TIMECODES BELOW!!! ★ If you wish to purchase a DaVinci Resolve license, consider doing so through my Amazon affiliate link: geni.us/9hFKcm This gives me a small kickback for your purchase at no additional cost to you. Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 01:41 Requirements 02:23 Choosing Parts 04:53 Installing Resolve 05:38 Configure Networking 08:04 Project Database/Server Setup 11:43 Important Resolve Settings 14:45 Sending a Remote Render 17:41 Conclusion
I was actually looking into buying it yesterday, but I simply couln't find any "Buy" link on their own website :D Is these 299$ a one off price, you know that?
@@thedirectorsduo1887 Sure, but, in my opinion, quality of this video is off the charts thanks to its content, actually: Useful information not easy to find, complete, well structured, perfect pace delivery and also, of course! nailed image and audio. My respect to author!
I've decided that I'm gonna go all in and learn DaVinci Resolve instead of Premier. I'd love seeing more content from you expanding upon your greater knowledge of resolve and how to leverage all of its features. Especially cool within a gaming context too.
It may feel like a risk or a compromise now, but if you see how much it's grown, the amazing things BMD are doing in the camera space as well... Not a stretch to see it being the new do-it-all ecosystem.
I appreciate all these videos, dude. Recently switched to DaVinci and while I don't need a render server - this is still good info to absorb. Adding this to the think bank for future projects.
I've been putting this off for so long, but now Im' gonna give it a shot! Just wondering if there are any major updates or considerations since this was made quite some time ago. Keep up the great work!
i have been using Resolve (free version) since your video with level one tech and i gotta say i love it my videos seem to come out a lot better than they did with sony vegas 14 but i have one major point of confusion with it and thats the audio section, Any plans for a in dept audio edit tutorial on it? P.s keep up the great content :)
I'm late to the party; this is a great vid for help in setting up a remote renderer. One thing that made me twitch was the pronunciation of the database. Post Gress .... like that. :-) Elsewise good stuff.
I could have saved myself some time if I knew beforehand that this only works with the licensed/purchased da vinci resolve so NOT the FREE version. This is not criticism on the video cause the video is a good tutorial and so thanks for making it. Thumbs up!
Hi @EposVox, I have followed your guide and unfortunately it doesn't work on two windows machines even though both machines have firewall rules set-up as per guide. If I turn off firewall on host completely, then it works? Any ideas?
You definitely can make something like that using the Fusion tab, but to learn the node interface thing and how the things work will take time. Those "in betweens" tho to me look like they're made in after effects
@@EposVox Ok thanks for quick answer. I'm out for something that's easy, you know like iMovie or so, as my main focus is not on video editing, but game dev. However, I want my videos to look good - which they currently don't :)
look for fusion tutorials, motion graphics. Granted not alot of motion graphic focused ones. however alot of those are achievable using that feature of resolve when you know the basics. And unfortunately if your videos don't look good switching software is not a magic fix, most of the time. You'll still need to go through the pain of learning basics to achieve specific looks in individual software.
@@TheNewton Yeah I know just switching software won't help. But actually I'm use to learning new stuff. As a one-man-army building games, I need to be a Swiss army knife as I need to know so many different things. I don't master them all at all, but knowing the basics is a must. Lately I even learned some Blender and Gimp to do models for my game and I'm very much a developer, anyhow, always good to learn new stuff. I actually tried yesterday to make my videos just a little better, with the things I can handle when it comes to video editing. I spend some hours yesterday putting together a new channel trailer - turned out pretty good I think. At least it's good enough for now.
What are the weird blocky artifacts in the dark blue background when he is talking? An example is at 0:48 when you look at the different tones of the background.
Hi, did you ever make a Render Server in Resolve tutorial for the Mac that you mention at the beginning of this video? That's something I'd like to try. Thank you for the informative videos.
Great video, unfortunately doesn't seem to be relevant for Resolve 18.6.x ... manual suggests getting Project Server and the current installers don't have PostgreSQL. No reference on where one can get the Project Server installers (page 4064-4083 in the manual, along with page 4013-4016). Odd that BMD seem to obfuscate their downloads (Fusion for example)?
how did you get 2 different GPUs in 1 system. i cant get my pc to even boot with 1080 and 1080TI i'm runing an r7 1700x at 4ghz 32gb ram the system primarily for davinci resolve 15 / blender and some gaming
Good stuff. I'm new to this game as I just built 4 render servers on windows11. After putting the server in remote render mode, and selecting that server from the workstation, it never kicks off.
