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Ballpark rental rate on an 8 core mac pro with red rocket?

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I'm curious what a day rate on this setup would be. Just the tower and the rocket.
Thanks in advance:)
 
Depends upon your market ... at Chater Camera in SF, it's going for $375/day for card and tower only. That's before 30" Cine display, UPS, external monitoring, oh - and discounts ; )
 
jayfarrington said:
Depends upon your market ... at Chater Camera in SF, it's going for $375/day for card and tower only. That's before 30" Cine display, UPS, external monitoring, oh - and discounts ; )
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Wow that seems cheap. I paid around 5,000 for my tower, plus the rocket which is another 5,000. So 10,000 worth of hardware for $375 a day.
 
RED DIT San Francisco

RED DIT San Francisco

Perhaps it is just a San Francisco thing, we charge the same for our one in the South Bay, but only if it goes out with an editor/DIT... or an hourly rate to just turn up on location and run dailies or edit output to file, tape or DVDs.

Chris.
http://www.RED_DIT_San_Francisco.com

jayfarrington said:
Depends upon your market ... at Chater Camera in SF, it's going for $375/day for card and tower only. That's before 30" Cine display, UPS, external monitoring, oh - and discounts ; )
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But how many days are you charged for each week with say, a 12 week rental?

What is the turn over point where it is best to buy?
(Monitor included - $5,000 - 12 series Pana with HD-SDI in)

Let's call it $17,500.- total, to include a few additional tools.

Keep in mind you can later liquidate the investment for a nice pile of cash.
 
Noah Kadner said:
Ya think? At that rate you pay it off in 26 rental days. That's not bad at all...

Noah
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In that respect it doesn't seem so bad... but then on the other hand as a rough comparison (for instance) the EX3 sells for about $8,400 bucks at Abel and rents for $500 per day. Now I realize comparing camera rental rates to post gear rental rates isn't an ideal comparison but I think it's fairly valid.

Seems like the $450-$550 range for an 8 core mac pro and red rocket is fair.
 
Well also look at what's included- tower and card. That's just the tip of the iceberg if you really want to go for it. Monitors, control surfaces, audio gear, etc. You charge whatever you can get but to try and correlate a computer rental with say a camera is probably pointless. Different market, different usage, different demand, etc.

Noah
 
a rocket card can be rented here for 100 € a day.

usually the clients have macpro`s anyway.

and if someones rents, its for commercials etc-

feature film clients just buy a rocket...and if needed sell them afterwards again...maybe losing 1000 dollars, which is still cheaper then renting for a months or two.

and most clients are not so horny to get a first light to their dailies...its an unnessary add to the post budget...(bugdets are here much tighter!)...complete CC is done at the end.

edit: but on Multicam/multimillion dollar shoots the DIT has a pretty significant role and needs heavy iron...which will be rented by the production...and then it can cost with the DIT included up to 1500 USD a day.
 
Cüneyt Kaya said:
a rocket card can be rented here for 100 € a day.

usually the clients have macpro`s anyway.

and if someones rents, its for commercials etc-

feature film clients just buy a rocket...and if needed sell them afterwards again...maybe losing 1000 dollars, which is still cheaper then renting for a months or two.

and most clients are not so horny to get a first light to their dailies...its an unnessary add to the post budget...(bugdets are here much tighter!)...complete CC is done at the end.

edit: but on Multicam/multimillion dollar shoots the DIT has a pretty significant role and needs heavy iron...which will be rented by the production...and then it can cost with the DIT included up to 1500 USD a day.
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that makes complete sense about 120 us for just the rocket so 120 per every $5000 worth of gear and roberto said 17500 cost so 350-375 depending on memory ie...internal raid say even 400...

well thats solved
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jayfarrington said:
Depends upon your market ... at Chater Camera in SF, it's going for $375/day for card and tower only. That's before 30" Cine display, UPS, external monitoring, oh - and discounts ; )
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Very good friend of Chater Camera here in SF Bay Area (hi Jay!) - they totally rock!

My "owner / operator" 8-Core MacPro w/ Rocket + 23" Apple HD Cinema Display and UPS has been fetching $500 / day or $1,500 / wk.

With the addition of extras like AJA Kona LHi, SCSI-3 or SAS RAID-5 array, LTO-4 Drive, Tangent Wave, 2nd 23" Apple HD Cinema Display, and TR-04 Cart, the rig has garnered up to $900 / day or $2,700 / wk.

I consider these prices to be relatively "low," considering that Media Distributors' turnkey rigs can rent for ~$1,500 / day depending on the RAID storage config and monitoring.

Chater Camera's setup is a steal, comparatively, and you won't find better service and support anywhere!

- Jordan
 
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