SUPPORTED PLATFORMS:
- Windows 10 64 bit, Windows 11 64 bit. Nvidia GPU required.
- 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/M2/M3...): Not fully supported yet, although it is working for an increasing number of projects. 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, CentOS 7.8 64bit (Click here for Linux installation specific instructions). Other Linux distros should work well, but those are the ones used by our developers and our support team, so they are the supported ones). 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 (AWS and others): 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.
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)
For the particular case of unattended servers or virtual machines with no monitor connected, please note that some types of virtual desktops or remote desktop connections do not provide those requirements (or they provide them but they destroy the graphic context on user disconnections & reconnections), while other virtual desktop and remote desktop software will work just fine.
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