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is here any way to use da vinci 14 on a 2009 mac book pro?

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 8:24 pm
by alidav
I have many project already edited in fCX, i exported an xml and imported in da vinci, and everything looks wonderful expect for the impossibile playback, even with apple pro res proxy files.
My mac is an old mac book pro 2009, with a 256 MB vram, 8 Gb ram and an ssd as internal disk with EL CAPITAN,
my projects play fine on FCX on da vinci reproduction is around 5-6 fps. there is something that I can do or everything is based on the VRAM?

Re: is here any way to use da vinci 14 on a 2009 mac book pr

PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 9:09 pm
by Charles Bennett
Your Mac Book is seriously underpowered to run Resolve. 256mb of Vram will not get you anywhere. I just get away with 2Gb of Vram. Also you could do with more Ram.

Re: is here any way to use da vinci 14 on a 2009 mac book pr

PostPosted: Wed Apr 18, 2018 12:37 am
by Marc Wielage
It's slow and creaky on a 2015 MacBook Pro with full-tilt RAM and SSD storage. The sad answer for a lot of Resolve power questions and issues is: you need much better hardware. The BMD configuration guides will give you the minimum requirements, but the reality is that once you throw Raw, 4K (or higher), lots of Nodes, or OFX effects into the project... it'll clobber you.

Re: is here any way to use da vinci 14 on a 2009 mac book pr

PostPosted: Wed Apr 18, 2018 3:46 pm
by alidav
Yes, I am getting aware of it, I put aside with sadness DVR at the moment, and using it only to convert some XML from FCX to premiere. the point is that I want to migrate to something more serious than fcx where I am staying now.

anyone has experience of Hackintosh? is there a way without spending 5k$?