Greyed options in Redcine_X

[David Barlow]

Here's a thing. I have been using Redcine_X version 256 for some time with no problems but found that the new version 340 allows the export of 1080 29.97 MXF files. So I downloaded it and all seemed well except that the sharpen and denoise sliders were greyed out as was the DRX slider. I only use the sharpen so I thought I would just revert to version 256 where it has worked for months and bang the same sliders are greyed out.

I cannot get them to work now in any version of Redcine-X. What am I missing here? I am running Snow Leopard which was a recent upgrade I admit. Could this affect things somehow? Is there any way to completely remove any traces of Redcine and start again?

Any advice would be much appreciated.

David

 

[Stephen Strangways]

If you are using a RED ROCKET card and it is enabled in REDCINE-X, sharpen, denoise, and DRX do not function, as the RED ROCKET card does not support them.

 

[Mike Prevette]

There was a bug in an earlier version (not sure if it was 256) where the sliders stayed live if you had a rocket, but they had no effect on the image. I remember versione prior greying them out, and certainly later versions are the same.

 

[David Barlow]

Thanks guys,

That explains it. I fitted my Red Rocket card at the weekend. I think the speed increase is worth the loss of those functions.

Thanks again

David

 

[David Barlow]

One further question. Is it likely that the Red Rocket will ever be able to support the sharpen function or the other greyed ones? I shoot a lot at 2K as I shoot at higher frame rates. A little bit of OLPF sharpening does help but transcoding without the Red Rocket takes forever. I only get transcode rates of one to two frames per second without the Rocket.

Anyone know?

David

 

[Cüneyt Kaya]

If you are using a RED ROCKET card and it is enabled in REDCINE-X, sharpen, denoise, and DRX do not function, as the RED ROCKET card does not support them.

why?
and will it be enabled sometime?

 

[Stephen Strangways]

Only RED knows for sure if the RED ROCKET card is physically capable of ever supporting those functions, but for what it's worth, sharpening of any sort is best left until the very end, done at your final output resolution. So, if you are outputting 1080, sharpen for that in Final Cut. If you also outputting 480 and lower resolutions for the web, you'll get the best possible results by scaling everything down and then sharpening at that output resolution.

You can try this experiment with any still image. Get an image of a pretty high resolution and sharpen it, then downscale it to at least half its original size. Keep that, go back to the original resolution, downscale it first then sharpen it. See the difference?