DaVinci Resolve and MacOS

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This thread is for future users who want to use AYON with Resolve on MacOS. :apple:

Here are the steps I went through wen trying to make it work:

Setup

  • DaVinci Resolve: 19.0.2 Studio
  • ayon-resolve: 0.3.0
  • Python: 3.10.15

Prerequisites

First of all you need to change the Resolve Path in the Applications Settings:

ayon+settings://applications/applications/resolve/variants/0/executables/darwin

There’s no specific Resolve version, use the following path:

/Applications/DaVinci Resolve/DaVinci Resolve.app

Python installation

Homebrew (failed)

I first thought of installing the proper Python version with Homebrew because it’s easy to manage packages.

$ brew install python@3.10

It’s now Installed in /usr/local/Cellar/python@3.10/3.10.15 (on MacOS Silicon so the brew prefix is /usr/local, check brew --prefix).

But after putting this path in ayon+settings://applications/applications/resolve/environment as explained here didn’t work because Python3 wasn’t recognized:

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Python official installer (worked)

This time I used the official Python installer for 3.10.11 which installed Python here:

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10

Then I went installing the required dependencies:

$ cd /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/bin
$ ./python3 -m pip install PySide2 OpenTimelineIO

Then I launched Resolve through the Launcher and it worked.

If you have any issues, let us know in this thread below! :innocent:

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Hey @johhnry,

What do you have for ayon+settings://applications/applications/resolve/environment ? I’ve done all of these steps (and Python is working in Resolve without the launcher), but it won’t work launched from AYON Launcher. For my sanity, I can’t try another path variation…

Appreciate it!

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Hi @keithmanlove,

In ayon+settings://applications/applications/resolve/environment, I have:

{
    "RESOLVE_UTILITY_SCRIPTS_SOURCE_DIR": [],
    "RESOLVE_PYTHON3_HOME": {
        "windows": ...,
        "darwin": "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10",
        "linux": ...
    }
}
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@johhnry

That’s what I figured! Just needed to check there wasn’t some “MAKE_IT_ACTUALLY_WORK”: TRUE variable I was missing. Thanks!

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