| Hey, Jonathan, that's great news. Nice to see when a few lines of text help lead to a favorable conclusion. You sure got that card fast and at a very decent price. We run our cards 24/7 and have never had one break down, unlike our Red Rocket card, which has burned up a couple of times. You can actually do digital dailies out of Davinci without having to deal with a Red Rocket and Red Cine X. Davinci will handle all the calculations with your new Cuda card.
I was actually upset with Black Magic when they came out with a free version of Resolve after just purchasing two full priced licenses. The free version gives you a great deal of power in a free piece of software and yes you will be yearning for a control surface soon, rest assured.
Good luck
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Thanks to Jim Curtis, Todd Kopriva, Jack Tunnicliffe and Steve Oakley for the information and tips.
Todd, your post was very helpful in understanding the process.
Jack, I've been following your posts about the GTX 285 and Davinci Resolve for a while now, so your reply was especially helpful. I jumped over to eBay and the card is now sitting on my desk. Thanks for that link – much appreciated. I didn't realize that the free version of Davinci Resolve was fully functional. As of yet, I haven't had reason to go above HD so this is terrific. (Raising a bottle of Yerba Mate in honor of Grant Petty.) A friend works at a post house with Resolve systems and I'm hoping to get over there. Of course, I'll no doubt be yearning for a surface, a Flanders Scientific monitor and all the rest of the toys. I'll get there but it may take a while.
Thanks again to all who chimed in and to the list.
Jonathan
On Feb 12, 2013, at 8:18 AM, Jack Tunnicliffe wrote: This might surprise you but I'd suggest an NVIDIA GTX 285 if you are going for a Mac compatible card. It sounds like you want to move into the Davinci world and if you do this is the best card on a Mac. They can be a little hard to find but we managed to pick up a couple of the Mac versions of these cards on ebay. I think we paid about $500 per card.
We run several Davinci Resolve systems here and the GTX 285 is faster than the Quadro 4000, even though its a newer and supposedly faster card. I purchased the 4000 thinking I'd up my performance and soon realized my real time performance was reduced in Resolve, less nodes of correction with the 4000 and went back to the 285.
You can install the Lite version of Resolve for free. It is fully functioning unless you decide you want to work at resolutions beyond HD for renders out. Otherwise Resolve is a fully functioning application, which still blows me away. You can contact me off the list if you need any further information. We have a lot of experience with Resolve systems.
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