Resolve Performance Expectations - Review - seeking help
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 10:14 pmI'd like to share my first impressions of Resolve after working in Avid Media Composer for the past 12 years.
I took the Introduction class offer by BMD a few weeks ago, without a system that could run it. I followed along each day, and in the end, passed the certification test. With this newfound exciting tool, I purchased a studio license and committed to renting a workstation to redo much of the coursework hands on, and to find other tutorials online to try my hand at. I was thinking, "This software, and it's structure is so clever, it could well replace Avid in the next 4 years".
The system I've rented has two SSD drives, is Windows 10 64 bit, AMR Threadripper 3970X 32 Core Processor (64CPUs) at 3.7GHz. 64GB of RAM, combined with an NVidia RTX3080 10GB VRAM GPU. I haven't put together a PC in quite some time, but, I'm told, for current performance, as far as a workstation goes, this is a fairly high end machine....without getting into crazy land that an individual, as opposed to an online facility, can afford to buy. I think this one, with the HP 4k HDR monitor is around US$7000.00
Since I work in editorial, I figured Fusion, in particular, could greatly assist in many of the temporary composites I'm often required to do, and at a much more refined level. I was (and can say I still am) greatly excited to have a more sophisticated node based workflow instead of Avid..and I am certainly challenged by this new method of constructing (in my case, temporary) visual effects. But...here's where I feel it's falling off the rails.
I downloaded the free intro class from Bernd Klimm (VFXStudy.com) and went through it. My system CHOKED. So, I've tried changing numerous settings, as Bernd so appropriately discusses this issue in the course, but NONE of them would allow me to preview in real time after allowing resolve (in the edit page or in the fusion page) to play through the timeline and cache. I was lucky to get 8 fps, but usually it was less than 2fps. And that's in HD, not 4k or 8k.
In Bernd's exercises we are mostly working with 2d images, not motion pictures. So, please, comrades, can you help me out? I must be doing something wrong. His exercises DO involve some 3d work, as well as 2d filters, and particles... but again, these are just scratching the surface of what (I expect) we ought to be able to do in Resolve.
What can I do to get Resolve to playback smoothly after allowing it to cache? For reference, in Avid, I would simply render the effect, WAIT for the temp render media to be created, then see it in real time. Is there something I am missing in Resolve OR....
Are my expectations of Resolve performance too high, and I would need a $20k-50k workstation?
At this stage, my excitement from my intro course has turned into disappointment both in the software, but perhaps also in myself for not being able to make the right adjustments to get Resolve to perform well.
I truly would LOVE to be able to be mildly competent in Resolve as I am in Photoshop and After Effects. Mildly, NOT a master. Just a user who can work their way around simple problems I've been given in editorial.
Help.
Respectfully,
Ryan
I took the Introduction class offer by BMD a few weeks ago, without a system that could run it. I followed along each day, and in the end, passed the certification test. With this newfound exciting tool, I purchased a studio license and committed to renting a workstation to redo much of the coursework hands on, and to find other tutorials online to try my hand at. I was thinking, "This software, and it's structure is so clever, it could well replace Avid in the next 4 years".
The system I've rented has two SSD drives, is Windows 10 64 bit, AMR Threadripper 3970X 32 Core Processor (64CPUs) at 3.7GHz. 64GB of RAM, combined with an NVidia RTX3080 10GB VRAM GPU. I haven't put together a PC in quite some time, but, I'm told, for current performance, as far as a workstation goes, this is a fairly high end machine....without getting into crazy land that an individual, as opposed to an online facility, can afford to buy. I think this one, with the HP 4k HDR monitor is around US$7000.00
Since I work in editorial, I figured Fusion, in particular, could greatly assist in many of the temporary composites I'm often required to do, and at a much more refined level. I was (and can say I still am) greatly excited to have a more sophisticated node based workflow instead of Avid..and I am certainly challenged by this new method of constructing (in my case, temporary) visual effects. But...here's where I feel it's falling off the rails.
I downloaded the free intro class from Bernd Klimm (VFXStudy.com) and went through it. My system CHOKED. So, I've tried changing numerous settings, as Bernd so appropriately discusses this issue in the course, but NONE of them would allow me to preview in real time after allowing resolve (in the edit page or in the fusion page) to play through the timeline and cache. I was lucky to get 8 fps, but usually it was less than 2fps. And that's in HD, not 4k or 8k.
In Bernd's exercises we are mostly working with 2d images, not motion pictures. So, please, comrades, can you help me out? I must be doing something wrong. His exercises DO involve some 3d work, as well as 2d filters, and particles... but again, these are just scratching the surface of what (I expect) we ought to be able to do in Resolve.
What can I do to get Resolve to playback smoothly after allowing it to cache? For reference, in Avid, I would simply render the effect, WAIT for the temp render media to be created, then see it in real time. Is there something I am missing in Resolve OR....
Are my expectations of Resolve performance too high, and I would need a $20k-50k workstation?
At this stage, my excitement from my intro course has turned into disappointment both in the software, but perhaps also in myself for not being able to make the right adjustments to get Resolve to perform well.
I truly would LOVE to be able to be mildly competent in Resolve as I am in Photoshop and After Effects. Mildly, NOT a master. Just a user who can work their way around simple problems I've been given in editorial.
Help.
Respectfully,
Ryan