Nice Video: But I use Unraid to do the same thing, but simpler. I run Unraid as the main OS on my 3950x machine. I run Win 10 VM for gaming/streaming. I edit in windows 10 vm, then within unraid i have handbrake dockers setup with specific render settings I want. Example if I am editing a video for TH-cam, i have it setup for best setting for TH-cam upload, select this location within DR, just render the video in lossless, basically instant output to the handbrake docker folder. The handbrake docker is set up to auto scan this folder, if it sees a video in the folder, it automatically processes the video per the settings i set and then moves the origional to Origional folder and rendered video to Completion folder, then i have a TH-cam docker that auto uploads any video in this completion folder as private, which then moves the rendered video to my uploaded folder. I just go back later and edit the details online and can make it public if i want. This is how i render all the videos for clients for the houses I take video/pictures for as a side hustle. I honestly found DR rendered videos to be less in quality vs same settings in handbrake just FYI.
Please make one for mac. I am currently in the process of trying to set something up with my system, but I am a video guy not a computer guy. so any variation from your instructions would be very overwhelming. great video though you were very informative. Thanks!
The "Native" encoder probably looks better bit-for-bit, but at high bitrates the significance of that falls away. And the NVENC encoder is signifiantly much faster
I had issues connecting to the database from the editing machine. I just added the local PostgreSQL Port 5432 as inbound firewall rule on the render server machine and now it works flawless.
Is it possible to do with windows and mac? I usually edit my videos in a macbook pro but I want to use the power of the graphic card of my windows computer (RTX 2070 super). I have this computer installed in a simracing cockpit and for this reason I can't use it comfortably to edit the videos.
Hmm.. you mentioned in your intro... the possibility of setting up a mac as a rendering server. That piques my interest as I am building a new PC for editing, and going to relegate my 27" Imac as a web browser... or turn it into a possible a rendering machine.
Love your videos old and new. Just one thing... its pronounced Post-Gres-Q-L. LOL, since this is and 9 month old video, you might have already figured that out which you can then ignore me. All-in-all always love your tutorial videos.
As of DaVinci Resolve Version 16.2.7.010 this feature does exist (again?). I can right-click on the Project Manager and select "Remote Rendering" which opens a new/untitled project, and it becomes available as a remote rendering machine
Wow, nice video... it nice to hear a network tech talk. I have several older multi-able servers computer laying around and rack servers with multi-mirror drives. ( Can I use the older 2nd computer for rendering like an I7 4 core, using ddr3 with 64 gigs on board with a two gig GPU ) for rendering if that all it going to be used for... I do not care how long it takes. Just saving on the pocketbook for now until... I have a better understanding of the whole process. Or am wasting my time and build a 2nd new machine for just rendering?
Of note, I think it is important to consider what you're aiming to get out of the box before building it. If your channel is something like a news channel where being first to market is critical, you want to build a beast that can scream through the render. Breaking news isn't very breaking when your audience has already watched the story on someone else's channel. Conversely, if you're doing let's plays or something and time isn't critical, you only need to build a machine that is beefy enough to render your content at your average daily rate. For example, if you upload 60 minutes of video per day and you don't need it to render in a hurry, it doesn't matter if your server takes 24 hours to chew through 1 hour of footage. (Probably plan some overhead and growth potential though.)
Now, if something similar could be done locally (think like the old DebugMode frame server).. Not sure why, but DaVinci Resolve crashes after 1-15 frames when I try to render with any codec, but it’ll just chug along when I render uncompressed (with the limiting factor being that uncompressed files fill up my NAS pretty darn quick). Rendering uncompressed, I can even play games on medium without killing an 8K60 render, but the moment I use any of the available internal codecs (DNxHR, HEVC, whatever), it drops dead after a few frames and occasionally takes my whole system with it.
Is there still any relevance in this now 4 years later? If so, how would a mini pc do? The AMD versions seem speedy enough. Just started watching this so might be redundant.. can you set up a cluster if machines to render? On the same project that is 😂
How do you deal with different file systems between client and render server? I'm looking at building a ZFS storage server that will serve as a working raid for both client and render server over 10gbe.
Your render server would just be operating within a VM like Windows 10 or 11, and then you’d make sure your IO is mapped properly so the VM utilizes all the components in the Unraid server, like the local ZFS array etc. and then have that array also shared via shares on the local editing machine. I haven’t done this personally. But just verbally explaining how I would go about doing it.
