Question for RED about Redcine...

[Maz Mawlawi]

I have a question that may or may have not been asked before...Can you please explain to us why does Redcine rely on the video card to output? I can understand it needs a good video card to playback…but why for output? Is Redcine using an Open GL renderer for output? Does it not have its own renderer???
I am not sure I understand why it’s so picky and buggy when it comes to video cards? From all other software I have ever used, ranging from Softimage, AE, Premiere, Shake etc…. all of them have their own renderer thus they are way more compatible and can output anything no matter what your card is. Again, I understand the need for a good, compatible OpenGL video card for playback purposes….but I am confused on the need for output… I have done some tests with other apps (3DSMax and AE) and I can output any format on PCs that are 5 yrs old with a crappy video card…. Why can’t Redcine output successfully on a brand new PC??

 

[Andrew M.]

Yes, it uses OpenGL on your card and card GPU to speedup the processing, leaving the computer CPU to do the disk I/O and other tasks.
This is the way to go for the future. Graphic card is optimized to do one thing and CPU is optimized to do the other things.

 

[Kevin Halverson]

My understanding is that the application is optimized around a specific CPU and GPU hardware combination. Looking at the size of the executable, it is clearly an extremely compact bit of code. Considering the complex tasks, any other approach would have yielded a much slower running application.

Kevin Halverson

 

[Maz Mawlawi]

Thanks guys...hopefully they can clean up their code and make it more compatible

 

[Obin Olson]

you don't really k ow what your talking about unless you have seen the redcine code firsthand.

 

[Marcus Struzina]

Since Redcine is free, I'm thinking of the price of the right graphics card as the cost of the software, still cheap for what its doing.

 

[CJ Roy]

Since Redcine is free, I'm thinking of the price of the right graphics card as the cost of the software, still cheap for what its doing.

For pretty much requiring dedicated hardware, it's not cheap.