Who will be the first to brave macOS Sonoma?

I'm not advocating updating to Sonoma, but we all know that someone will give it a shot considering that it is scheduled for release today. Maybe best to try it on a separate external drive, though. Interested to hear what those brave souls have to say about it in regards to Resolve...

Be safe.

I'd suggest sandboxing on a spare drive to boot from.

I dunno.. . But I can tell who won't be the 1st...

I did a first smoke test on an M1 Pro and Resolve Studio 18.6. Haven't encountered anything new broken in Resolve but all I've done is open and play an existing timeline.

I haven't had the other performance issues people have reported with 18.6 so ymmv.

Interesting, Roger. Thanks for posting. Keep us updated if you can. Cheers

I have been running it in a vm on a pc and found no probs so far thats a vm with pci-e pass through.

Anyone installed on an M1?

Installed on Mac Studio M1 Ultra with 64Gb

Slow install but running everything seemlessly.

Overall seems a bit faster as a OS than Ventura.

DR Studio 18.6 works great ... had to enter System Preferences err Control Panel BT
to have it find my Speed Editor ... which it did in about 10 seconds.

Renders cDNG 12 bit to ProRes 422HQ/4444 perfectly.

Working on my 2019 Mac Studio. Speed Editor and Color Panel are alive and well. Seems a bit faster overall. It loads fine on a MacBook Pro with M1 Max but haven't tried a project on it.

Working beautifully on 2023 Mac Studio M2 64GB after the upgrade

No problems so far...

Just edited my entire shoot today on my Macbook Pro M2 Max without issues on the latest Resolve, everything seems to be working just fine.

I just installed OSX Sonoma on MacBook m1 16/1TB and it asks for the Rosetta before installation of the Da Vinci 18.6, should I revert to previous OSX or go with the Rosetta?

I'm about to roll the dice and install it, because I don't learn.

[Dwaine Maggart]

@Terry McKinley: Just curious: what VM are you using with Resolve?

And that's using the AMD GPU?

What host software is the VM running on?

I should mention that I went ahead with Sonoma 14.0 on my MacBook (no ongoing critical projects) and some brief tests with 18.5.1 Studio indicate that all is well. Much more testing to do. Cheers.

Note: I have since updated to 18.6 Studio to explore all the bugs reported there.

[Peter Chamberlain]

You need Rosetta as a number of third party sdks and drivers still require it.

I dunno.. . But I can tell who won't be the 1st...

Lol.

I have an M1 Mac Mini and upgraded to Sonoma. Resolve is sluggish as hell. don't know if it's due to the new OS or something else.

I have an M1 Mac Mini and upgraded to Sonoma. Resolve is sluggish as hell. don't know if it's due to the new OS or something else.

Did you upgrade to Resolve 18.6 at the same time? I upgraded to Sonoma while running 18.5.1 and found no difference in Resolve performance with a limited number of tests including the ripple delete test that people were noting as a problem with 18.6. All good. Then updated to 18.6 and the ripple delete sluggishness and audio sync issues started.

Did you upgrade to Resolve 18.6 at the same time? I upgraded to Sonoma while running 18.5.1 and found no difference in Resolve performance with a limited number of tests including the ripple delete test that people were noting as a problem with 18.6. All good. Then updated to 18.6 and the ripple delete sluggishness and audio sync issues started.

I had upgraded to 18.6 before installing Sonoma.

Well, many users, including myself have found that 18.6 is buggy and very slow. If you care to revert to 18.5.1 you may have a much better experience with Resolve regardless of Ventura or Sonoma. Cheers.

I have upgraded to Sonoma on Sunday. So far so good with 18.5.1

I can’t imagine it making DVR worse , this current DVR is the buggiest software I’ve ever used in my life.

I can’t imagine it making DVR worse , this current DVR is the buggiest software I’ve ever used in my life.

I feel your pain and am mildly entertained at your posting in every bug report thread on this forum, lol.

I'm in Sonoma and Davinci Resolve 18.6.2 renders using Youtube Preset with 5.1 audio with freezing parts!! My Mac is a powerful 2018 iMac 27". Do you know how to solve?

My Mac Studio's logicboard had fried, after it was repaired it was installed with Sanoma, not my choice. But i also had not contemplated various software support. Normally i wait awhile to update to the latest versions.. at least a x.2 or later. I backed everything up from a Timemachine drive. It seemed to work ok, apart from some things being slow..

But alas... more problems ensued.

The latest version of Resolve Studio does not allow me to copy, back up and or export projects. This also means i cant move projects over to the cloud for which i pay. I have back to back projects so i also cant really take the time reinstall a previous system and move everything over again. It took 1,5 day to copy everything.

TLDR Sanoma does not allow my projects to be exported, copied, backupped and moved to cloud.

I'm not advocating updating to Sonoma, but we all know that someone will give it a shot considering that it is scheduled for release today. Maybe best to try it on a separate external drive, though. Interested to hear what those brave souls have to say about it in regards to Resolve...

Be safe.

Everything is a bug fest already, might as well jump in. I just updated to newest Mac OS and things seem to work better in DVR actually.

Sonoma 14.1.1 released today seems to have fixed the issue on the Fairlight EQ, Dynamics dialogs..

I'm seeing a curious problem that seems new to Sonoma - and I don't think it's unique to Resolve.
I'm trying to debug a Resolve hang so I've had to kill Resolve a number of times. Sometimes, even though I've killed it, it appears to stick around in somewhat zombie form such that I can't restart Resolve.

Often when I try to run it in this case the finder will tell me that Resolve is no longer running. Odd!
Once after this I tried running Resolve from the terminal and got this:

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joe@Joes-MacBook-Pro MacOS % ./Resolve
log4cxx: No appender could be found for logger (BtCommon).
log4cxx: Please initialize the log4cxx system properly.
joe@Joes-MacBook-Pro MacOS %


I had to either restart the mac or log out/in to get things working again.
This has happened more than once.

I did and I got the "critical error saving" situation. I can't find a fix for this either. SMDH

Finally! DR now crashes under MacOS just like under Windows.

Finally! DR now crashes under MacOS just like under Windows.

I have been having random instability with Resolve 18.6.2 on MacOS Ventura. I can't find any obvious trigger for the freezes.

Latest Sonoma no problems so far. Nice to have Mac, PC and iPad though. One of them will work ! The Mac and PC editor have only editing programs on them. Household is really PC and Android so the Studio Max has no linking to anything and just about every Mac service/feature is turned off. Just a computing platform for Resolve, Topaz Ai and Affinity Photo 2. Neither use Cloud storage etc so really clean operation. Chrome is used on both for downloads when needed.