They probably install postgres on a different node because it can eat a lot of RAM.. And can help to take some stress out of the render server.. (I'm just guessing, not very conversant how Davinci Resolve works) but that's how is done with other apps.
quick note. I had to unblock postgres.exe in my firewall. unsure if you mentioned that in the video, as I must have missed it. However, I was unable to connect to shared database until this file was unblocked.
I have a 7700k CPU and z270 gaming 7 mobo with 2 GPUs and am curious to know how my GPUs are affecting performance for resolve 15.4 Studio. Two cards are running in x8 modes, one card is 1070ti and another 970. I feel like Resolve doesn't not play well with different GPUs and I am wondering if the fact I am running x8 is hurting performance. Do you have any knowledge on these thoughts? Noise reduction murders my export FPS.
Woow great video!! Im building a new editing pc this summer and my current pc could be a renderpc. It has a i7 2600k, 16gb ram and a gtx 970. Would that be enough?
Wonderful video , Jam packed with great info. Has anybody had any luck using an m1 mac as the editing machine with a windows box as the remote renderer?
Awesome job. And it works. Just need both pcs on. Is it possible to have the database on a nas? So it doesnt matter if a pc is on or not? I was using a load of usb 3 sticks cloned and made the database on there with all the drive mappings the same and using google drive sync to populate the drives. But this works so much better. I just need to get another 1050ti as the render bix only has a 1030. I cant go better for the gpu as using sff z220 workstation. I7 3770 with 32gb of ram in the editing and 16gb in the render. Well done on the best walk through on this.
@@EposVox thank you for taking the time to reply. I will just stick to the database being on the renderbox ssd and map it back to the editing pc. The video was well worth the wait. Thank you again.
Your requirements say Davinci Resolve studio, is that the paid only version? I followed a long with the free version and I am having trouble connecting my other pc's to the renderer.
Can you go from an Apple Machine to render on a windows machine? I am upgrading and I want to know If I can keep using my machine or need to buy another.
As of 15.2.2 Resolve now supports setting up a remote render machine by right clicking in an empty space in the project window. No need to open an untitled project and switch the workspace. I know because I'm using 15.2.4. It's also the first item in the changelog for 15.2.2 forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=83411
I guess my complaining back in October worked. I had been told by BM Staff in the forums and again via email that the right-click Remote Rendering workspace had been removed in 15.2 and the manual hadn't been updated and would be in time. Looks like the original workspace is still gone, but they added a shortcut to get to the normal project workspace back to the Project Manager. That's kinda funny, actually.
In the context of a post facility, you’d want your database server running on dedicated hardware because anytime that system may freeze, crash, reboot, or need updates, etc - that takes down your entire facility for exactly the amount of time the machine is down. Running renders on the database server is asking for this.
Apparently resolve 15 has an issue with multiple ports on a pc. I have a 10gb nic and it turns out having that additonal post confuses the hell out of resolve and the databases cant connect. A tech has told me it might be fixed in 16 idk
o_O I was using it with 10 gigabit nics that are PCIe add-in cards. Never had an issue. If anything that'd be a PostgreSQL issue which could be resolved with config changes (over my head) and not likely a direct Resolve-specific issue.
You mentioned the Nvidia encoder option, is that the one that they have in the patch notes for 15.2 about support for certain Nvidia gpu's in h.264 and h.265? Have you done any quality and speed benchmarks vs the native encoder? I asked Puget Systems on Twitter today, Matt Bach the senior lab technician, responded with, "I haven't tested it in Resolve, but any hardware accelerated encoding (whether Quicksync or NVENC) is going to be lower quality than software only. I think it is a great option for dailies or client review where quality isn't as important, but for a final export I wouldn't use it." I understand that their clientele is working with a substantially different workflow than I am, is the slight quality differences noticeable for TH-cam content since it's going to be compressed by TH-cam anyway?
Yeah it was added in 15.2. I haven't done actual benchmarks, but it's significantly faster than native. HW encoding is always lower quality than software, but when you're giving it beefy bitrates and posting to TH-cam
@@QuickshotGaming For H264 stuff, I just leave it on defaults, which in Resolve is quality control and "Best" - which can vary but gets really high. But I'm a madman, if the video is shorter (and thus under YT's 128GB limit) I upload uncompressed DNxHR 10-bit or Cineform 10-bit. And all of my Premiere 4K presets START at 100mbps.
