Red Rocket setup

[Warwick Brown]

This is an old question i am sure but if i am setting a rocket system to use for myself and dont want to buy a brand new 12 core or 8 core mac what are my options and would a dual quad core x86 intel mac be sufficient?
Cheers
wazza

 

[jimhare]

Hey Wazza, I used my Rocket on a first gen Mac Pro (quad core) for a couple of years and it worked great. Now I have it on a Hex Core and it's brilliant. The answer is yes, works great on any Mac Pro, but obviously the faster the better.

 

[Warwick Brown]

JIm

Thanks for the help,have been using my imac to transcode through redcine and it has worked extremely well for me but am wanting an affordable system to take some away the over night wait for a job to go through.
cheers
wazza

 

[jimhare]

Yeah, I used to have 2 Mac Pros going 24-hours a day to prepare footage. Now I can run several hours through in an afternoon! Couldn't live without it.

 

[Tom Gleeson]

Wazza,

I run an older intel dual quad core intel machine and it does an adequate job. Rushes transcodes take about twice real time and RD3 files play real time in RedcineX. Hang in there as new Mac Pros are due very soon and second hand values of towers should drop.

 

[Warwick Brown]

Wazza,

I run an older intel dual quad core intel machine and it does an adequate job. Rushes transcodes take about twice real time and RD3 files play real time in RedcineX. Hang in there as new Mac Pros are due very soon and second hand values of towers should drop.

Tom

Thanks for that,so a quad will only run at 1/2 real time, sounds like spending the money on a new 8/12 core is really the only way then to get true real time transcoding as well as play back. I do pretty much all the transcoding of my jobs now and deliver the next day but shoot a couple of days, and the files back up pretty quickly,anyway Tom hope all is well it's been ages maybe catch you at SMPTE next week.
cheers
warwick