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Evin Grant
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So I've had the Red cart for two years now and it's served me very well as a Jr. camera platform that I can easily stow in my SUV. Lately though I have been getting constant requests for RED Rocket systems on set, weather it be for transcoding or just to have a color accurate system to preview looks. The later is what was requested for the network TV show I'm about to start (can't tell details yet, don't ask) so I decided to pimp my cart...
Sorry for the crappy iPhone pic, I'll try to get some better pics once it's on stage.
Ok, so here's the deal, my friend John at 8 Ball Grip custom built the lid and the tower case for me according to my specs. I need to give a big shout to Brook Willard here for blazing the trail with his super cart. Both pieces are made of aluminum to match the cart and add rigidity/heat dissipation. The tower is mounted into the case on rubber shock absorbers and also has covers that screw on the front and back for shipping. The lid is designed to slip into the posts holes at the corners of the cart so the only modification actually done to the cart is a small connection for the 80lb shock that keeps the lid up.
Performance...
You'll notice form the photo there is only a tower and a UPS on the bottom, that is because with the introduction of 2TB drives it's now possible to have an 8TB (6TB useable) RAID 5 array inside the Macpro (2008) tower. This RAID using an ATTO 348 card delivers 350MB/s+, plenty of speed for writing 2k DPXs or multiple download streams.
Accuracy...
The lid contains two monitors, a 24" HP Dreamcolor and a 19" HP POS monitor mounted vertically for the GUI. The Dreamcolor and POS are connected to the computer via regular DVI for standard downloading and other normal operations, but when color accurate 10bit playback or look creation is required the dreamcolor can be switched to the HDMI input and fed a signal from a RED Rocket or other HD card through an AJA HI5 3G HD-SDI converter. Since both are HDMI 1.3 compliant you get a true 10bit image from your system. AFAIK this is the most color accurate system capable of being installed on a cart. If you swap the rocket for an AJA or BM HD card or add a PCI Expansion chassis you can also use this system with 3CP.
John and I are thinking of selling the lid and tower case and when my TV show is finished I may even do some custom system builds, if there is any interest. The lid and Mac pro tower case will probably be about the same price as the Red cart. Bear in mind that six 1/4" holes need to be drilled into the Macpro tower to mount the shock absorbers.
PM me if you think you might be interested in any of this stuff,
E.
Sorry for the crappy iPhone pic, I'll try to get some better pics once it's on stage.
Ok, so here's the deal, my friend John at 8 Ball Grip custom built the lid and the tower case for me according to my specs. I need to give a big shout to Brook Willard here for blazing the trail with his super cart. Both pieces are made of aluminum to match the cart and add rigidity/heat dissipation. The tower is mounted into the case on rubber shock absorbers and also has covers that screw on the front and back for shipping. The lid is designed to slip into the posts holes at the corners of the cart so the only modification actually done to the cart is a small connection for the 80lb shock that keeps the lid up.
Performance...
You'll notice form the photo there is only a tower and a UPS on the bottom, that is because with the introduction of 2TB drives it's now possible to have an 8TB (6TB useable) RAID 5 array inside the Macpro (2008) tower. This RAID using an ATTO 348 card delivers 350MB/s+, plenty of speed for writing 2k DPXs or multiple download streams.
Accuracy...
The lid contains two monitors, a 24" HP Dreamcolor and a 19" HP POS monitor mounted vertically for the GUI. The Dreamcolor and POS are connected to the computer via regular DVI for standard downloading and other normal operations, but when color accurate 10bit playback or look creation is required the dreamcolor can be switched to the HDMI input and fed a signal from a RED Rocket or other HD card through an AJA HI5 3G HD-SDI converter. Since both are HDMI 1.3 compliant you get a true 10bit image from your system. AFAIK this is the most color accurate system capable of being installed on a cart. If you swap the rocket for an AJA or BM HD card or add a PCI Expansion chassis you can also use this system with 3CP.
John and I are thinking of selling the lid and tower case and when my TV show is finished I may even do some custom system builds, if there is any interest. The lid and Mac pro tower case will probably be about the same price as the Red cart. Bear in mind that six 1/4" holes need to be drilled into the Macpro tower to mount the shock absorbers.
PM me if you think you might be interested in any of this stuff,
E.
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