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Black Magic DeckLink 4k Extreme to replace Red Rocket?

Just to clarify, the BMD range of video I/O cards work in conjunction with DaVinci Resolve and many other applications. It's these applications and in some cases the Red Rocket card that decompresses and debayers the r3d images. Resolve can do this in CPU using REDs great SDK or with the Rocket if you have one, or more of them. Once decompressed and debayered the application has RGB pixel data that can be manipulated, in Resolve that includes grading and resizing etc, and then sent to the video I/O card like the 4K card to output to a 4K projector/monitor. If you are just playing r3d files then the Rocket may be all you need. Configuring your system to manage and manipulate 4K RGB pixel data is quite different to using a Rocket to play r3ds to a monitor so its important to define what you are trying to achieve before you decide what hardware and software you need to do that.
Peter
 
No mention of RED support on the BlackMagic website. The Card has some processing ability, like up rezing, but since R3D is different beast.Not sure it will help in any significant way. Nice card though so if you can use some of those features elsewhere, not a bad value. Although there is only so much room in computers for these cards.
 
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