Dan LaSusa wrote:Hi all,
I know there is a Linux version of DaVinci Resolve, but I was curious about a few things...
1. Are there any specific distros known to work better or worse with Resolve? And by "better" I just mean more "out of the box" without needing a ton of tinkering. I don't mind SOME tinkering, just don't want to spend all weekend, or several days (or more) tinkering trying to get it to work.
I personally use Debian and PopOS (Debian/Ubuntu based) using this project to run Resolve out of Docker (although Podman is fully supported too).
https://github.com/fat-tire/resolve2. Are there things (Resolve functionality) that simply don't work in the Linux version?
The biggest beef (as documented on this thread) is import h264 video in general -- and even if you have Studio, AAC audio is not supported -- and that's a problem for cell phone recorded clips. The Resolve container packaging project has a compile/build option to give your a software h264 software encoder (x264) that, arguably, does a better job than the NVIDIA encoder -- but that doesn't solve the import issue.
3. I'm currently running Resolve Studio on Windows, does the license allow me to download the studio version of Resolve for Linux to test it out?
I'm using the USB fob option and I run Studio on Windows / Mac / Linux with no problems - same fob(s) -- but you can't SHARE the fob between two running instances
at the same time.
The container packaging project above does something that's pretty much impossible on other platforms, you can run multiple versions of Resolve (and/or Studio) on the same machine. They all play nicely together. I'm able to test new versions of Studio with ease as opposed to on Mac or Windows.
4. Any other gotchas I should be thinking about?
Thanks!
As you have read on this thread, AMD support is questionable. I'm doing some further testing on that now. I have a new 780M iGPU that I'm about to put through its paces. To be safe, I would stick with NVIDIA for the short term.