Steve Macmillan
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Will the Mac version of DaVinci support stereo? If so, graphics card would be recommended? And should I assume a Decklink HD Extreme 3D is recommended for playback?
Yes, on the Mac you need the Decklink HD Extreme 3D. At NAB they talked about making the system as open as possible, but for starters this is the card you’ll need.
STeve
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As mentioned, Revival only runs under Linux and is a stand alone program and not a module within Resolve.
The demo at NAB was both impressive and concerning. They had before and after clips that were vastly improved, but not perfect. It seemed like either they could have gone a little further with the fixes or there were short comings. It seemed like stuff they had cleaned up would be harder to fix than the dirt that was still in the cleaned clips.
STeve
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I was told by one of the Black Magic experts that they would eventually support at least the JL Cooper ethernet panel.
I saw the Mac Resolve playback RED at half high and it looked fairly snappy. The Linux version was doing a full debayer and playback was just short of full speed, but smooth.
Yes it is meant to work with all QuickTime formats.
STeve
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The scopes are not included, and BM showed the UltraScope set up as a third screen in front of their new panels at NAB.
STeve
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I wonder if the Resolve can run side by side with a Linux DaVinci 2k, in order to keep telecine operations?
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I agree that the DaVinci rollout was the single most amazing thing at the NAB show. I can’t imagine that any post house or serious editor that hasn’t already invested in an expensive grading system, won’t snap this up. This will really democratize color grading. Quality grading will no longer be something that happens only in $500 per hour color suites. And great looks will be about the quality of the colorist and not so much about having $200k worth of gear.
I just hope they get the RED and 3D tools right. What I saw looked like a home run.
STeve
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I was under the impression talking to the Blackmagic reps at the NAB show that the DaVinci required a short list of Nvidia Quadro cards.
STeve
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The Blackmagic DaVinci panels are USB as is the Tagent Wave. JL Cooper and Euphonix are ethernet.
One of the guys I talked to at NAB said they had hacked the Wave to get it to work a couple of days before the show, and that Tagent was surprised to see it.
Another Black Magic guy said that our JL Cooper would definitely be supported and others said maybe.
Supporting a panel, no matter which port should be a fairly easy thing to accomplish if both companies put their mind to it.
The vibe I got, was that even though most of the program was working well on the Mac, that it was really early days and nobody but the software engineers knew all that much about it. It was just too new.
STeve
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I’m pretty sure this is a file based Resolve only. The DaVinci 2k had the telecine features.
STeve
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I just installed Final Cut Studio 3 on a fresh drive. I was really looking forward to trying out the improved round tripping to Color.
I have a standard def uncompressed 10bit sequence which I sent to Color. The first problem I noticed was that my Kona 3 card displayed the 4:3 sequence correctly in FCP, but Color showed it as a 3:3 squarish aspect ratio even though the Kona 3 output settings were the same.
When I round tripped some graded and rendered clips back to FCP, the round trip file came back with half the clips offline and many others too short.
I was able to successfully round trip the project by saving out a XML from Color and opening that in FCP. This gets old fast.
Since I have some real work to do tomorrow, its back to my original Final Cut Studio 2 drive.
I would not recommend blowing over your Final Cut Studio 2 drive with the new update until a few bugs are squashed.
STeve