Workstation Configurations - Listings

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Please list your hardware configurations here for workstations used in your RED workflows. Format should be as follows. Please, no discussion or questions about these configurations in this list. Take all discussions to the discussion thread: http://reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=46968


Hardware Configuration:

Primary OS and Software used:

Pros:

Cons:

Misc Notes:

[Ian Laurie]

Hardware Configuration:
2.66 ghz 8 core 2008 Mac Pro 8GB's ram, rocket card

Primary OS: OSX Snow Leopard

Pros: works great, runs great, likes RED

Cons: Lugging that behemoth of a box around. It really gets to be a pain when your hauling it around for DIT work. Not the easiest thing to get in a cart either.

Misc Notes: I think shortly I will be giving an Xserve a try. So much better for hauling around and takes the abuse off my Mac Pro

[nima]

We use this configuration for 2k and 4k editing and grading:

Hardware configuration: Boxx i5, 24gb ram - Dulce raid drives
Primary OS: Windows, Premiere CS4, Assimilate Scratch Cine
Pros: very efficient delivery of multi formats,plenty of monitoring options and raid configurations.
Cons: not so cheap, right?

[Travis MacRitchie]

2.93 Ghz 8 Core Mac Pro, 16GB Ram
G-Speed 6 TB usable Raid Config
Red Rocket
Decklink HD-SDI
30" Apple Cinema Display
17" Panasonic BTLH-1700W Monitor
50" Viera Plasma Display
Euphonic MC Color Control Surface


Mac OS 10.6.4
Final Cut Suite
Adobe CS5, Premiere Pro, After Effects

Color runs with the decklink card
Redcine runs with RR
both output displays mirror on the 17" panny and 50" plasma at the same time.

Pros: Fast when everything is working, the 50" plasma looks awesome in the dark studio and impresses clients

Cons: Lack of tight integration between Color and native .R3d files. RedCine crashes, bugs with redrocket on occasion

[Curran Giddens]

Mac Pro (2008) 2 x 3.2GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
16GB RAM
nVidia GeForce GT 120
Blackmagic Decklink HD Extreme 3D
4 x Hitachi 2TB Enterprise Series
1 x 120GB Mercury Extreme Pro SSD 2.5" SATA boot drive
1 x SATA media transport drive
MaxConnect internal HD mounting solution
RED Rocket
RED Rocket Breakout Box
HP Dreamcolor 24" 10-bit LCD
Apple 30" Cinema Display
Wacom Intuos4 Large
Tangent Devices Wave


*For DaVinci I just need to add a nVidia Quadro FX4000 when released in Oct.


SOFTWARE

Mac OS 10.6.4
DaVinci Resolve 7
Adobe CS5
ABSoft Neat Video for AE
R3D Data Manager
Clipfinder 2.5
Apple Logic 9



It is a bit of a hassle to get the SATA cables plugged into the motherboard. I had to loosen the screw (circled) holding the fan in place and pull up on the entire fan assembly in order to get the cables plugged in. Getting the cables through to the optical drive bay was also a tight fit. But it was all well worth the effort.







AJA disk test on my 4 x 2TB internal software RAID 0.

[jake blackstone]

Mac Pro (2008) 2 x 3.2GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
8GB RAM
ATI Radeon HD 2600
4 x Hitachi 2TB Enterprise Series
2 x Seagate Barracuda 750GB Enterprise Series
MaxConnect internal HD mounting solution
RED Rocket
RED Rocket Breakout Box
HP Dreamcolor 24" 10-bit LCD
Apple 30" Cinema Display
Wacom Intuos 9x12


Mac OS 10.6.4




It is a bit of a hassle to get the SATA cables plugged into the motherboard. I had to loosen the screw (circled) holding the fan in place and pull up on the entire fan assembly in order to get the cables plugged in. Getting the cables through to the optical drive bay was also a tight fit. But it was all well worth the effort.






For DaVinci will I need to add 4GB more RAM, nVidia Quadro 4000, nVidia GT120, Blackmagic Decklink HD 3D, and Tangent Wave.







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Thanks for great pictures and info. I think I'm going to do the same thing, if I to decide to use the Red Rocket and forgo FC controller.
My understanding, that Resolve "likes" either 6 or 12 GB of RAM, but I'm not 100% sure on that.
Unfortunately, although, Resolve on 2008 Mac will work, it will no be capable of real time playback without Red Rocket. Only 2009 and up...
But seeing, that you've got Red Rocket, you good to go.

[Peter Chamberlain]

Its actually the Nehalem architecture in the 2009 MacPro that prefers the system ram in lots of 3. For those trying 2008 MacPro, 8GB is likely to be better.
Peter

[nima]

We use this configuration for 2k and 4k editing and grading:

Hardware configuration: Boxx i5, 24gb ram - Dulce raid drives
Primary OS: Windows, Premiere CS4, Assimilate Scratch Cine
Pros: very efficient delivery of multi formats,plenty of monitoring options and raid configurations.
Cons: not so cheap, right?

forgot to mention a red rocket to speed up the process