Johan Cramer wrote:Resolve does not work without a high-end GPU. Its hardware requirements are described, in detail, in the freely downloadable Resolve manual.
i don't think, you'll find all necessary answers concerning this new linux edition in the official manual!
most of the feedback here in this thread is really useful for other users and should be also seen as valuable source for BMD to improve their software -- the free version just as the expensive professional product.
Johan Cramer wrote:If you are a Linux user looking for a piece of generic video editing software, please look elsewhere.
yes -- that's indeed a very good point! we shouldn't forget, that there is a lot of free software available for linux, which does it's job quite well. it's not always necessary to look for commercial closed source offers, if tasks can be solved by those other means as well. it looks quite desirable, to keep the linux ecosystem as far as possible independent from closed source dependencies. sure, i like resolve! but i use it mostly, because there is no free linux NLE around, which does high bitdepth rendering in a similar satisfying manner right now. but this will change soon. the github MLT repositories already reports very important changes concerning this issue. it will not take very long and kdenlive/shotcut/flowblade will share this very important feature.
Johan Cramer wrote:Resolve is a specialist tool. On this forum, we have been asking - and even petitioned - Blackmagic to release Linux versions of Resolve and Resolve Studio. Flooding it with support requests for non-supported set-ups (non-supported distributions, non-supported hardware) isn't helpful and doesn't further the cause of Resolve having a sustained life under Linux.
well -- just look, how tolerant and relaxed other
"specialist tools" handle this kind of questions:
http://www.sgo.es/forums/topic/what-lin ... -mamba-fx/and that's IMHO quite natural, because its concerning just another
[linux] application amongst many others.
i wrote many of those requests for more equal linux access -- and i usually just asked for "equal support of this operating system" and an "
as is distribution" --, and i'm quite happy about BMDs surprising decision, but that doesn't mean, we now shouldn't report any useful feedback and constructive suggestions anymore!
linux and other open source projects only became as powerful as they are by a vital community, open discourse and exchange between affected users. you don't have to participate in this kind of collective efforts, but please respect, that others do their best to improve things by communicative means.