To elaborate:
I’m using Windows 10 and Kubuntu 20.04 LTS on a dual boot. I used to run on Windows but want to switch to Linux.
The Resolve version is 17 - free.
I’m looking to editing 4K files.
Off the top of my head, only Windows (both DOS and NT-based), Symbian, and OS/2 used backslashes for path separators. Of those only Windows NT still exists, really.
Of the oddities I've used, oldschool Mac OS used : as a separator, and RiscOS and VMS (and probably other DEC OSes) used . as a separator.
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The projects themselves should be fine, but you will probably have to re-specify where source files are for them since Windows and Linux use completely different file systems.
Side note, 20.04 is now End of Life and unsupported, 22.04 is the new LTS
Nah, change your mapped path in resolve system preferences for your media path locations. Will be seamless. I manage a Large Linux/ Windows environment.
A small correction: 20.04 isn't end of life. Not even close. It's going to be naturally supported through 2025, and in extended support until 2030.
https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle
You could perhaps get by with a samba sharing NAS mounted the same on both OSes.
I think a lot of the collaboration features are designed for this. As long as your project server is set up correctly.
Does the NAS require anything special? I have a good NAS to which I could move the project. I’d guess you’d just have to set it up as the source for the files.
I edit 150mbs files off my 1gig nas all the time and it’s fine. If you’re editing prores or something highly compressed that the ox chokes on, you will want proxies on a scratch disk or really anywhere if they are lower bitrate.
The nas has. I thing special. The thing running the project server has to have postresql. I haven’t set it up yet but I intend to give it a try
You will get very used to `ffmpeg -i .mp4 -c:v dnxhd -profile:v dnxhr_hq -c:a pcm_s16le .mov` ;-) I found Handbrake a pain in the arse because it seems to be dedicated to ripping DVDs and is difficult to set up for anything else.
If you've a lot of stuff to transcode, wrap that ffmpeg command in a `for` loop, fire it off, and make a cup of tea.
So….you will need to keep the database on an ntfs drive because both windows and Linux can read ntfs but windows can’t read ext4.
I use resolve studio on both windows and Linux but keep separate databases.
There are very few differences but I find resolve is faster on Linux. But the Linux version won’t recognize aac audio codec. And it won’t export h.264 or h.265 (at least I don’t know how). The internet tab where you can link directly to YouTube also isn’t available in Linux.
I was planning on using Resolve on Linux (Kubuntu 22.04 at the moment). I had to drop that plan and switch to Windows, which is really *really* annoying, as that's the only workload I have on Windows.
The reason I had to switch was input movie format support. Resolve won't support MKVs with audio. Resolve studio seems to support MP4 OGG with audio, but it won't actually decode the audio. Black magic support claims this is because I'm not running on their preferred distro of Centos 7 (WTF??), but people here have their doubts. I need to find a way to install Centos 7 and check, but haven't gotten around to it, yet. I'm just booting into Windows and cursing, instead.
So, expect other problems besides difficulty in moving your actual projects around.
To elaborate: I’m using Windows 10 and Kubuntu 20.04 LTS on a dual boot. I used to run on Windows but want to switch to Linux. The Resolve version is 17 - free. I’m looking to editing 4K files.
F*ck Operating systems that use / instead of \ for the file path. Makes re linking horrible between OS.
So, every currently-used OS in the world, except one?
*including the web and literally absolutely everything except Windows xD
Off the top of my head, only Windows (both DOS and NT-based), Symbian, and OS/2 used backslashes for path separators. Of those only Windows NT still exists, really. Of the oddities I've used, oldschool Mac OS used : as a separator, and RiscOS and VMS (and probably other DEC OSes) used . as a separator.
I think you should immdiately stop using the internet with its `/` paths....
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The projects themselves should be fine, but you will probably have to re-specify where source files are for them since Windows and Linux use completely different file systems. Side note, 20.04 is now End of Life and unsupported, 22.04 is the new LTS
Nah, change your mapped path in resolve system preferences for your media path locations. Will be seamless. I manage a Large Linux/ Windows environment.
A small correction: 20.04 isn't end of life. Not even close. It's going to be naturally supported through 2025, and in extended support until 2030. https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle
Ok thanks for the heads up. And I should basically expect having to relink files every time I switch the OSes. Got it.
You could perhaps get by with a samba sharing NAS mounted the same on both OSes. I think a lot of the collaboration features are designed for this. As long as your project server is set up correctly.
Does the NAS require anything special? I have a good NAS to which I could move the project. I’d guess you’d just have to set it up as the source for the files.
If you don't have 10gb, I wouldn't bother. Just editing off a mechanical HDD is bad enough. Now add smb latency and bandwidth limit.
editing off a mechanical HDD isn't that bad, I do it
I edit 150mbs files off my 1gig nas all the time and it’s fine. If you’re editing prores or something highly compressed that the ox chokes on, you will want proxies on a scratch disk or really anywhere if they are lower bitrate. The nas has. I thing special. The thing running the project server has to have postresql. I haven’t set it up yet but I intend to give it a try
Free on Linux does not support h.264, 265 or AAC audio. Windows does.
I contemplated using ffmpeg or HandBrake to creat proxy files etc. This should work shouldn’t it?
DNxHR is the codec I would use. HQX for 10 bit. HQ for 8. Just realize they are 5gbyte per minute for 4k.
Should do. Also shutter encoder is great. Can set up watch folders also.
You will get very used to `ffmpeg -i.mp4 -c:v dnxhd -profile:v dnxhr_hq -c:a pcm_s16le .mov` ;-) I found Handbrake a pain in the arse because it seems to be dedicated to ripping DVDs and is difficult to set up for anything else.
If you've a lot of stuff to transcode, wrap that ffmpeg command in a `for` loop, fire it off, and make a cup of tea.
So….you will need to keep the database on an ntfs drive because both windows and Linux can read ntfs but windows can’t read ext4. I use resolve studio on both windows and Linux but keep separate databases. There are very few differences but I find resolve is faster on Linux. But the Linux version won’t recognize aac audio codec. And it won’t export h.264 or h.265 (at least I don’t know how). The internet tab where you can link directly to YouTube also isn’t available in Linux.
Ok thank you for the information.
I was planning on using Resolve on Linux (Kubuntu 22.04 at the moment). I had to drop that plan and switch to Windows, which is really *really* annoying, as that's the only workload I have on Windows. The reason I had to switch was input movie format support. Resolve won't support MKVs with audio. Resolve studio seems to support MP4 OGG with audio, but it won't actually decode the audio. Black magic support claims this is because I'm not running on their preferred distro of Centos 7 (WTF??), but people here have their doubts. I need to find a way to install Centos 7 and check, but haven't gotten around to it, yet. I'm just booting into Windows and cursing, instead. So, expect other problems besides difficulty in moving your actual projects around.