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Resolve for PC - When?

Christoffer Glans

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There is a shift happening, Avid and Adobe conquers more land from Apple each day and DNxHD is beginning to be the replacement codec for Prores in both cameras and post production.
But some are still pro Apple in their software, why?

I don't know how BlackMagic is dealing with this, but for most, with FCPX out of the way, they seek other NLE's and workflows. Avid has with version 6.0 become sort of a king among NLE's and Adobe is beginning to become a very good option for grading/compositing/VFX/online. Those combined it's a killer. I have both and I cannot find reason in buying an expensive Mac Pro when I can buy and build my own super computer PC for almost half the price of a Mac. Not to forget that Apple seem to view Mac Pro as dead and might be killing it off before or after next update.

So what does this mean? Well, if you are to work with heavy post production, having a very powerful PC with Adobe Production Suite and Avid Media Composer 6.0, dedicated to post production, stripped of all unnecessaries Windows have, it's just too good a station to be ignored.

But still no sign of Resolve full or lite coming to PC.
Why?

Adobe might integrate SpeedGrade into Adobe Premiere and if this is something BlackMagic fears as a competitor then why don't they release Resolve for PC?
Many who use Adobe's systems might have started out with that because they didn't have a mac, but a PC and didn't own FCP or color, so there might be more Adobe systems out there on PCs then on Macs.

These people will stop asking for Resolve for PC when SpeedGrade is avalible within Premiere or with dynamic link to Premiere. I'm one of them, but I like resolve and that is why I'm trying to make a point here.

There is no loss of any kind to BlackMagic if they release resolve on PCs. Their hardware works on PCs and that is where they get the most revenue.
Both Macs and PCs also have mostly the same hardware within; graphics card, processor, RAM etc. Mac doesn't even ship with an Nvidia card, so the CUDA acceleration is just there with PCs.

So why? Why is it so quiet about a PC version? There's a lot of shifts being made in the industry right now, away from Apple. BlackMagic doesn't have to abandon Apple when flowing down the workflow river, but I guarantuee they might just enjoy having a bigger boat.

So please, if anyone from BlackMagic is reading, at least look into the option, we are not few who want a PC version.
 
Resolve for Windows will be here sooner than you might think.... ;)
 
Speedgrade is not a panacea, that many think it is or it will be. It's better, than current built in tools for grading in CS5.5, but in it's present form, a stand lone Speedgrade is not that impressive. Unless Adobe introduces some dramatic improvements, BM has nothing to worry.
A proper support for common interchange standards, such as EDL, XML and AAF is much more important, than all this dynamic link business.
Resolve works diligently on making an easy roundtrip for a number of NLEs a reality, making it a truly NLE agnostic. Hence, please note a free license for MXF creation...
And finally, BM is known for a bulletproof stable software. Designing such software takes time. Rest assured, they are working on it...
 
I am so glad there is a shift back to PC...We can finally use the latest powerful hardware to improve our software performance. Plus it's nice to have software on both platforms thus not "imposing" anyone into choosing a specefic OS. :)
 
We demoed Resolve for Windows at this years IBC. And this week at Interbee. We've announced in several places it will be available in the first quarter of 2012. No sign?
 
Are we close enough to release to give us a hardware spec list?

Is it safe to assume it's much the same as the Linux specs?
 
Dwaine Maggart said:
We demoed Resolve for Windows at this years IBC. And this week at Interbee. We've announced in several places it will be available in the first quarter of 2012. No sign?
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Ok I missed that obviously, but with a censored word: F****N* awesome :)


I recon that there will e a lot of CUDA present in the windows version? Bought the 580 card which has at this time the most Cuda cores so I think I will be pretty safe. Only thing is to get the bandwidth for the material, but with DNxHD 444, my Avid MC 6.0 and Adobe production suite together with Resolve for windows I will have a very powerful one man post facility. :)
 
Will it be just the 999 USD version or will the Lite version also be avalible on windows? Also, does Resolve only work with BlackMagic cards? I currently own an MXO2 mini and I recon it doesn't work with Resolve, just wondering since the new Avid works with BlackMagic cards and Adobe also works with it, I might switch from Matrox when I get Resolve.
 
Christoffer Glans said:
Ok I missed that obviously, but with a censored word: F****N* awesome :)

I recon that there will e a lot of CUDA present in the windows version? Bought the 580 card which has at this time the most Cuda cores so I think I will be pretty safe. Only thing is to get the bandwidth for the material, but with DNxHD 444, my Avid MC 6.0 and Adobe production suite together with Resolve for windows I will have a very powerful one man post facility. :)
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I remember news about a demo Resolve for Windows system at IBC running 40+ nodes at HD real-time without breaking a sweat on 4x GTX 580 GPUs. So yes, the Windows version will surely be heavily GPU accelerated.
 
How does it handle 1x 580 GPU? It's 3GB memory doesn't count for much in this?
 
Timo Teravainen said:
Me neither. About GPU - Isn't GTX 590 theoretically the same as 2x GTX 580? Just wondering which card to buy. Sure, it's better to wait until the recommendations from Blackmagic appear.. but just wondering.
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590 is kind of between dual 570's and dual 580s. It has 2 GPUs with 512 CUDA each, similar to a dual 580 setup, but they are clocked lower, similar to 570s. Note though that 1 590 appears to the system as 2 separate GPUs, so if you are using the free resolve it may only use half of the card's capability (if i recall free resolve is limited to 1 gpu).
 
Correct, Resolve Lite is limited to 1 GPU. Note also that the 590 might have more cores but not double the internal RAM (there is a 3GB 580 card). GTX580 is performing very well in our R&D tests and the Resolve for Windows config guide when released will define a number of GPU/config options.
Peter
 
Peter, will there eventually be a Windows version of Resolve that does everything the Linux version does? Is the ultimate goal to move away from Linux and towards Windows, or will Blackmagic continue to support both for the forseeable future?
 
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