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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 Rocket update...

Russ Campbell said:
I am looking for some idea of expected transcoding times to 1080p or 2K using a RR express expander solution and a Macbook Pro 2.8.

Russell
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I can run some tests on that as soon as I get mine back (everyone keeps borrowing it).
 
Deanan I'm wondering if there is any very approx timeline for rocketcine support on the pc side, like is it 6 months away, or are we talking more like weeks, just trying to decide on which way to go.

Thanks
Troy
 
Troy Smith said:
Deanan I'm wondering if there is any very approx timeline for rocketcine support on the pc side, like is it 6 months away, or are we talking more like weeks, just trying to decide on which way to go.

Thanks
Troy
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All the features that are in rocketcine are going into redcinex over the next few releases. As that happens, it'll be released for PC at the same time.
 
Tim Whitcomb said:
hmmm, well with sarcastic posts like this, you will most likely be dead before age 65 anyway.

Keep it real bro... nobody wants rushed to market software.
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I am keeping it real. We just happen to have production systems running on Linux and we're not interested in changing the whole studio over.

[glib remark]
Total box office gross on films I've worked on: > US$2 billion
That's about as real as it gets.
[/glib remark]

It's a serious question, a serious answer would be appreciated. The Rocket has been a $4500 paper weight since July, and the appearance of an SDK is about the only thing that's going to change that for those working in Linux environments.
 
Rainer Fritz said:
It's 09:30 am Wednesday.... still hard waiting for the update on redcine-x.... :)
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Lol go back to sleep and wake up in about 18 hours:)

You guys are gonna hafta ask Deanan and Rob really nicely if you want it earlier... Heh heh heh
 
I guess I'll see it when I wake up?
 
Deanan said:
Depends on how old you are :)
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That's not the serious answer I was looking for.

I realize you have a lot of irons in the fire, but from a post standpoint it would be very much appreciated if we could maintain the RAW workflow all the way though DI and that's going to require we have the ability to re-conform the editorial friendly format we're using (ProRes422) back on the grading station (Linux).

In order to make working there viable for the colorist you need enough performance to be able to keep them interactive.

Decoding the jpg2000.. er R3D data is the bottleneck there. Bandwidth isn't an issue (we can playback exr and dpx at rate) so we could convert the RAW data to exr or some other format that would retain all the data in the original files, but that means a LOT more disk space and I'd rather not add 20 more TB of array in the grading suite. Converting to a log format defeats the purpose as we're tossing bits.

The Rocket looks to be the solution to all this, but right now (without an SDK) it's like a really promising race car with no wheels.

Can we get a little more specific information on an ETA so we can do some production planning? I don't need to know when it's going to be delivered, but even knowing when it's NOT going to be delivered by would keep us from playing this guessing game.
 
JonathanF said:
That's not the serious answer I was looking for.

Can we get a little more specific information on an ETA so we can do some production planning? I don't need to know when it's going to be delivered, but even knowing when it's NOT going to be delivered by would keep us from playing this guessing game.
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A non sarcastic question would have gotten a better response...

No ETA yet. Driver/kernel variations between all the distros and versions make linux a much slower development processes.
 
JonathanF said:
That's not the serious answer I was looking for.

I realize you have a lot of irons in the fire, but from a post standpoint it would be very much appreciated if we could maintain the RAW workflow all the way though DI and that's going to require we have the ability to re-conform the editorial friendly format we're using (ProRes422) back on the grading station (Linux).

In order to make working there viable for the colorist you need enough performance to be able to keep them interactive.

Decoding the jpg2000.. er R3D data is the bottleneck there. Bandwidth isn't an issue (we can playback exr and dpx at rate) so we could convert the RAW data to exr or some other format that would retain all the data in the original files, but that means a LOT more disk space and I'd rather not add 20 more TB of array in the grading suite. Converting to a log format defeats the purpose as we're tossing bits.

The Rocket looks to be the solution to all this, but right now (without an SDK) it's like a really promising race car with no wheels.

Can we get a little more specific information on an ETA so we can do some production planning? I don't need to know when it's going to be delivered, but even knowing when it's NOT going to be delivered by would keep us from playing this guessing game.
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YEP, we are on the same boat here as far as our BASELIGHT suite. We got two red rocket cards in house on MACS, and would love to add a third Red Rocket to our Baselight.
 
Frank Cueto said:
YEP, we are on the same boat here as far as our BASELIGHT suite. We got two RED Rocket™ cards in house on MACS, and would love to add a third RED Rocket™ to our Baselight.
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toss me a paddle, I'm in the boat rowing aswell.
I have a Resolve just yearning to get a Rocket stuffed in there.

We are getting so much Red-stuff from around sweden that would benefit from it.

ah well, just have to paddle along for a while, we've come this far, would be a shame to stopp no :)

/carl
 
Deanan said:
No ETA yet. Driver/kernel variations between all the distros and versions make linux a much slower development processes.
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With that in mind, is there a distro that's compatible with the various common linux apps that would make you happy as a first distro? We've got Ubuntu 9.04 on the machines we use for grading, but Fedora would be fine as well. These boxes really only run one app so...

If targeting a single distro in the short term would make your life easier I'm all for it. Making the change on our end would be trivial compared to migrating these machines to another platform where we don't have any of our own tools built.
 
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