EposVox hmm I've been using the restrict to and setting the 45 Mbps youtube recommends for the high end for 4k 24, 25, and 30 fps videos. I'm up scaling from iOS screen recorded videos of a mobile game so the starting files are only 1334x750 and 3 Mbps. I know there's only so much you can do to make a video look good with a low bitrate starting file. Should I just use the best quality setting? I set the encoding profile to high as well.
I guess with the M1's chewing through realtime 8K like it was 320*240 makes all the "why the hell would anyone use a Mac" rhetoric feel a little silly now. Just pick the tool that serves you well and dont mock others for their choices, its intellectually lazy at best. Thanks for the video, good stuff.
It doesn't work with the free version I suppose ? I've got a separate computer that I could use for rendering but I make like 5 videos a year and don't make any money on it. So as much as I love resolve I can't justify the 300$ asking price. Anyway to get this to work with the free version ?
@@maximravinet9950 export the .drp files. And store them on a network drive. I moved to studio but the drp file export and import should help do the same thing. Drp are smaller when its just the drp as they are without all the images etc. If you keep a database jusy for rendering you can view all unrendered projects so you can batch them all out. Its not as smooth as this in studio. But it works
in that case can't the project just be exported from your main workstation then imported to the "server" manually? Then automated with something like autoit?
In industry (software development), we generally just refer to it as Postgres. Way too much of a mouthful otherwise. It's also the original name of the project.
@@EposVox davinci on my Linux blocks on start up, asking to modify gpu settings, and there is no gpu presented. I made a guess that its a driver problem of my Ubuntu 20.04 setup. Also i have Just run the same davinci resolve win version on win 10, and it loaded cpu up to 25% and gpu to 99% (Intel uhd gpu on laptop)... So i supposed that gpu is important
TIMECODES BELOW!!!
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Timecodes:
00:00 Intro
01:41 Requirements
02:23 Choosing Parts
04:53 Installing Resolve
05:38 Configure Networking
08:04 Project Database/Server Setup
11:43 Important Resolve Settings
14:45 Sending a Remote Render
17:41 Conclusion
I was actually looking into buying it yesterday, but I simply couln't find any "Buy" link on their own website :D
Is these 299$ a one off price, you know that?
Yep! Buy it once, own it forever!! Two activations at a time, but you can move them around between computers etc
How many licenses do you need 2 or one? One for render pc and one for Editing pc or is it enough to buy one license for studio?
@@EposVox Thank You... this exactly what i was looking for...
Please do this for premiere
Quality of this video is off the charts!
Thanks dude!
@@EposVox Dude what are u doing? This video looks better than reality. Which tricks do u use to get this fantastic quality?
1 year later ... this video's quality is *still* better than most YT content. Great video!
Just thought the same, never have seen such an high fps clear youtube upload :D
@@thedirectorsduo1887 Sure, but, in my opinion, quality of this video is off the charts thanks to its content, actually:
Useful information not easy to find, complete, well structured, perfect pace delivery and also, of course! nailed image and audio.
My respect to author!
Really glad to see you making some more Davinci Resolve videos. I use it myself and I love it.
Me too, happy to see more videoes here and EposVox thoughts and tricks for Davinci.
I've decided that I'm gonna go all in and learn DaVinci Resolve instead of Premier. I'd love seeing more content from you expanding upon your greater knowledge of resolve and how to leverage all of its features. Especially cool within a gaming context too.
MaximilianK1 good decision IMO
www.premiumbeat.com/blog/davinci-resolve-free-video-editor-guide/
It may feel like a risk or a compromise now, but if you see how much it's grown, the amazing things BMD are doing in the camera space as well... Not a stretch to see it being the new do-it-all ecosystem.
I appreciate all these videos, dude. Recently switched to DaVinci and while I don't need a render server - this is still good info to absorb. Adding this to the think bank for future projects.
This is such an EXTREMELY niche video but extremely helpful. Thanks!
I've been putting this off for so long, but now Im' gonna give it a shot! Just wondering if there are any major updates or considerations since this was made quite some time ago. Keep up the great work!
i have been using Resolve (free version) since your video with level one tech and i gotta say i love it my videos seem to come out a lot better than they did with sony vegas 14 but i have one major point of confusion with it and thats the audio section, Any plans for a in dept audio edit tutorial on it? P.s keep up the great content :)
Great video! Thanks for all the work
I'm late to the party; this is a great vid for help in setting up a remote renderer. One thing that made me twitch was the pronunciation of the database.
