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I am always cautious to update to new software and OS's. Has anyone had any issues with running Resolve on Mac's Big Sur OS?

If you check around here there were some problems with I/O devices and the Media express software installation.
It's running pretty well here.

Uli Plank wrote:If you check around here there were some problems with I/O devices and the Media express software installation.
It's running pretty well here.

That's good to hear. I don't use many I/O devices except external drives. So, if there aren't any issues with that I think I might upgrade to Big Sur.

Running well so far on an AMD hackintosh, only had to install the 17.1b3 version with M1 support since the other version would crash when run.

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Big Sur seems to work ok with Resolve Studio 17.0b3 and Fusion Studio 17.0b3 on my laptop. I have not used it much though. I just updated the laptop to see if Big Sur broke anything. Other than the annoying new look, I don't see any difference so I won't be updating my desktop. Nothing broke as far as I can see, but I also don't see any good reason to update.

Harold Tomlinson wrote:Big Sur seems to work ok with Resolve Studio 17.0b3 and Fusion Studio 17.0b3 on my laptop. I have not used it much though. I just updated the laptop to see if Big Sur broke anything. Other than the annoying new look, I don't see any difference so I won't be updating my desktop. Nothing broke as far as I can see, but I also don't see any good reason to update.

Nothing compelling about new features in Big Sur?

I always run MacOS betas and am currently on Big Sur 11.1 beta and it works fine with Resolve Studio 17b3 and Fusion Studio 17b3. I've had one crash in Fusion Studio.

I'm on 16 on Big Sur, and files won't link. Audio and Video of same file look linked when imported, but move separately. Upon un-checking (they indicate that they're linked), re-checking files seem to be linked, but do not choose or move together. Same thing with chainlink icon.

I scrapped the project and started anew - same thing. Anyone else having this? Do I need to switch to 17?

I switched over to Big Sur recently and now am having issues. Started with Adobe Premiere; had to trash preferences in order for it to show something other than black on the timeline. Now im opening up Resolve Studio 16.2.8and as it opens up the any old project (shows the full window of the project), the spinning wheel pops up and doesn't stop. I have restarted software and computer, still nothing. If I open up a new project, I have no issues. I backed up my database in v16, but it froze (spinning wheel) after it was done. I tried installing the recent v17 beta, updating the database, and it still is doing the same thing. Are there preferences I can trash? Or is there something deeper going on?

THANKS!

David Delaney wrote:I switched over to Big Sur recently and now am having issues. Started with Adobe Premiere; had to trash preferences in order for it to show something other than black on the timeline. Now im opening up Resolve Studio 16.2.8and as it opens up the any old project (shows the full window of the project), the spinning wheel pops up and doesn't stop. I have restarted software and computer, still nothing. If I open up a new project, I have no issues. I backed up my database in v16, but it froze (spinning wheel) after it was done. I tried installing the recent v17 beta, updating the database, and it still is doing the same thing. Are there preferences I can trash? Or is there something deeper going on?

THANKS!

I upgraded to Big Sur as well. I initially had issues at the beginning. But, after updating the database, things are running smoothly. As a matter of fact, I've noticed that all of my programs, including Resolve 17, are running dramatically faster. I'm on a 2017 iMac Pro with the Radeon Pro Vega 56 graphics card, and 32 GB of RAM. The base model, basically.

David Delaney wrote:I switched over to Big Sur recently and now am having issues. Started with Adobe Premiere; had to trash preferences in order for it to show something other than black on the timeline. Now im opening up Resolve Studio 16.2.8and as it opens up the any old project (shows the full window of the project), the spinning wheel pops up and doesn't stop. I have restarted software and computer, still nothing. If I open up a new project, I have no issues. I backed up my database in v16, but it froze (spinning wheel) after it was done. I tried installing the recent v17 beta, updating the database, and it still is doing the same thing. Are there preferences I can trash? Or is there something deeper going on?

THANKS!

Can anyone help me out with this? Im still not getting resolve to work (16 or 17 beta). To add to this issue... my Adobe software is also having issues. Premiere is playing back video as a black screen and there only way to fix it is to reset the preferences. But then it seems to start having issues again. Could it just be the OS 11?
Im running on the new Mac Pro 3.2 GHz 16-Core Intel Xeon W with a AMD Radeon Pro W5700X 16 GB graphics card.

David Delaney wrote:[
Can anyone help me out with this? Im still not getting resolve to work (16 or 17 beta). To add to this issue... my Adobe software is also having issues. Premiere is playing back video as a black screen and there only way to fix it is to reset the preferences. But then it seems to start having issues again. Could it just be the OS 11?
Im running on the new Mac Pro 3.2 GHz 16-Core Intel Xeon W with a AMD Radeon Pro W5700X 16 GB graphics card.

