5k wide screen, FULL res playback with RR possible?

[Will Keir]

Before I buy this dino of a card, I'd like to see if it can do what I am asking.

In RCX Pro:

Can the RR play 5k widescreen footage in real time without a preview buffer? Can I make color changes and immediately watch the footage without waiting for a preview bar?

 

[Will Keir]

RR users! Where are you when I need you?

 

[Colin Hubick]

No, about the only thing that the Red Rocket can play back in realtime is 4k. Even then, on longer clips the buffer runs out.

 

[Jon Jones]

Will, there's no easy answer to this because it all depends on your system specs. If you have a couple of 8 core processors, and 128GB of RAM then I would say yes, it will play it back immediately with no qualms, lol. Also if you have a fast RAID array, you'll be able to play it at 1/4 res no problem even with a Mac Book Pro.

Before I buy this dino of a card, I'd like to see if it can do what I am asking.

In RCX Pro:

Can the RR play 5k widescreen footage in real time without a preview buffer? Can I make color changes and immediately watch the footage without waiting for a preview bar?

 

[Jon Jones]

We did a short film at 5kWS, 3:1 compression, which I produced, but also DIT'd it as well. I had my 8TB raid on set with thunderbolt connection, and my daughters MBP with 8GB of RAM. I was able to play it back without the RR at 1/4 res no problem, I added color and it was all good. Then again at the production house, in one of our editing suites we have a Mac Pro, hooked up to the Server RAID, and 5k doesn't like us unless we enable the RR. If it was me, I would buy then RR again for sure. It is a giant help, and our editors would kill us if we made them cut 5kff at 3:1 compression without the RR.