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[Eric Mueller] “There have been big issues with the CUDA driver on Yosemite with Premiere and a few other applications (there are long threads in both the Premiere forum here and on Adobe). The problem has been going on for over a year and no one from Apple or NVIDIA will comment on the timeline for a fix. The best solution has been to move to Open CL…which happens to be where Apple is currently headed with its hardware.”
With CUDA folks can use the some of the same code on multiple platforms.
And yes, I consider Yosemite a virus. This morning I partitioned an external Thunderbolt 2 drive and put Yosemite and R12 Studio Beta on it and the Resolve installer installed a version of CUDA that works with R12. I have not tried Media Composer on that system yet.
Considering Avid and others are also having trouble with Yosemite one can hope that El Capitan is much more solid.
Pros should not update! This is well known but yet some experienced folks still do it.
This Late 2013 MBP 15″ Retina is on 10.9.5 . My legacy Mac Pro is on 10.8.5 or 10.8.6 .
Y’all be cool,
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[Michael Phillips] “I doubt Fotokem has any units yet unless they have early units and MC software to support it. The press release is the usual one you see with company releases meant to validate the product more than anything.”
You’re probably right. I’ll probably contact one of their colorists who posts online.
[Michael Phillips] “I’m guessing Otober’ish along with the new free Media Composer|First.”
I thought I saw something that said 3rd quarter which would be by the end of September so you may be right. Still expect someone will get a pre-release unit for review.
Hope your weekend is going well,
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[Eric Mueller] “Given Apple’s direction toward AMD and Open CL, it seems like CUDA may be on the tail end of its life in the Mac OS.”
Apple uses both Nvidea and AMD GPUs. Not sure other than price why they went to AMD in the MBPs and trashcan. Glad I have the Late 2013 version of the MBP Retina 15″.
I would not be surprised if the next refreshes go back to Nvidea.
Also, don’t forget that some highend features are still graded on legacy Mac Pros with Nvidea cards as well as product from bottomfeeders like me.
Y’all be cool,
RobertRobert A. Ober
IT Consultant, Vidcaster, & Freelancer
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As there is no dedicated Fusion forum but as well my question being also general, I post here.
There is a Fusion forum on the Blackmagic Design site.
Robert
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[Trevor Ambrose] “For some reason, my second monitor won’t go full screen. I cut with only two monitors ie. left monitor is for bins and timeline ect. and right is Full Screen video – I don’t use a 3rd client monitor.”
Are you at 1920×1080 ? Also, have you tried different versions of the Nvidea web driver?
You know the GT120 and 6GB of memory is real marginal?
Good Fortune,
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So they are sending mixed signals. I found this FAQ that indicates that ProTools support may not be enabled at launch.
https://avid.force.com/pkb/KB_Render_FAQ?id=kA0i0000000XxOT&lang=en_US
It also says released later in 2015. I’m thinking they are having issues with it. Makes me wonder how well the Fotokim units are behaving.
Y’all have some fun,
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[Michael Phillips] “I wish MC would allow for video and audio to have two different I/O devices. “
Absolutely! With the ability to use third party devices now a reality I would not be surprised to see that happen eventually. I believe we could do that in FCP7.
Maybe I mentioned it, but the DNxIO should be really nice for those of us in the Resolve to MC to ProTools To MC to Resolve workflow. I am hoping Resolve 12 does support MC transitions, etc better for finishing and will install on Mavericks. I consider Yosemite a virus and even though BMD says it’s required I am hoping they back down from that. We have let them know and I have a dongle.
Take it EZ,
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[Michael Phillips] “I just saw via facebook, via twitter that Pro Tools will not support the DNxIO. Considering it’s audio limitations, I don’t think I would make this my first choice based on its price point to do video monitoring. “
FUD from competitors?
ProTools support is listed in the specs for the DNXIO on Avid’s website. It would be pretty odd for a new Avid device not to support ProTools.
BTW, I also have some nice UAD Apollo interfaces for audio. Recommended.
Y’all have a good week,
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[Blaise Douros] “My company owns the FS7, and I work with it several times a week, both shooting and editing. It can apply LUTs selectively to different monitor outputs; but if you apply the LUT to the SDI-1 output, it will also bake it to the footage. This is pretty clearly labelled in the menu, so it sounds like this AC was not really paying attention. Not that I’m blaming and shaming, since I have done the same thing. My guess is that they were trying to get the waveform to display in the monitor, which it won’t unless you apply the LUT to all outputs.
Regardless, I think you’ll find that the footage is still eminently gradeable. At Rec709, it is still retaining a lot of usable color data at 10-bit 4:2:2. Good luck!
“Well said.
I own and FS7 and an Odyssey 7Q+ . I would suggest buying or renting an Odyssey 7Q+ and using that for viewing thru SDI2 or HDMI when shooting in Slog with a FS7. Starting with the 2015.5 firmware, the Oddy can send different LUTS to the display, SDI A IO, and SDI B IO. One can feed a video village or DP monitor with a LUT and not the display. Or put LC709A on the display and a standard 709 on the feed to the Video Village large TV.
Not anyone’s employee, just very impressed with the LUT capability of the 7Q/7Q+. Convergent Design has a LUT explanation video on Youtube.
Y’all be cool,
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[Marc Wielage] “Wow, this question keeps coming back. Export your material with 5 seconds of SMPTE bars and 5 seconds of 10-step grayscale at the head, then look at the renders on a scope (and a color-managed display). See how that looks. “
Uh, Marc, he said he fixed it.
Decaf? 🙂