RCX-Pro, FCPX or DaVinci... For Personal small Fashion Films/Shorts Editing/Coloring?

[Mark T Workman]

I bought FCP X and a 13" macbook pro, plan to work on at least one project with MX files before moving over to Scarlet Dragon.

However, I'd like something "stand alone" pc that works Dragon files with my super computer and so that will not be an Adobe product! Perhaps it will be time to move to Resolve for Version 12 in July!

 

[Ketch Rossi]

After going thru some of the DaVinci Resolve "Paid" lessons I must admit and agree with those here that stated it wasn't going to be an easy learning curve...

But, agreeing also to those that said it would be my best choice for the tasks at hand...

I AM LOVING IT!!


Oh, and just wanted to thank again every one for having taken their time to comment in to this thread, as always you know is much appreciated!

 

[Mark T Workman]

After going thru some of the DaVinci Resolve "Paid" lessons I must admit and agree with those here that stated it wasn't going to be an easy learning curve...

But, agreeing also to those that said it would be my best choice for the tasks at hand...

I AM LOVING IT!!


Oh, and just wanted to thank again every one for having taken their time to comment in to this thread, as always you know is much appreciated!

Agreed Ketch! This is a very useful thread! Other question that comes to mind for our Resolve post experts are:

Can you recommend an effective GPU upgrade that should work well for Resolve Version 12 in PC/Win 7?

Can you stack GPUs for increased performance with Resolve or is it restricted to one GPU?

Resolve can read/correct raw Dragon files, Yes?

Thanks again for helping out with our future work station choices!

 

[Nick Pasquariello]

Agreed Ketch! This is a very useful thread! Other question that comes to mind for our Resolve post experts are:

Can you recommend an effective GPU upgrade that should work well for Resolve Version 12 in PC/Win 7?

Can you stack GPUs for increased performance with Resolve or is it restricted to one GPU?

Resolve can read/correct raw Dragon files, Yes?

Thanks again for helping out with our future work station choices!

1) The more GPU power, the better. Resolve eats all of it. If you're working in 4K, you need a lot of VRAM. So it really comes down to what you can afford. Works well with both NVidia and AMD processors, but most that have the choice go with NVidia.

2) Resolve Lite is limited to one GPU. The full license of Resolve will use as many GPUs as your hardware can support.

3) Resolve can debayer and decode R3D files of all types, and lets you tweak the metadata on a per-project and a per-clip basis. If you lack the proper computing power, though, you won't be able to work with 6K files in real-time. You do have options for only debayering 1/2 res or 1/4 res for R3D files, just like any software that utilizes the Red SDK.

 

[Antony Newman]

Ketch,

I started the LYNDA Essential training this morning (v11). Just hitting Chapter 3 / 17.

Thoughts so far : Nice - bite sized videos / I actually think Resolve makes better use of the screen (so far) than FCPX.

I guess the steep learning curve is ahead of me - but so far, everything seems clean and logical.

AJ

EDIT: Lite version uses both D700 GPUs on a Mac Pro ... Still pretty choppy though....

 

[Mark T Workman]

1) The more GPU power, the better. Resolve eats all of it. If you're working in 4K, you need a lot of VRAM. So it really comes down to what you can afford. Works well with both NVidia and AMD processors, but most that have the choice go with NVidia.

2) Resolve Lite is limited to one GPU. The full license of Resolve will use as many GPUs as your hardware can support.

3) Resolve can debayer and decode R3D files of all types, and lets you tweak the metadata on a per-project and a per-clip basis. If you lack the proper computing power, though, you won't be able to work with 6K files in real-time. You do have options for only debayering 1/2 res or 1/4 res for R3D files, just like any software that utilizes the Red SDK.

The computer I built before buying my Scarlet MX uses a Gigabyte X58-A board with an i7 980x six core and maxed out at 24 GB Ram. However, a few year's back this was rated the fastest motherboard for bench marks as it could stack 4 GPUs I believe which gave it some great bench mark tests. Haven't made use of those extra GPU slots effectively yet but it looks like it is time, along with cloning the boot drive over to SSD!

I couldn't justify spending $44.5K for Weapon at this time but given that I will have NOTHING to run raw Scarlet Dragon files effectively without transcoding, I can certainly justify these expenses! Thanks a lot for your advice! Looks like I've got something to look forward to in PC land as well as mac!

 

[Mark T Workman]

Another question on FCP X I'm a bit curious about: Is Red Rocket help for Dragon performance a smart option on mac laptops?

I'm using a 2.8 GHz i7 on a 13" macbook pro laptop with 16GB Ram and it runs 4k MX R3D ok but I'm looking mostly at 5K 23.976 lip synch as the important editing material for this unit in the future...

 

[Ketch Rossi]

Ketch,

I started the LYNDA Essential training this morning (v11). Just hitting Chapter 3 / 17.

Thoughts so far : Nice - bite sized videos / I actually think Resolve makes better use of the screen (so far) than FCPX.

I guess the steep learning curve is ahead of me - but so far, everything seems clean and logical.

AJ

EDIT: Lite version uses both D700 GPUs on a Mac Pro ... Still pretty choppy though....

Yeah I used lynda.com for several year up till 2011, that is how I learned just about all programs I still use, mainly Photoshop, but for DaVinci Resolve I went to look to different sources, one been Ripple Training: http://www.rippletraining.com/categories/davinci-resolve/ and Film Simplified: http://filmsimplified.com/courses/

I guess thinking that this would be better, or done by higher level pros then at Lynda.com as I have found many times some of their lessons to be reached by less then Pro users, and in manners that were less then pleasing to watch, and actually when I get bored is when I quit faster...

But haven't seen their DaVinci Resolve lessons, so won't comment on those...