Alternative to Davinci resolve?

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Foggy

Well having spent all day trying to get davinci resolve lite to work properly I have come to the conclusion my laptop just isn't upto the task.

I have a macbook pro with 8gb of ram but Davinci constantly freezes and tells me my gpu memory is full,making colour grading nigh on impossible.

Is there some alternative software I can use that is user friendly and will run nicer on my machine?

Cheers.
 
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I'm tempted to see if I can upgrade the RAM on my MBP again,its currently at 8gb which I thought would be enough but obviously not.If I can get it upto 16 then surely it will run resolve without issue.
 
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What model of MBP are you running?

There are many alternatives to Resolve, few of which are free.

Keep in mind: Resolve is designed for serious, professional colourists to run on ideally a dedicated machine designed for it.
The free version is simply limited slightly in its available output resolutions - the idea being that those who are serious about becoming colourists can learn on their system and when they're at a professional level and have the money and need to upgrade, they wil invest in the paid versions of Resolve (stick with what you know).
It's not designed as a simple/easy version designe for everyone to run for a bit of fun and to make their films look better.

IOW: If your computer can't run Resolve, there's probably not much else that's similar that it's going to run.
 
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Foggy said:
Ok just checked my MBP specs again and noticed it's only running 256mb of VRAM on the NVIDIA chip.

That gonna be my problem?
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Probably, all the cards they list I think came with 512MB minimum, some with muchmore:

ATI Radeon HD 5770
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285
NVIDIA Quadro 4000
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800
NVIDIA GTX 570

CraigL
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS5hxHupoMI

There's a bunch of how to color tutorials out there on youtube that go over the different parts of the program. I really like the ones by AppleShakeGuru.
 
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I've spent an inordinate amount of time cruising through youtube finding tutorials on how to use / do everything end to end as a filmmaker... head full of the stuff. I've also practiced it all to make it practical knowledge.
 
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HitFilm also has quite extensive grading capabilities, and a pretty decent price for the standard version. Also, quite a few VFX possibilities and some tracking thrown in.

They are also GPU driven though, but you can give the demo a try and see.

CraigL
 
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I tend to use MagicBullet's Looks/Colourista II/Mojo most of the time as they are easy to use, and I can quickly get the look I want pretty quick (not crazy huge pushes).

I also have Adobe SpeedGrade (Haven't tried it) and Davinci but they are mostly unused as the process is more complicate and MB's software generally gets me where I want to go.
 
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Cheers folks.I am now having some luck with Apple Color.Its a royal PITA to use seeing as you can't resize the windows and I am using a one screen setup, but its better than nothing.
 
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It's really powerful, it just takes time to figure out the tools available to you. Glad you're having success.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI4bqov91fw

Youtube tutorials are like a giant rabbit hole... just keep clickin on the related videos and you'll never run out of new stuff... eventually, you have to stop and apply what you've learned though ;)
 
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Cheers Knightly.At the moment the biggest hindrance is the single screen issue which means either clicking between the 2 separate windows or offsetting them so the parts I need most on each are visible,but the software itself is running without too much lag and from the hour or so play I have had with it seems very good.I am lost as to what I am doing but as you said,youtube tutorials are a way to take 8 hours of your day.

With your folks help I will get there I'm sure.
 
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