I’ll just be sacrificing some realtime functionality.

Walter Biscardi mentioned on his blog just today that he’ll only be running a single graphics card (the nVidia 4800 Quadro for Mac), saying, “I was told by BMD that the 4800 will fully support Resolve by itself. That said, one supported system is a 17-inch MacBook Pro, though it is marked “suitable for SD and SD/HD shot preview.”Ĭhances are you’ll be able to get some kind of performance out of an unsupported system. Of course, one shouldn’t expect to be able to achieve real-time grading of HD material on a run-of-the-mill laptop. The recommended system won’t be as simple as installing it on any MacPro sitting around - Blackmagic is recommending two graphics cards, a fast RAID, and DeckLink HD Extreme. It’s 20 pages of detailed information that should answer any lingering questions about exactly what is required in the way of Mac hardware (CPU, graphics cards, video capture cards, storage) to run DaVinci for Mac at optimal capacity to get the most realtime performance. If you’re one of the many thinking about the upcoming DaVinci Resolve for Mac as a possible tool to add to your workflow, then you’ll probably be interested in the recently released DaVinci Resolve for Mac Configuration Guide ( pdf link).

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