Who will be the first to brave macOS Sonoma?

I have Resolve Studio 18.6 installed at home for testing.
I'm on a MacBook Pro Max M3 and so far it's running smooth, with no particular issues.

In case it helps

Are you running Sonoma 14.4?

nope! I stayed at 14.1 since there were no issues for me at that stage - no need to upgrade and risk it

And here we are with Sonoma 14.5... I don't know if I'll bother to update. Sonoma has a very bad reputation on this forum and life it too short. Before you know it, macOS 15 will be released and we will have a whole new set of problems to contend with.

Running 14.4.1 (corporate policy) and Resolve Studio no longer works. Is there an uninstaller that will wipe the slate clean, including my studio license so that I need to input that again when I re-install Resolve?

Running 14.4.1 on a 16" MBP M1 Max and Resolve seems happy. So it can work!

14.4.1 working fine on my Studio Max too.

I have been using Davinci Resolve 19 beta 2 on my 16-inch, 16 GB RAM Macbook Pro with macOS Sonoma 14.5 for two days and three and a half hours without encountering any issues.

Anybody around here with a M3 Max under Sonoma using clips out of a Sony in H.265?

I bought a new M3 Max laptop last year that came preloaded with Sonoma, so had no choice in the matter.

Have to say though, with the exception of 14.4, it's been more stable and reliable on the laptop than on a 2019 Intel Mac Pro tower with 16 cores and mucho RAM. Seems far faster too, which is wild.

14.1 had a weird Apple Mail spam detection and filtering (Rules) issue, disabling it until a newer build arrived fixed the problem. 14.4 borked some things with iLok and plugins. Other than that things largely work as advertised.

It seems from what I've seen and heard that Sonoma is optimized for the M architecture processors, while Intel machines are better left on Monterey (possibly Ventura).

Thor

Yeah, it seems M3 forces you into Sonoma, no choice.

I can imagine that the machine would be faster than the old Mac Pro if you are using formats like H.265 in 10 bit, for which the new machines have hardware decoders. Do you use any of those, maybe even from a Sony camera?

Finally, I have a 2017 iMac which ends for upgrades at Ventura, and it's running fine. It was happy with Monterey all the time before. Out of curiosity, I'm sandboxing the M1 Pro with Monterey and 19b2, and it's running OK too.

Hi Uli,

as an audio guy I couldn't tell you what codecs I have in the video timeline (I suppose I could, but it's almost never an issue for me, I ask for a consolidated guide clip while I work on the sound).

Resolve is an exceptionally complex beast. For audio it's been getting better and better, with a few irritating hiccups along the way, and a few standout features that are still missing, but overall very usable.

The video side of things I can only imagine is far more complicated than what Fairlight is doing, plus there are multiple tabs supporting different image operations, from cut to edit, color, and fusion.

I might consider setting up Ventura on the Mac Pro, but to be honest I was thinking of selling it soon and getting an M powered machine, either a Studio or one of the new Pros. For me the main issue is how to host and run the Fairlight Audio Accelerator (CC-2) that is my link to the rest of the studio. The M4 in the new iPad Pro apparently performs very well when compared against any M2 or M3 except the M2 Ultra or M3 Max. Pretty amazing how far processing power has come in a relatively short timeframe.

Thor

I might consider setting up Ventura on the Mac Pro, but to be honest I was thinking of selling it soon and getting an M powered machine, either a Studio or one of the new Pros. For me the main issue is how to host and run the Fairlight Audio Accelerator (CC-2) that is my link to the rest of the studio.

As an audio guy, you might be a member of the pretty small target group for the new Mac Pro.
For everybody else, a Mac Studio will give them the same power for about half the price, far less weight and a smaller electricity bill.

My thought is that the CC-2 in an external PCIe card cage (Sonnet, etc) connected via Thunderbolt to a Studio would be plenty. I don't really need the new Mac Pro as it's expansion is limited compared to the Intel version (i.e. no GPUs allowed). It's also a really steep price differential (50% or more) when the Studio will do 90% of the work the Mac Pro will, essentially same specs minus the PCIe card expansion.

BMD has yet to verify that the CC-2 will even work in the new Mac Pros, so there's that too.

When the M4 starts showing up in laptops and stationary machines is when things get really interesting, especially if they launch an M4 Pro or Max, or even Ultra. That would be wild.

Thor

I might consider setting up Ventura on the Mac Pro, but to be honest I was thinking of selling it soon and getting an M powered machine, either a Studio or one of the new Pros. For me the main issue is how to host and run the Fairlight Audio Accelerator (CC-2) that is my link to the rest of the studio.

As an audio guy, you might be a member of the pretty small target group for the new Mac Pro.
For everybody else, a Mac Studio will give them the same power for about half the price, far less weight and a smaller electricity bill.

My thought is that the CC-2 in an external PCIe card cage (Sonnet, etc) connected via Thunderbolt to a Studio would be plenty.

Did anybody try that already?

[Dwaine Maggart]

Just to note: CC2 (Fairlight Audio Accelerator Card) is still not supported with Apple Silicon.

Now that we got your attention, dear Dwaine: What about DeckLink cards?

[Dwaine Maggart]

What about them?

I just upgraded to a 16" fully loaded used Macbook pro about a month or 2 ago and it was already on Sonoma so I stuck with that. . I upgraded using migration assistant which was a big mistake because Safari has been bricked ever since. However that's only problem I've had and it probably had to do with stuff brought over from older software. I'm still running 18.6 but its been absolutely rock solid for coloring . I don't use Fusion, the Cut Page or Fairlight though .

Lenny

Now that we got your attention, dear Dwaine: What about DeckLink cards?

I use Decklink SDI 4K in an external Thunderbolt 3 enclosure with M1 Ultra Mac Studio and M1 Pro MacBook Pro, and it works just fine.

Great, so we got the confirmation I was hoping for!
May I ask which enclosure you got?

I bought this one few years ago

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/ ... x_for.html

I've seen similar cases under few different brands, similarly priced, most likely they are all the same inside.

Dwaine Maggart Its on proxmox and yes its the Amd 6900 and my Z790 most pcie is passed through so all usb and intensity pro.
Sorry if a bit late with the update.