Unfortunately, this sounds like something you'll need to go step-by-step to figure out.

Have you tried running Disk Utility to check the integrity of your file systems on every disk? (It may require you to reboot into safe mode and run so that it can check your boot disk as well.) Have you installed any audio or video plugins? Any third-party codecs? Have you tried disabling OS extensions?

The fact that you're having issues on two totally different video programs suggests that it's a deeper problem. It could be somehow that your Resolve database is corrupted -- upgrading it to v17 won't fix this and might make it worse - and also multiple Premiere configuration files are corrupted too, but that seems too coincidental to be true.

Have you installed hardware recently? New memory, a new hard drive, or anything where you might've opened it up? Any new keyboards or control surfaces attached?

I always just install the new OS, not Clean Install, but it's really best if you clean install. If the OS shunted some apps/software off to the side because they weren't compatible, you didn't manually move them back, I assume.

This sounds like one of those problems where it's something fairly unique with your installation and history, so I don't think folks will be able to help all that much, unless you're doing some A/B testing or exploration and find something more specific to go on.

wfolta wrote:

David Delaney wrote:[
Can anyone help me out with this? Im still not getting resolve to work (16 or 17 beta). To add to this issue... my Adobe software is also having issues. Premiere is playing back video as a black screen and there only way to fix it is to reset the preferences. But then it seems to start having issues again. Could it just be the OS 11?
Im running on the new Mac Pro 3.2 GHz 16-Core Intel Xeon W with a AMD Radeon Pro W5700X 16 GB graphics card.

Unfortunately, this sounds like something you'll need to go step-by-step to figure out.

Have you tried running Disk Utility to check the integrity of your file systems on every disk? (It may require you to reboot into safe mode and run so that it can check your boot disk as well.) Have you installed any audio or video plugins? Any third-party codecs? Have you tried disabling OS extensions?

The fact that you're having issues on two totally different video programs suggests that it's a deeper problem. It could be somehow that your Resolve database is corrupted -- upgrading it to v17 won't fix this and might make it worse - and also multiple Premiere configuration files are corrupted too, but that seems too coincidental to be true.

Have you installed hardware recently? New memory, a new hard drive, or anything where you might've opened it up? Any new keyboards or control surfaces attached?

I always just install the new OS, not Clean Install, but it's really best if you clean install. If the OS shunted some apps/software off to the side because they weren't compatible, you didn't manually move them back, I assume.

This sounds like one of those problems where it's something fairly unique with your installation and history, so I don't think folks will be able to help all that much, unless you're doing some A/B testing or exploration and find something more specific to go on.

Thank you wfolta for your response. I appreciate you at least giving me a feeling that this is a special case. haha

The only thing I've installed was install the OS... but not clean. I may try that... or I may try doing the difficult thing of going back to Catalina. I do have a BM PCie mini link card installed.. but that was all installed in the last OSX. The computer and hard drives I have (1 TB M2 SSD) installed are less than a year old. I did a first aid on them and everything seems good.

Hoping to get this resolved in the next few days

I'm running Big Sur on my MacBook Pro and have been using v17 betas, all without issue. I was even running a beta of Big Sur at first, though I've since stopped that to remove a risk factor. So I don't think it's Big Sur, but...

wfolta wrote:I'm running Big Sur on my MacBook Pro and have been using v17 betas, all without issue. I was even running a beta of Big Sur at first, though I've since stopped that to remove a risk factor. So I don't think it's Big Sur, but...

I have been using Big Sur on my 2019 MacBook Pro just fine too for a couple months. No issues with Adobe or Resolve. But maybe it’s a graphics card thing on this Mac Pro. Anyway, I’m gonna try a clean install of Big Sur and see if that does anything different. I’ll post an update later.


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David Delaney wrote:

wfolta wrote:I'm running Big Sur on my MacBook Pro and have been using v17 betas, all without issue. I was even running a beta of Big Sur at first, though I've since stopped that to remove a risk factor. So I don't think it's Big Sur, but...

I have been using Big Sur on my 2019 MacBook Pro just fine too for a couple months. No issues with Adobe or Resolve. But maybe it’s a graphics card thing on this Mac Pro. Anyway, I’m gonna try a clean install of Big Sur and see if that does anything different. I’ll post an update later.

It looks like I have successfully fixed my issue with reinstalling the OS fresh. Something must have gone buggy on my OS update from OS X to OS XI (is that their new title? ) anyway... Resolve 16 seems to be working fine now.

A fresh install of a major update of any OS is always good thing in my experience.
Yes, it can be a PITA, but not so hard with Apple's migration tool.