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I switched from a first gen M1 Mac Studio to a new M4 Mac Studio. I backed up the old M1 and migrated to the new M4. After all was done I opened Resolve Studio, entered license and I was good to go. Everything worked just fine. Got the notice about Beta 4, downloaded and when I went to install I was told I had to install Rosetta. WTF?? To my knowledge I never had to do that when I installed Resolve on my old M1. I thought Resolve, for the Mac, was a universal app. Any ideas why Resolve needed Rosetta?? BTW, I have been running the Beta versions on my old M1 Mac. One last funny thing. A project I had completed with no issues on the old Mac, now two of the many clips had no audio anymore. Audio waves were there just no audio. Glad the project was done and out the door.

Thanks for any thoughts

Jim K

While Resolve is a universal binary, there are third party SDKs and tools which still require Rosetta.

Gotcha. Never thought about that one. Thanks for the info.

Jim K

Did you install the Resolve Mac version for Intel or Silicon? You should be installing the Resolve Mac Silicon version if you’re on the Mx platforms. I think if you install the Intel version on a Mx platforms, it will require Rosetta.

I didn’t notice there was a difference. When I downloaded Beta 4 there are four choices - 2 for Windows, one for Linux and one for the MacOS. I didn’t see Silicon or Intel. How did I miss that??

Thanks for the advice. I’ll have to look again.

Note that Resolve is a universal binary and there is a single installer for the Mac platform.

That is what I thought. I was just surprised when the alert came up, when installing, about installing Rosetta. That didn’t happen on my old M1 Studio.

Thanks for the reply!!

Skyking95 wrote:That is what I thought. I was just surprised when the alert came up, when installing, about installing Rosetta. That didn’t happen on my old M1 Studio.

Thanks for the reply!!

That’s very interesting coz I just tried to install it on an M2 and it did prompted me to install Rosetta. So there really is not Silicon version of Resolve. It’s worth assuming then that it’s not taking advantage of the architecture… just emulating it as an Intel based app binary.

Sorry James for pointing you to a nonexistent version.

Very Interesting to say the least. I wonder if it some sort of bug in Resolve. When I first installed Resolve on a M1 Studio (version 19) I never got that warning to install Rosetta. In a way I am glad it happened to another Mac user so it is not just me!!

Jim K

James, there a thread on this that I started and it does explain the Rosetta incident. It could be that the version you’re referring when installed on the M1 did not have the parts that required Rosetta. Here’s the link… hope this at least gives a little clarity since it’s not official coming from BMD engineers.

viewtopic.php?f=21&t=222532&view=unread#unread

That was great info. Thanks so much for sharing! I suspect when every third party needs Rosetta will eventually get updated to run native on Apple Silicon.

Thanks again

Jim K