Minimum Spec?

[Stephen Webb]

What's the minimum spec for playing back shots in Redcine in real time? I'm using a 2.33GHz Macbook Pro with an ATI X1600 and even the 1/4 Res Medium setting won't play back at full speed. Or am I just doing something incredibly dumb?

 

[BASSAM MSSALATIE]

i think you need very powerfull giant Mac pro Tower .with at least 8 Gig of ram and very high speed HDDs .like Raptor with 10000 rpm ?

 

[Matthew Rogers]

How much RAM do you have? My new MacPro w/2GB RAM wasn't much faster than my old Dual 1.8 G5 until I added more RAM. Once I did that, it was night and day difference.

Matthew

 

[tj williams]

Why doesn't red publish a list of what laptops wiith what features/processors/memory etc are required for different levels of playback.... Why do I have to guess which of you guys is credible!!! This is getting very tiresome and I'm looking to NAB to expect some manuals that are more than a list of buttons... how about a RED approved work flow!!!

 

[Stephen Webb]

i think you need very powerfull giant Mac pro Tower .with at least 8 Gig of ram and very high speed HDDs .like Raptor with 10000 rpm ?

Really? Just to play back at 1/4 Res Medium? So how am I supposed to play back stuff on set?

 

[David Battistella]

I have asked this before and there seems to be reluctance to answer this question.

David

 

[CJ Roy]

Really? Just to play back at 1/4 Res Medium? So how am I supposed to play back stuff on set?

Right now, the best playback is by using the QT proxies. Unless you shoot 4k 16:9.

 

[Adam Glick]

Quote:
Originally Posted by BASSAM MSSALATIE View Post
i think you need very powerfull giant Mac pro Tower .with at least 8 Gig of ram and very high speed HDDs .like Raptor with 10000 rpm ?"


"Really? Just to play back at 1/4 Res Medium? So how am I supposed to play back stuff on set?"

You need about 30MB/s in disc read speed to play back .r3d or the lower-quality QT "proxies" -both are easily handled by most single 7200rpm SATA drives.

You should be able to playback 1/4 res (about 1K) at 24fps on modern "Core 2"-based intel laptops with the right graphics cards & drivers installed.

3GB would be my "suggested minimum" memory configuration. More than 4GB is nice to have but won't help with playback speed in Redcine (or apparently FCP).