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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

red camera useless?

I'm optimistic that its not too far off before it becomes a viable option (for the whole process).
 
im.thatoneguy said:
The problem with Macbook pros is I've had some color consistancy issues on apple laptops. The non-macpro version is absolutely useless color wise even by laptop standards.

The drivers are still kind of iffy for 3D and it's an ATI card instead of NVIDIA.

If your primary machine is XP a Macbook pro is an inferior XP machine imho.
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If you want XP you should definately be running it on an intel machine, can't say that, a windows machine ? anyway, not Apple. Gavin, I'm sure your face is on a poster on the wall at Apple...shoot on sight LOL
Aloha
-A
 
xstimux said:
iF i cant get to the footage does that mean RED is useless? I think so. Red is not a real workable production camera if these silly post hurdles are'nt worked out.

I am having major issues with Redcine frozen frame issue. I just got a new mac pro 8-core and I am trying to export but I am getting freeze frames right from the beginning. Absolutely nothing usable. Even with TIFF export. Before with my older mac pro I would at least get a few minutes of usable material before it froze the shot. But now its frozen from the very beginning. Any ideas?
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Wow I just stumbled on this thread. If you have a Mac have you tried the QT reference files in Final Cut Pro it works great for me. I know I will read through all of these other threads and see a lot of the same comments.

Honestly I have had happy customers showing people the 2k QT Proxies in Final Cut Pro and have had no unhappy customers. Now I will go on and read all of the pages of agnst!

Brian Ferguson - BriFerg
 
Andrew said:
And if you could read this
http://www.reduser.net/forum/showpost.php?p=145512&postcount=45

and this
http://www.reduser.net/forum/showpost.php?p=145897&postcount=46

I would appreciate.
Could you be so kind and find out what laptop RED QC is using to test REDCINE XP version please.
I can’t find any laptop that runs with REDCINE on XP

Andrew
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I have been running REDCINE on XP on my laptop successfully for months now. Here's a couple of cherry-picked lines from my most recent logfile, and you can see what kind of machine I'm running:

Lucas said:
: WIN32 Version 5.01 (Build: 2600 - Service Pack 2)
: Dual: Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2600 @ 2.16GHz
: FPU : Precision 53 bits
: Timer frequency : 3.58 MHz
: Timer resolution: 1 ms
: Physical memory : 2047 Mb
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Lucas said:
: Display Device: NVIDIA Quadro FX 2500M
: Resolution : 1920x1200
: Frequency : 60.0 Hz.
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Lucas said:
: NVidia Api : NVidia Complete Version 1.10
: Driver : 156.79 (R156_00-8558)
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I can playback, load hundreds of clips, and render with no issues. Quicktime, DPX, whatever... no problems. And I don't even keep this machine very clean. It's my email machine, along with having the CS2 suite, a bunch of system hacks, extensive Registry screwing-around-with, Office2003, iTunes, Skype, Trillian, etc, etc.

Lucas
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ASSIMILATE, Inc.
LA, CA, USA
(currently in Tokyo)
 
Lucas, thanks for logs!
I also got the config of RED test machine from RED yesterday.
Now I see where the problem is, REDCINE build 82 is expecting NVIDIA Quadro
It is your config and RED test machine config and few others that reported that they can output 4K to QT H.264 2K
NVIDIA 8800 or 8700 will crash codec or produce out of memory error. I have GT8700M on my Dell XPS M1730. (see log below)
I am close to declare that REDCINE XP will not run on any XP laptop out there without NVIDIA Quadro.
Yet it will run on MacBook .
Anybody that will point me to the NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT based laptop running XP (not Mac) and able to produce 2K QT H.264 from 4K R3D using REDCINE-b82 deserves good bottle of whisky delivered to his doorsteps........:-)

Andrew

15:30:52.08 INFO : ---------------------------------------------------
: OpenGL Context setup:
: -------------------------------------------------
: OpenGL : 2.1.1 (GeForce 8700M GT/PCI/SSE2)
: GLEW : 1.5.0
: Display mode : 3
: Swap Control : Swap on v-sync
: Swap Groups : Supported
: Gamma tables : NVidia cpl. (2: DA, DB)
: Pixel format : Available
: Pixel buffers : Available
: FP buffers : Available
: Frame buffers : Available
: FP textures : Available
: Fragment Program : Available
: Occlusion Query : Available
: ARB Shading L1.0 : Version 1.20 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
: ARB Shading Obj. : Available
: -------------------------------------------------
: NVidia Api : NVidia Complete Version 1.10
: Driver : 156.69 (R156_67-8534)
: Nr. of GPU's : 2
: Framebuffer size : 256.00 Mb
: -------------------------------------------------
15:30:52.08 INFO : ---------------------------------------------------
: PB: Setup 2 readback buffers, 16.00 MB
15:30:52.08 INFO : ---------------------------------------------------
: OpenGL Framebuffer configuration
: -------------------------------------------------
: Framebuffer : 1920x1200 (Double)
: R,G,B,A : 8,8,8,8
: Depth,Stencil : 24 8
: Accumulation : 16
: ---------------------------------------------
: Blend Color : Supported
: Separate Alpha: Supported
: Blend Min/Max : Supported
: ---------------------------------------------
: Texture info : 8192x8192 (Max. RGBA8)
: Texture rect : 8192
: Texture PBO : 36 MB (1 buffers)
: Texture float : Available
: Packed floats : Available
: Multitexture : 16 units
: Non Power Of 2: Supported
: Mipmap gen. : Supported
: Texture clamp : EDGE, BORDER
: Render to tex.: Supported
15:30:52.08 INFO : --------------------------------
 
Lucas, could you be so kind and check if you can take 4K Jim’s race track clip A003_C007_071105_001.R3D
from here:
http://www.redrelay.net/owners/0010/ (Jarred Land) post

and save it (output it) to QT H.264 2K 2048X1024 .mov file at 50Mbit/sec

Dell XPS M1730 is faster that MacBook Pro I think:

Dual core 2.8GHz
Dual 256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8700M GS
Drives 7400 RAID 0 or RAID 1

First laptop I see that supports RAID 0 or RAID 1 right in the laptop, the same config and performance as REDDRIVE

http://www.dell.com/content/products...en&s=dhs&cs=19

I can play QT .mov files at 50MB/sec at 24fps

What do you think?

Andrew
 
If your Red feels useless, contact me and I will relieve you of your burden!
Anytime.
the more people feeling this way, the more helpfull I will be!
I could even pick up the transportation cost, if you're so inclined.

Gunleik
 
It is xstimux second post so he needs to get up to the speed here.....
He needs to use more of the search button.
 
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