Post Gress .... like that. :-)
Elsewise good stuff.
I could have saved myself some time if I knew beforehand that this only works with the licensed/purchased da vinci resolve so NOT the FREE version.
This is not criticism on the video cause the video is a good tutorial and so thanks for making it. Thumbs up!
I also mention at the start that this is "a feature included in the paid studio version" :P
@@EposVox i guessed i missed that
Hi
@EposVox, I have followed your guide and unfortunately it doesn't work on two windows machines even though both machines have firewall rules set-up as per guide. If I turn off firewall on host completely, then it works? Any ideas?
Great video man. You nailed it!
PostgreSQL is usually pronounced "Post - Gress - (S)QL. Easy to remember if you think of "post-it notes".
That just never works in my brain since "SQL" usually stands on its own xDD
Great vid! Pro tip: PostgreSQL is pronounced "post" (like "host") gre (as in the start of "grenade") SQL (just read out the letters).
These small "in between" animations/transitions, are they made in Davinci? If yes, you have some links to where to learn how to do that?
Thanks :)
You definitely can make something like that using the Fusion tab, but to learn the node interface thing and how the things work will take time. Those "in betweens" tho to me look like they're made in after effects
Yeah it's an After Effects package. It's totally possible, but will be a long time before I learn that kind of stuff in Fusion haha
@@EposVox Ok thanks for quick answer. I'm out for something that's easy, you know like iMovie or so, as my main focus is not on video editing, but game dev. However, I want my videos to look good - which they currently don't :)
look for fusion tutorials, motion graphics. Granted not alot of motion graphic focused ones. however alot of those are achievable using that feature of resolve when you know the basics.
And unfortunately if your videos don't look good switching software is not a magic fix, most of the time. You'll still need to go through the pain of learning basics to achieve specific looks in individual software.
@@TheNewton Yeah I know just switching software won't help. But actually I'm use to learning new stuff. As a one-man-army building games, I need to be a Swiss army knife as I need to know so many different things. I don't master them all at all, but knowing the basics is a must.
Lately I even learned some Blender and Gimp to do models for my game and I'm very much a developer, anyhow, always good to learn new stuff.
I actually tried yesterday to make my videos just a little better, with the things I can handle when it comes to video editing. I spend some hours yesterday putting together a new channel trailer - turned out pretty good I think. At least it's good enough for now.
Would love to see a linux version
OMG! Thank you.. I was pulling my hair out trying to get remote rendering to work! 13:50 solved my issues!
What are the weird blocky artifacts in the dark blue background when he is talking?
An example is at 0:48 when you look at the different tones of the background.
Hi, did you ever make a Render Server in Resolve tutorial for the Mac that you mention at the beginning of this video? That's something I'd like to try. Thank you for the informative videos.
theres a reason he mentioned the Mac, but it wasnt to help Mac users..if you catch my drift
Great video, unfortunately doesn't seem to be relevant for Resolve 18.6.x ... manual suggests getting Project Server and the current installers don't have PostgreSQL. No reference on where one can get the Project Server installers (page 4064-4083 in the manual, along with page 4013-4016). Odd that BMD seem to obfuscate their downloads (Fusion for example)?
how did you get 2 different GPUs in 1 system. i cant get my pc to even boot with 1080 and 1080TI i'm runing an r7 1700x at 4ghz 32gb ram the system primarily for davinci resolve 15 / blender and some gaming
This videos are top notch 💪
This is for a single computer server to render video... what about a cluster computer system? How would that be done with davinci?
Good stuff. I'm new to this game as I just built 4 render servers on windows11. After putting the server in remote render mode, and selecting that server from the workstation, it never kicks off.
Top tutorial, 100% thanks for this !!!
So helpful!! Thanks you for this!
