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These will probably come to work on the Mac Pro’s 2 years after the PC version! 🙁
Provided there actually is a Mac Pro 2 years from now to put the card into…..
Ryan Holmes
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Resolve is all about the grahpics card(s). One of the limitations of the “lite” version is only being able to use 1 GPU (graphics card). The paid version you can attach 2, 3, or more graphics cards and use it for realtime processing. You’ll need to download the manual and read through their certified configurations. You may need to look at swapping your graphics card out for something more powerful if you’re serious about using Resolve at realtime speeds.
But every system has its limits. And you don’t always need completely realtime color grading playback for every scenario. Unless you’re heavily client driven (i.e. client sits behind you and says yes/no, change this, etc.) you may not need an extremely high-end system. Having something playback at 21fps or 17fps may be alright. Just bear in mind that the more nodes you use the more processing your demanding. Color grading is very processor intensive. So if you want realtime with 10 nodes, it just costs $$$$$$! 😉
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Rip the file into a QuickTime .mov movie file using either DV NTSC, ProRes, or DNxHD as the codec. You could also make an AVI file if you are on a Windows box. Again, insert the codec of your choice into the AVI container and import into your NLE.
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[Jonny Michel] “Do you use Davinci yourself? “
Yes. It’s a great program. If you’re looking at getting into it I’d recommend downloading the “Lite” version which is free. Start experimenting on that and learn there. If you need the additional features that the paid version has you can spring for that when necessary.
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[Jonny Michel] “So say I moved onto a camera such as Blackmagic, as the recording format DNxHD or ProRes, are these better formats to work with?”
I would argue that DNxHD (and ProRes) are “better” codecs than AVCHD or h.264. However, for certain job types and demographics AVCHD may be perfectly suitable. There isn’t much that is a hard rule here. I’m just trying to offer a “best-practices” workflow. So in many workflows DNxHD/ProRes is preferable to h.264. In my workflow all the material that we shoot gets transcoded to a standard codec, typically ProRes. That works well between our various editing workstations as well as in multiple programs – Premiere Pro, After Effects, Resolve, Smoke.
If you start shooting any of the Blackmagic cameras you’re going to need to increase your storage size. ProRes (HQ) and CinemaDNG take considerably more space than the AVCHD. So you’re shooting at a 24Mbps data rate with your NX5 currently. If you move to ProRes (HQ) on the Blackmagic camera you’re looking at 220Mbps – a nearly 10X increase. So just do your math and see if you have the capability to handle that. And be aware that ProRes can be read on a PC but not written to (i.e. exported). So you can read the ProRes file but you can’t create a new ProRes file
For playback, you can drop the quality of the video inside of PPro as well (I think CS5 could do this…I know 5.5/6 does). So you can drop it from “Full Quality” to “1/2” or “1/4.” The lower quality takes less system resources and allows you to playback smoother. It’s a small drop down menu in the canvas window.
Ryan Holmes
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Handbrake is a less than ideal solution for what you’re doing. Handbrake is more intended for you to rip a DVD for use on your iProduct or Android device while taking that long flight somewhere. It’s not meant to rip the file into a quality format intended for editing.
What you should be using is MPEG Streamclip – https://www.squared5.com
Works for either Windows or Mac, and it allows you to rip the DVD off into a codec/format of your choice. It’s free to download and use.
Ryan Holmes
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You can also just drag-and-drop the sequences from PPro into AME. Highlight all 18 in PPro, make sure AME is open and visible, then just do a simple drag from PPro and drop into AME. I prefer Victor’s way for sure, but you can do the old drag-and-drop solution if you feel inclined.
Ryan Holmes
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If you press the “info” button several times doesn’t it cycle through different options….one of which removes some (all?) of the on screen information?
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[Evan Thompson] “But what if I went over 20 Mbps, like say 100 Mbps to make it look it’s best for YouTube?”
There’s nothing inherently wrong with doing this. You’re just going to have a file that’s about 3.8GB for a 5 minute video. If you have the bandwidth (both speed and cap size) to upload this then I don’t see anything wrong with it. As I said, YouTube will convert the file to its own spec upon upload.
If you really want to bypass your encoding then just upload a full-quality Quicktime movie straight out of the PPro. You could use ProRes (if your on a Mac). YouTube will take a ProRes .mov file and convert it.
Ryan Holmes
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[Evan Thompson] “What is the best or max Bitrate for YouTube uploads?
Is there a file size limit for YouTube?
Is it possible to get perfect quality on YouTube, or does it have to lose some quality?”Vimeo has a good compression guidelines page. I would start there with your settings: https://vimeo.com/help/compression
YouTube will accept up to a 20GB file. Once you upload your video to YouTube they will recompress it again. So when you watch on YouTube you’re not seeing the file you uploaded, you’re seeing a recompressed version of the file you uploaded. Compression is all about size vs. data rate trade offs. The higher the data rate the bigger the file. If you’re fine with uploading a 3.45GB file to YouTube, then there’s nothing stopping ya.
Ryan Holmes
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