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[Jan Heugel]

Hello everyone,

I want to share a quick info about using Resolve 8.2 and CUDA 4.2.
From tests at our workflow machines we erperienced issues using Cuda 4.2; it pops up with RAM (allocation) errors (4 or 3 GB instead of the installed 6GB). You can click the message ok and ignore it, but after about 45min of rendering Resolve brings up an error "out of memory"; rendering still goes on in the background but will crash sooner or later.

Therfore downgrade to 4.1.28: no issues.
You can find the 4.1 release over at Nvidia: http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit-41-archive

Kind regards,
Jan

[robstiff]

Resolve 9.0 should be out for use sometime this month.
It will be a big makeover compared to the previous version
including basic non-linear editing with audio; reducing the need
in many instances to use other programs for editing...

[Jan Heugel]

Yes, as per NAB 2012 BM announced the release for July.

[robstiff]

Resolve 9.0 Beta is now ready to download from Black Magic Design

[robstiff]

Resolve 9.0 Beta 2 is out now also. The built-in looks have been fun to play around with using Alexa footage.

[Greg Foad]

Rob, What are you running Resolve with and how happy are you with the number or nodes and render times you get?

I'm about to put some cards in my 2.26 Quad Core Mac Pro to see what I get. 

[robstiff]

We run the full version and the lite version all on iMac systems that range from 4-8 months old.
They all have 2GB with the AMD Radeon graphics processors and then systems have 16GB of RAM
with i7 processors.

Color correcting LogC 1920x1080 footage is fantastic with Resolve on these iMac systems.
We typically have 3-6 nodes per clip. The rendering is usually a littler slower or a little faster than realtime.

ARRIRAW , we first de-bayer the ARRIRAW (4:3) 2880x2160 and de-squeeze into 2880x1080 ProRes444 quicktimes.
Then we grade those quicktime in Resolve and it is very fast with the iMac systems.

Having Thunderbolt in these iMACs is essential or it can get a bit painful with file transfers!
Thunderbolt from the iMac is used with BlackMagicDesign's Ultra Studio 3D to output to the color grading monitor.

Which cards are you going to put into your system?

[Greg Foad]

I'll be putting these in:

GT120
Quadro 4000
Blackmagic Declink 3D

[Jamie Metzger]

go with a 580. I bought a 4000 earlier this year and while it's great, there are better video cards out now. Such is life.