Resolve 12 Beta on an ageing 2011 MacBook Pro

It's pretty impressive. Just tried it on my ageing Late 2011 17" MacBook Pro with an AMD Radeon HD 6770M GPU with 1GB of VRAM.

System on and SSD and all footage was on a standard internal SATA drive (replaced the DVD drive).

So not a very powerful setup at all.

This is the machine that I use for backing up footage on set and editing on the road. Resolve 11 was pretty useless on it. Playback would be far to slow.

A quick test with Resolve 12 Beta:
Editing 1080p ProRes in a 1080p timeline is as smooth as cutting in FCPX. Even in the grade page I'm getting 25fps with 2 correction nodes.

Drop some Cinema DNG's from the BMCC into the timeline and the playback in the edit window becomes stuttery which is to be expected. Once you enable the Render Cache it plays back as if I'm cutting ProRes.

Even the colour page is responsive and plays back at 25p with 2 nodes on the Cinema DNG (with Render Cache enable)

This is awesome! I can now use this machine on set to review footage with the client that has a quick grade applied.

Good work BM. There goes FCPX and Premier Pro off my machine.


Get it here along with the updated config guide:
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/suppor ... ci-resolve

Render times increased from 12 fps ProRes 1080P to 20.5 fps ProRes on the same machine. Very impressive! Good user layout... Just enough graphics to take the edge of the everyday grind.

Adam, yeah this is awesome.

It's pretty impressive. Just tried it on my ageing Late 2011 17" MacBook Pro with an AMD Radeon HD 6770M GPU with 1GB of VRAM.

System on and SSD and all footage was on a standard internal SATA drive (replaced the DVD drive).

So not a very powerful setup at all.

This is the machine that I use for backing up footage on set and editing on the road. Resolve 11 was pretty useless on it. Playback would be far to slow.

A quick test with Resolve 12 Beta:
Editing 1080p ProRes in a 1080p timeline is as smooth as cutting in FCPX. Even in the grade page I'm getting 25fps with 2 correction nodes.

Drop some Cinema DNG's from the BMCC into the timeline and the playback in the edit window becomes stuttery which is to be expected. Once you enable the Render Cache it plays back as if I'm cutting ProRes.

Even the colour page is responsive and plays back at 25p with 2 nodes on the Cinema DNG (with Render Cache enable)

This is awesome! I can now use this machine on set to review footage with the client that has a quick grade applied.

Good work BM. There goes FCPX and Premier Pro off my machine.


Get it here along with the updated config guide:
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/suppor ... ci-resolve

Wow! Thank you BM engineers! You the best!


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I'm very impressed that the program would work this efficiently on a laptop!

It's one thing to add tons of features to a program -- it's a lot harder to make the code tight, fast, and efficient.

I'm sure some of you remembered the furious debate on having a version of DR that can run on low powered systems and I argued to the death that BM can do it by optimizing their code, well I guess BM listened and made it happened. Thank you BMD!!!

Hi all,

Seems you are very lucky : on my mid 2010 Mac Book Pro (15") I get the "GPU memory full" message each time I try to read something else than h264 (all the flavors of Prores are unreadable...).

So sad !
If anyone has a solution....
Thanks,
Alex

I'm sure some of you remembered the furious debate on having a version of DR that can run on low powered systems and I argued to the death that BM can do it by optimizing their code, well I guess BM listened and made it happened. Thank you BMD!!!

From what's been posted, the reason is that they added specific support for Intel/IRIS intergrated GPU's. So probably less that they NEEDED to optimize code, but rather add code that makes use of the lower power hardware.

Just pointing that out to make the distinction that there could be the assumption it didn't run well because of bloated/unoptimized code, but it actually seems more so that it just didn't support that kind of hardware.

Either way, great result and update.

Hi Adam,

I have the same Macbook Pro but the 15" version running on Yosemite 10.10.4. I'm getting sluggish playback, even with DV footage. Must be my settings. Please share your settings. Thank you.