Mike Manus
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Hello, Red and FCP noobie here (Media Composer and DS editor), so I have some basic questions about building a system. Hopefully they're easy questions, but I couldn't find answers while lurking.
I am going to editing a feature shot on Red in 4K in July. I'm thinking I'll be transcoding to ProRes for offline, and using the original Red files for online color correction in Color to finish at 2k: basically workflow 2 in the Red Final Cut whitepaper.
We'll be getting a Mac Pro for this and debating the best configuration. While any decent Mac Pro should be good for the FCP offline, I'm concerned about Color. I figure we should get the new 8 core. Upgrading the default 2.26 processors to either 2.66 or 2.93 is pretty pricey. Is it worth it? Will it make much difference? Same question about going from 16GB RAM to 32GB. I doubt that would make much difference, but I wanted to check. Does Final Cut or Color even make use of 16GB RAM, let alone 32?
What about the graphics card? There's NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512MB or ATI Radeon HD 4870? Which is best for Color? Or is there a different card to get?
Do we need hard drives that are any faster than graids? I was originally thinking that would be fast enough since redcode's data rate is 36 MB/s. But if we decide to output uncompressed HD for final mastering, could a graid3 handle that with an esata card or extender cable? I know it's not supported but since it's only playback of a final already edited sequence, I'm thinking it could pull it off.
What output card for monitoring would we need? I have an Aja IO HD, but that wouldn't work with Color in HD. Do we even need one? If we have a monitor with DVI or HDMI, can we use the Mac Pro's graphics card output? If the monitor has component inputs or HDSDI, what are the best options there?
I know it's a lot of questions, but any help or opinions I could get would be great.
I am going to editing a feature shot on Red in 4K in July. I'm thinking I'll be transcoding to ProRes for offline, and using the original Red files for online color correction in Color to finish at 2k: basically workflow 2 in the Red Final Cut whitepaper.
We'll be getting a Mac Pro for this and debating the best configuration. While any decent Mac Pro should be good for the FCP offline, I'm concerned about Color. I figure we should get the new 8 core. Upgrading the default 2.26 processors to either 2.66 or 2.93 is pretty pricey. Is it worth it? Will it make much difference? Same question about going from 16GB RAM to 32GB. I doubt that would make much difference, but I wanted to check. Does Final Cut or Color even make use of 16GB RAM, let alone 32?
What about the graphics card? There's NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512MB or ATI Radeon HD 4870? Which is best for Color? Or is there a different card to get?
Do we need hard drives that are any faster than graids? I was originally thinking that would be fast enough since redcode's data rate is 36 MB/s. But if we decide to output uncompressed HD for final mastering, could a graid3 handle that with an esata card or extender cable? I know it's not supported but since it's only playback of a final already edited sequence, I'm thinking it could pull it off.
What output card for monitoring would we need? I have an Aja IO HD, but that wouldn't work with Color in HD. Do we even need one? If we have a monitor with DVI or HDMI, can we use the Mac Pro's graphics card output? If the monitor has component inputs or HDSDI, what are the best options there?
I know it's a lot of questions, but any help or opinions I could get would be great.
