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Aloha! I want to open this dialogue to point out some major bugs in Resolve 16-17 with my $10,000 2019 MacPro. The problem in a nutshell is the UI loading times....(opening sequences, changing from color to edit to fairlight pages, media window delays and overall crashing. Granted the project I am working on is huge....2 hour feature film....all RED footage (MacPro plays back huge RED files smoothly once open). Because of the load times I broke up the sequences into like ten smaller sequences to help load times and even then its sometimes 5min wait for a sequence to load.

Now, this has been driving me so crazy and I couldnt believe that this is just the standard for resolve and the fastest mac on the market....so I bought a M1 MacMini to compare. HOLY ****.....no delays, sequences snap open, UI is smooth as butter, no crashes. WOW. What is going on here? Same project, same settings, connected to same RAID drive, running same OS and Resolve version. Obviously the MacMini cant play the RED files very good at all once open so now I have two crapy machines that are fast in one way and slow in another....

Any help on this please!!! Film deadlines fast approaching and hair on my head has almost all fallen out.

I read that there maybe bugs or problems with the W5700x GPUs in MacPro....I have two of them....

One thing I noticed is that even tho the MacPro has Dual w5700x with a total of 32gb of VRAM the VRAM seems to max out a lot when Im deep in the edit. On the MacMini when diving into the project and attempting to play footage back and edit the GPU RAM never seems to increase. :/

HEEEEELLLLLPPPPPPP!!!!!!!

moved to resolve forum

Can you be specific about the Resolve version you are using on the MacPro and the MacMini M1?

If you reduce the resolution for RAW decodes, the Mac mini should play it smoothly. Being wavelet, R3D scales very well.
And, yes, I'm shocked too at what a MacBook Air M1 can deliver.
But I'll be waiting for the 14" M1X (or whatever they are going to call it).

Peter Chamberlain wrote:moved to resolve forum

Can you be specific about the Resolve version you are using on the MacPro and the MacMini M1?

I was using the official release of 16 for a while....holding out for official 17 release. Now that 17 just came out I crossed my fingers the bug was fixed but no dice. I am now running the latest version of Resolve.

Uli Plank wrote:If you reduce the resolution for RAW decodes, the Mac mini should play it smoothly. Being wavelet, R3D scales very well.
And, yes, I'm shocked too at what a MacBook Air M1 can deliver.
But I'll be waiting for the 14" M1X (or whatever they are going to call it).

Your not wrong....I guess I could used my $10,000 MacPro as a door stop and edit my 8k RED Raw feature film in 1/16 resolution....YIPPIE!!