Specifications

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DAVINCI RESOLVE FOR MAC - CERTIFIED CONFIGURATION GUIDE
Table of Contents
DaVinci Resolve for Mac 4
Selecting Hardware Configurations 5
Which Mac? 6
GUI Monitor 8
Graphics Processing Unit 8
PCIe and Thunderbolt
™
Expanders 8
UHD and 4K-DCI Image Processing 9
Connecting a Calibrated Grading Monitor 10
File System and Media Storage 11
Important note about Solid State Disk (SSD) speeds 12
Installing the DaVinci Resolve Application 13
Updating Third Party Drivers for Resolve 14
Systems with NVIDIA CUDA GPUs 14
NVIDIA drivers 14
CUDA drivers 14
Systems with RED Rocket 15
Rocket drivers and firmware 15
First Time You Start Resolve 16
Configuring Third Party Control Panels 17
Assembling Hardware for DaVinci Resolve 18
DaVinci Resolve on MacBook Pro with Retina Display 19
Shopping List 20
Connection Diagram 24
DaVinci Resolve on iMac 25
Shopping List 26
Connection Diagram 31
DaVinci Resolve on Mac Pro 32
Choosing graphics cards for your Mac Pro 35
Where to install your hardware for basic 2012 Mac Pro configurations 36
Where to install your hardware for 2012 Mac Pro and PCIe expansion chassis
configurations 37
Connection Diagram 46