This IS the Avid L2: [Avid-L2] Re: Resolve on Symphony

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

[Avid-L2] Re: Resolve on Symphony

How does Symphony react when you install extra GPUs for Resolve?

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Dylan Reeve <dylan@...> wrote:
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> Sorry I'm late to the party on this.
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> I can/have run Symphony and Resolve together on the same system. In fact I
> can run them both that the same time... The Symphony sees the Nitris and
> Resolve sees the Decklink and they seem to leave each other alone.
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> Symphony seems to have a priority in the way it scans for I/O hardware,
> presumably the Avid hardware is first. If the Nitris is connected it uses
> that and shows no signs of seeing or caring at all about the Decklink.
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> My system is:
> Z800 Dual X5650 2.66GHz proc
> 18GB RAM (may have been using 12GB at some point with this setup too).
>
> NVidia Quadro FX3800
> NVidia GeForce GTX580 3GB
> Avid Nitris DX
> Blackmagic Decklink SDI
> Myricom 10Gb Ethernet
>
> Sorry, I can't recall or easily check the slot configuration on those cards.
>
> I was using Symphony 6.0.1 and Resolve 8.2 I think. I recently upgraded to
> Resolve 9 Beta 1 which still works fine, but I have tested Symphony since
> doing that. This is on a secondary boot drive in my system, for most of my
> work I'm still using Symphony 5.0 and no Resolve on the main boot drive.
>
> The closest thing I've had to a problem is that Resolve and Symphony can't
> seem to agree on a graphic driver they like. I upgraded to the newer
> version that Resolve likes and Symphony complains about it, but I ignore
> that with no obvious ill effects in the work I was doing on it. I believe
> there is a way to hack the driver versions that Symphony will consider
> acceptable but I haven't tried it.
>
> Dylan Reeve
> http://dylanreeve.com/
>
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> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Scott E. Smith <scottesmith1@...>wrote:
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> > It sounds like a few of you are running Resolve on Symphony without the
> > decklink card- so what are you using for external monitoring, especially on
> > a Z800?
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