This IS the Avid L2: [Avid-L2] Re: Some information from the Blackmagic Event in Burbank

Saturday, July 27, 2013

[Avid-L2] Re: Some information from the Blackmagic Event in Burbank

That was mentioned but IIRC there was concern about the 870 being a PC only card. Titan was not discussed. I don't know if they meant that the 870 was PC only or if Resolves use of it might be PC only. I'd suggest further research if trying to future proof, which in this day and age is impossible IMHO. The next gen mac pro was also mentioned and they said that there next version of software should perform quite well on it. In this case I don't know if they were talking about the next version of V9 or V10 but the vibe was Resolve will work well on the next gen MacPro even if it looks like a giant Kong dog toy to some of us. ;-)

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, namyrb <namyrb@...> wrote:
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> By the time Resolve 10 comes out, they'll probably be telling you to get
> the GTX 780 or the Titan.
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> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Bogdan Grigorescu <
> bogdan_grigorescu@...> wrote:
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> > Care to share the name of the engineers you spoke to? IhHave a couple of
> > questions for them...
> > Also, you clearly stated to them that you are on a Mac with no expansion
> > chassis - right?
> >
> > thx,
> > BG
> > www.finale.tv
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> > ________________________________
> > From: John Moore <bigfish@...>
> > To: Avid L2 <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>; "resolve-l@yahoogroups.com" <
> > resolve-l@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 10:56 PM
> > Subject: [Avid-L2] Some information from the Blackmagic Event in Burbank
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> > I made it to the Blackmagic event in Burbank and got to speak with the
> > two local Davinci techs from Blackmagic. There seems to have been some
> > misinformation from our Resolve consultant regarding the proper video
> > card to use. According to Blackmagic we should have installed the
> > GTX-680 that was suggested to me by many others. The Blackmagic
> > engineer told me that is their preferred card of choice today. They
> > also told me that when we tested the two Quadro 4000 cards we were
> > either running outdated software or the system was mis-configured not to
> > utilize both cards. The last two software builds allow two graphics
> > cards to work with Resolve without one being solely dedicated to the QUI
> > interface. When they added the second card either they forgot to update
> > the software or they were unaware of the new capabilities. Also it was a
> > surprise to me that regardless of what we've been told Resolve actually
> > runs better using the Red R3D raw files than with Avid DNX 220 media.
> > Apparently the Avid media is more
> > cpu intensive on Resolve, in a symphony the Nitris DX handles the DNX
> > decoding so it plays well but in Resolve it is very taxing on the CPU.
> > It would definitely be worth looking into swapping our Quadro 4000
> > card for a GTX-680, a quick google search shows that the 4000 card is
> > two to three times more expensive than the GTX-680 and I don't
> > understand why we were told that was not the right card for Resolve.
> >
> > As far as our workflow issues with round tripping the Davinci techs want
> > to take a look at our aaf and see what they can find out. I believe I
> > got to the bottom of many of the issues but the skipping frames seems to
> > be something that will require more research on Blackmagic's end. As far
> > as I can tell there is still an issue with mixed drop and non drop source
> > time code. The Blackmagic engineers said that 9.1.15 the latest build had
> > some improvements there but as I was testing with 9.1.15 it seems there are
> > still issues. Not being able to have mixed source codes really makes round
> > tripping not very viable for most of my shows.
> >
> > I was glad to get to talk with the engineers and they seem willing to pass
> > on the questions to the design folks so hopefully more will be revealed.
> >
> > John Moore
> > Barking Trout Productions
> > Studio City, CA
> > bigfish@...
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