Nice Video: But I use Unraid to do the same thing, but simpler. I run Unraid as the main OS on my 3950x machine. I run Win 10 VM for gaming/streaming. I edit in windows 10 vm, then within unraid i have handbrake dockers setup with specific render settings I want. Example if I am editing a video for TH-cam, i have it setup for best setting for TH-cam upload, select this location within DR, just render the video in lossless, basically instant output to the handbrake docker folder. The handbrake docker is set up to auto scan this folder, if it sees a video in the folder, it automatically processes the video per the settings i set and then moves the origional to Origional folder and rendered video to Completion folder, then i have a TH-cam docker that auto uploads any video in this completion folder as private, which then moves the rendered video to my uploaded folder. I just go back later and edit the details online and can make it public if i want. This is how i render all the videos for clients for the houses I take video/pictures for as a side hustle. I honestly found DR rendered videos to be less in quality vs same settings in handbrake just FYI.
Please make one for mac. I am currently in the process of trying to set something up with my system, but I am a video guy not a computer guy. so any variation from your instructions would be very overwhelming. great video though you were very informative. Thanks!
Did you ever figure this out? I'm looking to make a Mac Mini into my remote rendering machine
WIth current CUDA acceleration implemented in resolve 16.1+ having multiple GPUs for R3D decode on rendering is vastly improved.
Is just that new improved NVenc on RTX cards superior, or is NVenc just generally producing a better result (not just faster) ?
The "Native" encoder probably looks better bit-for-bit, but at high bitrates the significance of that falls away. And the NVENC encoder is signifiantly much faster
Davinci Resolve 15
is bay far the best video editor in 2019
I had issues connecting to the database from the editing machine. I just added the local PostgreSQL Port 5432 as inbound firewall rule on the render server machine and now it works flawless.
Do you have a video for mac? maybe an updated version ?
Is it possible to do with windows and mac? I usually edit my videos in a macbook pro but I want to use the power of the graphic card of my windows computer (RTX 2070 super). I have this computer installed in a simracing cockpit and for this reason I can't use it comfortably to edit the videos.
Yep!
Hmm.. you mentioned in your intro... the possibility of setting up a mac as a rendering server. That piques my interest as I am building a new PC for editing, and going to relegate my 27" Imac as a web browser... or turn it into a possible a rendering machine.
is the process for Mac anymore complicated? or simplifed by using a windows virtual machine on mac?
Love your videos old and new. Just one thing... its pronounced Post-Gres-Q-L. LOL, since this is and 9 month old video, you might have already figured that out which you can then ignore me. All-in-all always love your tutorial videos.
As of DaVinci Resolve Version 16.2.7.010 this feature does exist (again?). I can right-click on the Project Manager and select "Remote Rendering" which opens a new/untitled project, and it becomes available as a remote rendering machine
Wow, nice video... it nice to hear a network tech talk. I have several older multi-able servers computer laying around and rack servers with multi-mirror drives. ( Can I use the older 2nd computer for rendering like an I7 4 core, using ddr3 with 64 gigs on board with a two gig GPU ) for rendering if that all it going to be used for... I do not care how long it takes. Just saving on the pocketbook for now until... I have a better understanding of the whole process. Or am wasting my time and build a 2nd new machine for just rendering?
Of note, I think it is important to consider what you're aiming to get out of the box before building it. If your channel is something like a news channel where being first to market is critical, you want to build a beast that can scream through the render. Breaking news isn't very breaking when your audience has already watched the story on someone else's channel. Conversely, if you're doing let's plays or something and time isn't critical, you only need to build a machine that is beefy enough to render your content at your average daily rate. For example, if you upload 60 minutes of video per day and you don't need it to render in a hurry, it doesn't matter if your server takes 24 hours to chew through 1 hour of footage. (Probably plan some overhead and growth potential though.)
Now, if something similar could be done locally (think like the old DebugMode frame server)..
Not sure why, but DaVinci Resolve crashes after 1-15 frames when I try to render with any codec, but it’ll just chug along when I render uncompressed (with the limiting factor being that uncompressed files fill up my NAS pretty darn quick). Rendering uncompressed, I can even play games on medium without killing an 8K60 render, but the moment I use any of the available internal codecs (DNxHR, HEVC, whatever), it drops dead after a few frames and occasionally takes my whole system with it.
Support for davinci resolve! This video will below up when davinci gets bigger
+1 for mac version!
Is there still any relevance in this now 4 years later?
If so, how would a mini pc do? The AMD versions seem speedy enough.
Just started watching this so might be redundant.. can you set up a cluster if machines to render? On the same project that is 😂
How do you deal with different file systems between client and render server?
I'm looking at building a ZFS storage server that will serve as a working raid for both client and render server over 10gbe.
