Scarlet and REDRocket card?

[Bastiaan Maat]

could Thunderbolt be a viable, cheaper solution in the near future?... sorry just thinkin out loud.
The RED ROCKET does make life a hell of a lot more pleasant right now if you're working with 5k epic footage. And Premiere 5.5 works oh so well with it!

Thunderbolt is an technique invented for high speed interaction between all sort of things and real close to way computer components interact nowadays. This does not provide processing power that is needed for rendering video.

I personally would go for a fast multi core processor (the i7 atm) and a huge Nvidia video card, most bang for the buck in my point of view if you want to keep cost low.

Then again the Red Rocket is purpose build for the job.

 

[Jonathan LeDuc]

Thunderbolt is an technique invented for high speed interaction between all sort of things and real close to way computer components interact nowadays. This does not provide processing power that is needed for rendering video.

I personally would go for a fast multi core processor (the i7 atm) and a huge Nvidia video card, most bang for the buck in my point of view if you want to keep cost low.

Then again the Red Rocket is purpose build for the job.

I suspect the question was whether thunderbolt was viable as an interface for red rocket, not whether thunderbolt itself would somehow provide processing power. Thunderbolt may be at least one answer for someone on an imac, as there are vendors looking to create external PCI Express slots utilizing thunderbolt. Whether or not there is ever a native thunderbolt redrocket probably depends more on its success as an interface than anything else.

 

[Rudy Lehfeldt-Ehlinger]

I imagine with PCIe expander boxes that sonnettech are going to make that it would become a very viable solution for imac and MBP users, should be slightly faster and more reliable then the Express34 slot cards, who ever invented the locking mechanism for those should of been fired.

 

[Frazier Nivens]

Time = Money

If you make a living with the camera and deliver footage, its a must have.

Yes, ditto to the above, without it don't buy the camera...a must have...you'll see...

 

[Rajesh Puttaswamaiah]

Thanks Jeffrey, great post. Your case scenario is very accurate in my case, and Im sure quite likely so for many others.

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Lliam

I am with you guys on this.