Robert Houllahan
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I think Co3 has done all of the Pirates films on Resolve and many others, this is not necessarily to place it above other solutions. I really like Baselight I think it is a great machine but I also think Filmlight’s business model is going to change because they, like DaVinci, are a software company. The 2K is still probably the most widely used color corrector in the world, and not just for dailies attached to a spirit. Tech, Deluxe, Postworks, Co3 etc. etc all still run five or six spirit rooms for dailies and nonlinear suites too. You can run disk to disk on a 2K with clipsters or a clipster and a SR deck. So I think one cannot minimize the weight of DaVinci machines both old and new on the “industry” and with BMD pouring in new features and a new business model I think this will drive the current market for grading, again.
-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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With enough cpu/gpu most things should not be a problem.
-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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And so here is another way to look at it, if I go and get a “bespoke” single seat solution and blow my whole “single man” shop budget on it is that better than a “Cheap” solution?
Say I go and get a gassed up Resolve, even a Linux version, and that is $100K and then I go and setup several seats of Revival, a seat of OSX Smoke and a Arri Relativity suite plus plugins and LightSpace and monitoring for all of those. Am I better off? Can I maybe get some other employees to do work on other suites and have more overall work done than with a single seat?
Or lets ask the question is Resolve only a “Bespoke” solution when Stefan is sitting in front of it with Jim Cameron at Co3? And if that is the case isn’t it really the talent behind the gear anyway at the end of the day?
-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 had a Baseligh four on demo for three months, I like it it is a great machine and yes it has some nice features like a multi layer timeline. I demoed all the other machines too. I am aware of the sales pitch, I know Film-Master has the “Best” noise reduction tools… Did I mention we can reduce noise???…. I did not see a huge difference between Resolve and Lustre unless you were sitting in an all Autodesk shop. If you want a universal tool maybe Smoke or Mistika is what you should look at. Resolve fills my needs for doing Color Grading and BMD is adding features and function. I make and grade mostly Film and Resolve is a great fast tool for doing feature film work.
-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 was not under that impression I have updated the Decklink driver without trouble on my machine.
-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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Did you try updating the Decklink driver? I think 7.9.6 was a bit buggy…
-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 run a set of 3 GTX 285’s and I am probably going to add a fourth 285, they are very powerful GPUs but they are a two slot card unless you water cool them (As I do) and there is certainly not room in a Mac-Pro for a water cooling 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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I thought the latest Mac-Pro ATI GPUs were single slot, I have not looked. And yes I guess two X16 slots for the 4000’s and 2 X8 slots for the GUI and Decklink….In a current Mac-Pro. I have four X16 slots and three x8 slots so I think Apple is slacking.
-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 would dump the 5770 and get a single slot GPU for the GUI then, plus 2 x 4000’s for Resolve GPUs.
-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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If the radeon is a single slot GPU then sure, which I think it is, if you get two 4000’s and use an internal raid in your Mac-Pro and leave the last slot for the Decklink Video I/O that is a system with very good GPU performance.The 4000 has more GPU horsepower than the 4800 and two of them have twice that and everything will fit in the Mac-pro.
-Rob-
Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.comMAHC-PRO 6-Core 3X GTX285 20Tb SAS Wave Panel Panny 11UK SDI Plasma.