Your render server would just be operating within a VM like Windows 10 or 11, and then you’d make sure your IO is mapped properly so the VM utilizes all the components in the Unraid server, like the local ZFS array etc. and then have that array also shared via shares on the local editing machine. I haven’t done this personally. But just verbally explaining how I would go about doing it.
Resolve does not have a “cpu” or “software only” mode - display gpu enabled or not
They probably install postgres on a different node because it can eat a lot of RAM.. And can help to take some stress out of the render server.. (I'm just guessing, not very conversant how Davinci Resolve works) but that's how is done with other apps.
PostgresSQL is pronounced thusly: POST-grehs-S-Q-L
quick note. I had to unblock postgres.exe in my firewall. unsure if you mentioned that in the video, as I must have missed it. However, I was unable to connect to shared database until this file was unblocked.
I have a 7700k CPU and z270 gaming 7 mobo with 2 GPUs and am curious to know how my GPUs are affecting performance for resolve 15.4 Studio. Two cards are running in x8 modes, one card is 1070ti and another 970. I feel like Resolve doesn't not play well with different GPUs and I am wondering if the fact I am running x8 is hurting performance. Do you have any knowledge on these thoughts? Noise reduction murders my export FPS.
Woow great video!! Im building a new editing pc this summer and my current pc could be a renderpc. It has a i7 2600k, 16gb ram and a gtx 970. Would that be enough?
I am so struggling to getting this set up between 2 macs....
Would this work over internet as well?
rendering davinci resolve 16 is need internet connection?
Can you use Da Vinci resolve free version with this?
Wonderful video , Jam packed with great info.
Has anybody had any luck using an m1 mac as the editing machine with a windows box as the remote renderer?
Have you made one of these for Mac yet?
Wouldn't a ryzen 5 1600 be better for the price compared to a 9590
Awesome job. And it works. Just need both pcs on. Is it possible to have the database on a nas? So it doesnt matter if a pc is on or not?
I was using a load of usb 3 sticks cloned and made the database on there with all the drive mappings the same and using google drive sync to populate the drives. But this works so much better. I just need to get another 1050ti as the render bix only has a 1030. I cant go better for the gpu as using sff z220 workstation. I7 3770 with 32gb of ram in the editing and 16gb in the render. Well done on the best walk through on this.
Unless your NAS can run Resolve, no.
@@EposVox thank you for taking the time to reply. I will just stick to the database being on the renderbox ssd and map it back to the editing pc. The video was well worth the wait. Thank you again.
Your requirements say Davinci Resolve studio, is that the paid only version? I followed a long with the free version and I am having trouble connecting my other pc's to the renderer.
Yes it's the paid version. AFAIK the free version doesn't support the networking but I could be wrong.
Can you please create a tutorial for the Mac eco system too. Please please please......
Can you go from an Apple Machine to render on a windows machine? I am upgrading and I want to know If I can keep using my machine or need to buy another.
Yep! Just can't send ProRes to render on Windows since the encoder isn't available on Windows yet
Any tutorial on how to set this up on a Mac?
What do you have on your vocal bus
As of 15.2.2 Resolve now supports setting up a remote render machine by right clicking in an empty space in the project window. No need to open an untitled project and switch the workspace. I know because I'm using 15.2.4. It's also the first item in the changelog for 15.2.2 forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=83411
I guess my complaining back in October worked. I had been told by BM Staff in the forums and again via email that the right-click Remote Rendering workspace had been removed in 15.2 and the manual hadn't been updated and would be in time.
Looks like the original workspace is still gone, but they added a shortcut to get to the normal project workspace back to the Project Manager. That's kinda funny, actually.
In the context of a post facility, you’d want your database server running on dedicated hardware because anytime that system may freeze, crash, reboot, or need updates, etc - that takes down your entire facility for exactly the amount of time the machine is down. Running renders on the database server is asking for this.
Sure, but people building out a production house's infrastructure aren't looking up TH-cam tutorials :P
Can someone explain ... what do you need for this remote render?
What do you mean? That's what this video answers lol
Apparently resolve 15 has an issue with multiple ports on a pc. I have a 10gb nic and it turns out having that additonal post confuses the hell out of resolve and the databases cant connect. A tech has told me it might be fixed in 16 idk
o_O I was using it with 10 gigabit nics that are PCIe add-in cards. Never had an issue. If anything that'd be a PostgreSQL issue which could be resolved with config changes (over my head) and not likely a direct Resolve-specific issue.
