Rocket vs. Resolve

[Rick Darge]

Just curious as to why someone would get a RedRocket now that Resolve is right around the corner?

http://www.blackmagic-design.com/davinci/resolve/

 

[Cüneyt Kaya]

rocket is a hardware accelerator.
resolve has another task.

 

[Cail Young]

Resolve isn't going to generate my DNxHD 36 1080p burnt-in offlines any faster...

 

[Curran Giddens]

Resolve needs to support Red Rocket for full debayer all the time.

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

The BlackMagic / DaVinci guys are working to support RED Rocket. It's one of many things on their list.

 

[Jonas Rejman]

Are you sure about that?

On the London Roadshow, there was no word about a possible RR support. Neither MAC nor Linux.
The RR does not fit into a mac, if you have 2x GFX, 1x BM HD and RAIDcard.

Their solution for 4K realtime debayer seemed to be the additional CPU units for 20K, on top of the 80K of the linux version.

Resolve+RR would be sweet, but I wonder if this can happen on the current mac pros anytime soon.

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

It's been commented at NAB and since that they are looking to incorporate Rocket support. And you are correct, the logistics of placing the Rocket into a Mac with two GPUs and a black magic card, etc.. are a real problem. That leaves us going the PCIe expander route and that isn't the most elegant or reliable solution.

The odds of it happing on the current Mac Pro systems are pretty much nil. Not unless we see more powerful GPU offerings that would entice BMD to drop the dual GPU requirement for GPU acceleration.

 

[Curran Giddens]

The odds of it happing on the current Mac Pro systems are pretty much nil. Not unless we see more powerful GPU offerings that would entice BMD to drop the dual GPU requirement for GPU acceleration.

I'm hoping that with Red Rocket doing a bunch of the heavy lifting and support for the nVidia GTX 480 we can get by with one GPU.

GTX480 rumors
http://www.macrumors.com/2010/07/04...-gtx-480-drivers-hint-at-desktop-mac-updates/