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Hi all, I recently bought an ATEM Mini Pro ISO, which creates resolve projects directly, So, I figured I should at least try using it, but I'm having trouble getting to first base.

I didn't find anything by way of hardware requirements, though I don't tend to put much faith in them anyway (they always seem to be "this is what we tested on, don't ask us if it'll work on something else

Anyway, I'm running Ubuntu 20.04, (not Centos and changing would be a deal breaker) and I have no special video graphics card.

I downloaded the installer, and ran it, and it completed without complaint. I looked in the bin directory that it created under /opt/resolve and found /opt/resolve/bin/resolve. That looked like a probable candidate (I didn't find any documentation for this product other than the install guide, so surely I'm missing a great deal!) But when I try to run that, it pops up a white box which behaves as a splash screen (forces itself on top of everything else) and then just sits there. The shell window reports:

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$ /opt/resolve/bin/resolve
ActCCMessage Already in Table: Code= c005, Mode= 13, Level=  1, CmdKey= -1, Option= 0
ActCCMessage Already in Table: Code= c006, Mode= 13, Level=  1, CmdKey= -1, Option= 0
ActCCMessage Already in Table: Code= c007, Mode= 13, Level=  1, CmdKey= -1, Option= 0
ActCCMessage Already in Table: Code= 2282, Mode=  0, Level=  0, CmdKey= 8, Option= 0
PnlMsgActionStringAdapter Already in Table: Code= 615e, Mode=  0, Level=  0, CmdKey= -1, Option= 0
QSocketNotifier: Can only be used with threads started with QThread
New connection received.


... and then nothing happens. The top command doesn't show any significant CPU being used and nothing changes the blank white box.

Did I run the right command? Do I need to run some other command too? Do I need hardware I don't have (e.g. fancy GPU?) Is Ubuntu just not going to work? or what did I miss?

Thanks for any pointers
Cheers,
Toby.

I moved forward, but things still don't look good.

By accident (serendipity!) I clicked on the resolve project in one of my ATEM's output directories. That seemed to start the program, however, it now says "Review GPU Configuration... could not find OpenCL capable GPUs..."

When I try to configure, it looks like I have a "GeForce 210" (I had no idea, it's an ancient graphics card, though it's served well). It also asks for some special storage.

No matter what I do at this point, it drops out with the not very descriptive message:

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FusionScript Server [160291] Started
Host 'Fusion' [160029] Added
Host 'Fusion' Removed
FusionScript Server [160291] Terminated


Anyway, it's pretty clear to me that I'm missing some basic info about system requirements. So far, all my searches on the product pages for "requirements" or "hardware" have produced nothing. Can someone point me at the basic documentation for this product? I don't believe it doesn't exist, and without it I'm clearly going to be asking a bunch of stupid questions and simply annoying everyone

The readme lists min specs but u definitely need a much more powerful and modern GPU.
Consider a RTX 2070 or better

Peter Chamberlain wrote:Consider a RTX 2070 or better

Ah, my use case nowhere near justifies such an investment. I make training videos, only deal with 1080 source material, use almost no effects, and the hardware I currently have--Ryzen 7--responds perfectly smoothly with my present NLE even with compressed material.

So, I hope you'll forgive me asking a couple of follow up questions.

For context, here's clearly a difference between "recommended" (a recommendation inevitably made with a range of use cases in mind) and "required".

So, the first follow up question is "what's the cheapest graphics card that will allow this software to run?" After all, I don't "need" to run this at all, it just seems like it might be "kinda neat" to be able to use the project that my ATEM Pro ISO creates.

Second would be, is there any reason to suppose that I will be unable to run this on Ubuntu 20.04? I was happily running the drivers for a Blackmagic Decklink Quad HDMI before I bought the ATEM, and the ... I think it's called Media Express?? ... software ran fine too, though I didn't discover a use for it in my situation?

And finally, might I suggest some small changes to the packaging of Resolve that would help the terminally stupid like myself? One is to put the readme in the zip file of the distribution--buried in the binary that one extracts, so you can't even see it until after extraction is a great way to fool people into thinking it doesn't exist Second, mention the "docs" directory in that readme. Finally, putting some visible link to these documents on the product webpage would seem like a good idea. If I really can't run this, or can't run it without an unjustifiable investment, it would have saved all of us some effort if that had been clear from the start.

Anyway, thanks for the information Peter, it seems likely that I'm just not the target user and this might all be pointless, and that's fair enough of course. I'm still intrigued however, so I haven't given up yet

I'm getting away with a GTX 1070 (8gb) on Windows 10. (Barely, though.)

After considerable searching and cross-referencing the CUDA support by device listings (https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus), I bought a GeForce GT 730 based graphics card with 2Gb memory, for $75, and this does seem to be sufficient to allow the software to start. I doubt the performance will be great, but I really don't care; I simply want to be able transfer the ATEM Mini Pro ISO's resolve project to another piece of software, so I believe I'm good for now. If I do discover anything about performance, I'll update this in case anyone else is looking for an absolute minimum configuration.