[Ryan Snook]

Any good places for finding used/refurbished Flanders LM-2140W? If not, I’ll be saving… I’m sold!

[Ryan Snook]

Very insightful, thank you. I definitely want to get started off the right foot – with an actual grading monitor. Was the Panasonic I posted about sufficient, do you think? I’ll definitely look for something in the classified ads too. So will it be something I can manually calibrate or have to buy calibrated and take it in for calibration somewhat regularly?

Thanks!

[Ryan Snook]

In regards to the NEC as well. Take a look at how the device and software calibrate it. Sound promising? I’m looking for feedback.

https://www.necdisplay.com/spectra-view-II

Cheers

[Ryan Snook]

Would something like the:

NEC MultiSync PA241W-BK-SV 24.1″ Widescreen LCD Monitor with SpectraViewII Color Calibration Solution (B&H and NEC site for details)

have the options for calibrating for Rec709 and hold up well enough for lower budget color correcting in Resolve? I really like the price, and I’m just trying to work with a $1500 – $2000 budget and getting my displays set up here one at a time. I was originally looking into the HP DreamColor and then someone said the x-rite i1 probes wouldn’t do as good as a job calibrating it than the specific ~$500 one designed for the DreamColor.

I’m open for suggestions. I’m looking between 24″-27″ and something that can be calibrated to grade for Rec709.

Cheers

[Ryan Snook]

So something as far back as a 2008 Mac Pro with 2x quad core CPUs (8 total cores) with 24gb of RAM, and the GT120, and GTX285… Something like this would most likely be under $2800 used. This would hit up 4k footage? With/without Red Rocket?

[Ryan Snook]

dual core, quad core, 6 core, 12 core? Which for 2k, which for 4k? Anyone have concrete details on any purchasable hardware?

[Ryan Snook]

If we were say to stay on the Mac Pro route vs the Hackintosh route what would be the minimum desired processor speed for a good resolve system? If I bought a Mac Pro with low-end RAM, low-end HDD, low-end video card. Then after, upgrade the RAM, HDD, Video Cards for a significantly lower price than direct apple upgrades.

Would you see something like this being in the $2500 range. What are the desired video cards for resolve right now excluding any that cost over 600 a pop.

Thanks for the aide in this rough process to get things going!

[Ryan Snook]

Ok cool – I shot you an email.

[Ryan Snook]

Yeah it sounds really neat. I work in the IT field so it wouldn’t be necessarily impossible to battle these hack battles, but I was nervous about spending a bunch of money and then only having a windows capable PC in the end. What do you think of the current Mac Pro models maybe using the macvideocards flashed cards? What would you personally recommend for someone like me looking to spend about $2500 for a machine good enough to run FCP, CS5.5 Resolve all at 2k footage and mess with some R3D files?

Thanks!

[Ryan Snook]

Wow that was a lot more expensive than I imagined. What is jacking the price up so high? The drives? What if I were to get Case, PSU, CPU, RAM, Video, MOBO, etc and 1 internal SSD and worry about more internal/external storage in the future? The hardware seems a lot cheaper than buying a set Mac Pro isn’t it? What would that cost look like? Also, are there Mac drivers for the 580s? Do they work well on resolve? How difficult is it setting up the Hackintosh – just a BIOS flash away or kext battles?

Thanks!