SUPPORTED PLATFORMS:
- Windows 10 64 bit, Windows 11 64 bit. Nvidia GPU required. Intel or AMD x86 64 required (ARM is not supported)
- macOS: Sonoma, Monterey, Big Sur, Catalina, High Sierra and Mojave (Older MacOS versions are unsupported and will not work. Regarding newer (latest) MacOS versions they may work well, but we do not have enough feedback to confirm full stability so they do not appear here yet).
- Mac Intel models: Requires a discrete GPU from AMD
- Mac ARM models (M1 to M4): Not fully optiimzed yet, although it is working for an increasing number of projects. Full support for these platforms is currently work in progress, we are actively developing it but it is not finished. If you want to try Mistika on this platform we recommend to test it with the trial version before purchasing.
- Linux : Rocky 9.3 64bit (Click here for Linux installation specific instructions). Other Linux distros should work well, but that is the one currently in use by our developers and our support team, so it is the supported one).
Mistika Workflows on Linux requires an NVIDIA GPU (any model from Pascal generation or later), and there must be a graphics session running with the NVIDIA propietary driver.
- Virtual machines and headless servers: Many customers have reported good success running Mistika Workflows on virtual machines. However all virtual environments are different to each other so we can not offer official warranty or support for them, although we will always try to help. Note that running Mistika Workflows in a virtual machine requires an NVIDIA GPU and the NVIDIA propietary driver running providing graphic contexts for Cuda, OpenGL and OpenCL, similar to physical system.
In the particular case of Windows VMs (or servers) with no physical monitors connected, note that most "remote desktop" applications (RDC, Teamviewer, etc) will use virtual monitors that are destroyed on reconnections, potentially crashing Mistika Workflows software.
HARDWARE CONSIDERATIONS FOR IMAGE PROCESSING AND TRANSCODING:
Mistika Workflows does not work in text only mode servers. On linux and windows it requires an NVIDIA GPU installed and an active graphics context (Cuda + OpenCL + OpenGL)
A good part of the Mistika Workflows processing is made in the GPU: Transcoding some image formats, using display filters, resolution changes, colour transformations, effects, compositing, etc. For that reason having a modern GPU is highly recommended, but it does not need to be high end, for example a small GeForce is normally enough for good performance on Windows and Linux.
If you need to decode R3D or Arri files or to encode h264 or h265/HEVC it is recommended to use a modern NVidia board, as only that brand is supported in Mistika to decode R3D and encode H264/h256 using the GPU, which is much faster than the CPU mode.
The rest of compressed codecs are purely based on CPU and can take advantage of as many CPU cores as available. Among others: Apple ProRes, EXR compressed, J2K, MXF compressed, etc.
Uncompressed codecs (DPX, EXR uncompressed, Tiff16, Mistika JS, ...) do not require significant GPU or CPU processing, but logically they are very sensitive to storage access speed. Using NVMe drives or a high speed disk array is higly recommended for those formats.
RAM: It depends on the resolution and complexity of the workflows, and also in the number of cores (more RAM required for processing more frames in parallel).
Minimum RAM: 8GB
Recommended RAM: 16GB (or more for complex cases, like when using very high resolutions or for systems with many CPU cores)
More details about hardware recommendations here:
https://support.sgo.es/a/solutions/articles/1000317688
SOFTWARE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN WINDOWS, MAC, AND LINUX
Differences for 3rd party products:
- After Effects node: Windows and macOS only. (there is no After Effects for Linux...)
- Pulsar node (QC). Windows only.
- EditReady node (transcoder): macOS only
- NVIDIA H264 / NVIDIA H265 / NVIDIA CUDA decoder for RED R3D: Windows and Linux only (we suggest EditReady for mac as an alternative)
- Topaz node (AI plugins): macOS & Windows only
- Youlean Loudness Meter: macOS & Windows only
Max. render resolution:
- Windows & Linux: 32K
- macOS: 16K