a Mac resolve for an assist station plus writing Pro-Res is a fairly ideal setup.
-Rob-
Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.comMAHC-PRO 6-Core 3X GTX285 20Tb SAS Wave Panel Panny 11UK SDI Plasma.
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It will run Resolve but not in realtime, the bottleneck on the 1,1 Mac-Pro is the PCIe V1.0 slots which limit bandwidth on the GPU. I had a slightly later model Mac-Pro running Color with a Sata array and the fastest ATI card I could find and it was passable for that. I then got a GTX-285 card with a patch to run it on the older machine and that was the first machine I ran Resolve on. It worked but not anywhere near realtime, certainly not like the 3 GPU system I have now…..
-Rob-
Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.comMAHC-PRO 6-Core 3X GTX285 20Tb SAS Wave Panel Panny 11UK SDI Plasma.
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For a 4K capable Mac you probably need the 12-Core Mac-Pro and a 4-Bay Cubix expander for GPUs and a high performance storage solution maybe FC or an Atto SAS card and disk array or similar. Plus Red Rocket card(s) if the 4K is Red footage.
-Rob-
Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.comMAHC-PRO 6-Core 3X GTX285 20Tb SAS Wave Panel Panny 11UK SDI Plasma.
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It is fairly easy to share a NTFS partition on a mac and a HFS+ partition on a win 7 PC over a network, if you have a FC or 10G Ethernet connection you should not have any trouble (with network speed) using media from either machine on the other. In Resolve you would just add the folder with the DPX frames (on the smoke machine) into the media pool.
The Win-7 version of Resolve reads Pro-Res fine and as I said before if you had a second Resolve dongle for the Mac you could use the shared project feature to write Pro-Res from Resolve when needed.
-Rob-
Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.comMAHC-PRO 6-Core 3X GTX285 20Tb SAS Wave Panel Panny 11UK SDI Plasma.
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PC Resolve won’t write Pro-Res and you can’t have a Aja card and a BMD card in the same machine, they conflict. Have you considered two machines? Maybe you could have a second dongle for the Mac to run resolve (not using video I/O) and use a shared project with the PC resolve that could render out pro-Res on the Mac with Smoke?
-Rob-
Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.comMAHC-PRO 6-Core 3X GTX285 20Tb SAS Wave Panel Panny 11UK SDI Plasma.
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There are two settings in the setup window for timebase, do you have both set to 25fps? If you have only the playback framerate set to 25 and not the timecode too it won’t render 25fps.
-Rob-
Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.comMAHC-PRO 6-Core 3X GTX285 20Tb SAS Wave Panel Panny 11UK SDI Plasma.
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You could probably add one or two nVidia cuda capable cards (GTX470 or similar) and a raid to the machine you have and it would probably work fine.
-Rob-
Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.comMAHC-PRO 6-Core 3X GTX285 20Tb SAS Wave Panel Panny 11UK SDI Plasma.
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You can use that probe but you will need a software application to use it and calibrate the display and make the LUT. I use Lightspace with a X-Rite Hubble but I know that it works with the i1 too.
-Rob-
Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.comMAHC-PRO 6-Core 3X GTX285 20Tb SAS Wave Panel Panny 11UK SDI Plasma.