Da Vinci Lite FREE for windows.

Ted Ramasola

Ted Ramasola

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I downloaded it, installed it. But haven't used it yet.

My question is, Is this lite version functional enough to be worth learning and using over our NLE color correction tools and say, over colorista in AE?
 
Yes, it's really quite good and the principles of colour correction will carry over to other software packages anyway and Da Vinci includes advanced features that NLE based plugins could never have. It's extremely powerful and fully featured for a "lite" version.
 
What I want to know is if it is functional without a black magic card and a control board. If you can just install it and use it.
 
It is functional, however the thing to remember is that you really need a CUDA based video card (NVidia) in order to really rock it. It needs to use the cores on one of those cards for it's processing. Otherwise it needs to have OpenCL capacity and not all Macs have that for instance. Practically the only thing missing from the paid version is localized denoising (useful if there is a bit of noise on a layer or in a part of the image) and multi-kernel processing. Otherwise, it's pretty much the same.

What you get for Lite is unthinkable for 2-3 years ago. To be honest, getting even the cheapest BM card is worth it. (They all work, despite the "recommendation" for their Extreme 3D card). So for like $285 you have one serious tool out there. It is so much better than Apple Color for instance that it just makes me smile. The tracking is fantastic. We are not going to even talk about Colorista...
 
yoclay said:
It is functional, however the thing to remember is that you really need a CUDA based video card (NVidia) in order to really rock it. It needs to use the cores on one of those cards for it's processing. Otherwise it needs to have OpenCL capacity and not all Macs have that for instance. Practically the only thing missing from the paid version is localized denoising (useful if there is a bit of noise on a layer or in a part of the image) and multi-kernel processing. Otherwise, it's pretty much the same.

What you get for Lite is unthinkable for 2-3 years ago. To be honest, getting even the cheapest BM card is worth it. (They all work, despite the "recommendation" for their Extreme 3D card). So for like $285 you have one serious tool out there. It is so much better than Apple Color for instance that it just makes me smile. The tracking is fantastic. We are not going to even talk about Colorista...
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AndrewGentle said:
Yes, it's really quite good and the principles of colour correction will carry over to other software packages anyway and Da Vinci includes advanced features that NLE based plugins could never have. It's extremely powerful and fully featured for a "lite" version.
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Thanks for the inputs, will give this baby a try.
 
I have the Mac version of Lite installed. It's awesome, but wow does it have a learning curve... it's great if you don't mind taking the time to learn it.
 
On resolve lite beta for windows, I've having issues pointing it to my external volumes- it keeps just defaulting to C. Not sure if I'm doing something wrong? (I'm talking about mounting volumes in the preferences window)
 
Mine gets stuck during installation. Anybody else had this problem? It gets stuck while installing "desktop video".
 
Well, now I disregarded the desktop video completely. I just installed Resolve. But once I get into a project and when I change any project setting and then hit "Apply" the program crashes.

Looks like I'll wait for the final version...
 
KINOKS said:
Well, now I disregarded the desktop video completely. I just installed Resolve. But once I get into a project and when I change any project setting and then hit "Apply" the program crashes.

Looks like I'll wait for the final version...
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Is your graphics card an nvidia CUDA capable?
 
On the DaVinci download page you should find a guide to Windows systems.

As far as I could make out the minimum recomended system is a Nvidia Quadro 600 for the display and a GTX580 as a GPU.

There is also a download operating manual, worth reading as otherwise the learning curve is more like Mt Everest.

I have the Quadro 600, but nothing else as yet, so it Resolve Lite complains every time I launch it, but I can still progress to the program itself.

Oh yes, my set-up is core i7 2600 4.4 GHz overclock, 8 gigs RAM, Win 7 Pro, Quadro 600, Dell 2709 ultrasharp wide-gamut monitor.
 
Yes my graphic card is CUDA enabled. It's a GTX470. It works well with Premiere pro for example.
But if it's as dave says then it is not enough. I have read though of people using the 470 with resolve...

The problem is as follows: upon entering the first screen of resolve (User login) I get a message "the GPU is also being used for image processing and so the performance may be limited". Then uppon entering a new project I get an error message saying "Critical exception: BtException: Driver not Loaded Driver not loaded". I can move past this message but when I change any project settings (like for instance switching from NTSC to PAL) and then clicking "Apply" the program crashes.

So, that's how it happens:)

My system specs are: i7 950 (3,2GHz), 24 gigs DDR3 ram, Win 7 Pro, GTX 470 (firmware 280.26 - the one that's supported officially), a 900W PSU, and a gygabite UDR3 motherboard.

THX for the help guys!
 
hunter richards said:
On resolve lite beta for windows, I've having issues pointing it to my external volumes- it keeps just defaulting to C. Not sure if I'm doing something wrong? (I'm talking about mounting volumes in the preferences window)
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An oddness of Resolve is you mount the source volumes then you must shut down ( Quit the app) then reopen the app. The Volumes will then be available.

Go figure why... but thats the way it is.

Awesome CC and Grade so its worth it.
 
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