@@EposVox yeah maybe it's because my nics are on a 10.10.10.1 ip and everything else is 192
You mentioned the Nvidia encoder option, is that the one that they have in the patch notes for 15.2 about support for certain Nvidia gpu's in h.264 and h.265? Have you done any quality and speed benchmarks vs the native encoder? I asked Puget Systems on Twitter today, Matt Bach the senior lab technician, responded with, "I haven't tested it in Resolve, but any hardware accelerated encoding (whether Quicksync or NVENC) is going to be lower quality than software only. I think it is a great option for dailies or client review where quality isn't as important, but for a final export I wouldn't use it." I understand that their clientele is working with a substantially different workflow than I am, is the slight quality differences noticeable for TH-cam content since it's going to be compressed by TH-cam anyway?
Yeah it was added in 15.2.
I haven't done actual benchmarks, but it's significantly faster than native.
HW encoding is always lower quality than software, but when you're giving it beefy bitrates and posting to TH-cam
What bitrate are you using? I'm guessing well above what TH-cam recommends?
@@QuickshotGaming For H264 stuff, I just leave it on defaults, which in Resolve is quality control and "Best" - which can vary but gets really high.
But I'm a madman, if the video is shorter (and thus under YT's 128GB limit) I upload uncompressed DNxHR 10-bit or Cineform 10-bit.
And all of my Premiere 4K presets START at 100mbps.
EposVox hmm I've been using the restrict to and setting the 45 Mbps youtube recommends for the high end for 4k 24, 25, and 30 fps videos. I'm up scaling from iOS screen recorded videos of a mobile game so the starting files are only 1334x750 and 3 Mbps. I know there's only so much you can do to make a video look good with a low bitrate starting file. Should I just use the best quality setting? I set the encoding profile to high as well.
Nice
I guess with the M1's chewing through realtime 8K like it was 320*240 makes all the "why the hell would anyone use a Mac" rhetoric feel a little silly now. Just pick the tool that serves you well and dont mock others for their choices, its intellectually lazy at best. Thanks for the video, good stuff.
I think the “why the hell would anyone use a Mac” is for making a Mac a rendering rig, rather than an editing rig
Correct pronunciation sounds like POST-GRESS-Q-L
5:20 for extra nerd points, pronounce SQL “sequel”
I prefer the first movie tbh
Is a separate license required for the render server?
One license key gives you two activations. You can move them around between PCs and etc., but can only have two activated at one time per license.
need this but for mac =(
Zezima!!
Can computer A use an Nvidia card and computer B use a Radeon card?
I described issues with that in the video.
@@EposVox oh ok. I thought you were describing having the two cards in one system
It doesn't work with the free version I suppose ? I've got a separate computer that I could use for rendering but I make like 5 videos a year and don't make any money on it. So as much as I love resolve I can't justify the 300$ asking price. Anyway to get this to work with the free version ?
Doesn't work with free version. Covered in the video.
@@EposVox sorry didn't hear it 😉thanks for the answer. Keep up the amazing work
@@maximravinet9950 export the .drp files. And store them on a network drive. I moved to studio but the drp file export and import should help do the same thing. Drp are smaller when its just the drp as they are without all the images etc. If you keep a database jusy for rendering you can view all unrendered projects so you can batch them all out. Its not as smooth as this in studio. But it works
in that case can't the project just be exported from your main workstation then imported to the "server" manually? Then automated with something like autoit?
In industry (software development), we generally just refer to it as Postgres. Way too much of a mouthful otherwise. It's also the original name of the project.
Just as well I've kept my GTX1050ti rather than sell it
Mac please!
My god. Davinci is smthing so far away From kdenlive.... Need to install Windows somewhere... Davinci not see My rx580 AMD when run on Ubuntu.
The free version doesn’t have GPU encoding
@@EposVox davinci on my Linux blocks on start up, asking to modify gpu settings, and there is no gpu presented. I made a guess that its a driver problem of my Ubuntu 20.04 setup.
Also i have Just run the same davinci resolve win version on win 10, and it loaded cpu up to 25% and gpu to 99% (Intel uhd gpu on laptop)... So i supposed that gpu is important
DA VINKY???
Awful lot of commercial breaks renders this video close to useless to me. Sorry.
Everybody is running back to Windows 7, so you might want to keep that in mind.
That's not true
OMG, DarkMode on Windows looks ewful... 😩
Yup
well that is one opinion, I love it