Red Rocket a MUST ??

[George D.]

I know this is going to seem like a stupid question to most, but humor me. I'm new at this.

To transfer, manipulate, "rough" edit, and copy, the digital data from a Scarlet 2/3 or a Red-One, do I absolutely have to have a Red Rocket card in my PC?

Is Red Rocket also required for Adobe CS5 to work properly?

*All I want to do with the data, once it's in the hard drive, is to copy certain scenes, put them together, reduce the quality, then transfer THAT to a DVD, to be used for reference ONLY. The original, high quality, footage, would, of course, stay in the hard drive for later use.

I am not, nor do I have any intentions, of being an editor. I will leave the REAL editing in the final production to professionals that KNOW what they are doing. What they have for their equipment is entirely up the them.

Thanks.

 

[Gunleik Groven]

It's not a neccesity. But as volume ramps up, you'll miss it. But then you can afford it too...

 

[Rainer Fritz]

cant't work without it anymore... think only on watching in realtime over HD-SDI and full debayer... same at transcoding...

 

[Kaku Ito]

It paid of with all of the time saved with a couple of jobs.

 

[Robert Frank]

But it's still not compatible with any NLE's yet, right?

 

[Sean Rawls]

For an offline workflow it is absolutely not needed. I couldn't live without one . . . but that's for online stuff.

If you have a decent machine and don't want to edit with proxies (and the client won't be in the room) try 1/4 debayer Prores LT for an offline option.

cheers

 

[MichaelP]

But it's still not compatible with any NLE's yet, right?

Media Composer 5 will support the Rocket Card for transcodes and renders within the application.

Michael

 

[CmunozS]

Media Composer 5 will support the Rocket Card for transcodes and renders within the application.

Michael

what about Final Cut Studio? will there be a new version of the software that supports Red Rocket? Anyone knows something?

 

[Cüneyt Kaya]

what about Final Cut Studio? will there be a new version of the software that supports RED Rocket™? Anyone knows something?

guess 1st imovie for the ipad has to be released

i hope for a new FCS and a new tower with 8 (or 12) storage slots and two more PCI slots.

 

[CmunozS]

guess 1st imovie for the ipad has to be released

i hope for a new FCS and a new tower with 8 (or 12) storage slots and two more PCI slots.

and 12 cores too!

 

[Jamie Metzger]

I've been doing transcodes for every RED job this year so far. It's seems to be the best way to go. If you transfer Full Debayer 1080P at ProRes 422/HQ/4444 you can finish using these files for web/broadcast...etc. They look great!