New MacBook Pro and Resolume

[syn]

It's a spectacular machine except for that huge omission.

Most people don't care about gpu's though and what form factor, styling, battery life and screen quality (and aspect ratio, but the lack of 16:10 screens outside Apple products is a personal gripe) is concerned they are hard to beat.

They've consistently introduced high-end technology in their products. Thunderbolt and pci-e ssd are great features that I wish were more widely adopted in pc's.

A lot of power users could switch (back) to pc's because of baffling choices regarding their high-end products but they'll most likely compensate that with an increase in macbook air sales (which is a great product at a high but fairly reasonable price imo).

[weezhum]

I must say that Resolume Arena 4 works great on my late 2013 MBP with the GeForce 750m.

[renanmarc]

I have a feeling when using resolume in a OSX based system and Windows based system that in OSX resolume runs smoother than in a Windows based system. A think that resolume in Windows is a bit buggy, which I can see the same "bugginess" in OSX.

[najrock]

I use Arena both on osx and windows 7. as long as you stick to the golden rules (all dxv, no audio) you will have a show without crashing 80% of the time on both os's...

the problems begin when you overload your decks with more than 150 clips ( ram gets eaten up... resolume throws up on itself and dies) and mix codecs...

people say to partition a drive and have one devoted to resolume because of permission issues... this seems like a good idea... i dont personally do it and have never really had a problem...

my problems have mainly been with receiving osc (fixed) recieving mtc sync ( stupid idea anyway) and attempting to use audio in a session to get perfect cue points without rendering 5 versions of every song ( a failed venture for many reasons the most glaring one being the seemingly meaningless numbers that resolume has on the timeline slider where you would expect a timecode stamp or seconds/frame tick)

overall resolume is reliable and its easy to create a great show fast... there are a couple cool effects and the dxv codec lets me spit out 1920x1080 content at an acceptable frame rate with ease carrying only a backpack from gig to gig...

if you are in a mission critical situation and need reliability/backups/timecode/trianglemappings whatever... use something else...

if you are a vj stumbling around after a EDM dj scrambling to get a pixelmap dialed live in front of a festival crowd ten minutes before your headline set... resolume is hard to beat

[hive8]

I agree with most everything said. Resolume is fast. I did many gigs where there are last min changes, new content. Logo animation made on the spot, Resolume is hard to beat to do things like that quick. To map things quickly on a LED screen and the tech didn't map it right in the processor is not problem too.

Windows or OSX no problem. Audio behaves strange sometimes after you figure out whats wrong, only use uncompressed wav files embedded in the the DXV MOV file.

1920 x 1080 no problem on windows, use a Samsung 840 EVO 500GB with the magician enabled, over 600MB/sec reads and writes. So multiple streams no prob.

Just watch out with to many PNGs (large files) or clips then your RAM on the GFX will fill and Resolume crash.

Yeah OSC is a bit strange too, resolume does crash every so often when OSC is enabled, without it I have almost no crashes.