• Avid Media Composer

  New MacPro and REDRushes

  Posted by Seawild on April 17, 2009 at 9:55 pm

  Howdy and Happy Friday!

  I am rendering a bunch of R3D footage to DNxHD 185x. (300Gigs a day). I am wondering if the new Mac are approved with REDRushes software and if anyone out there is using them and noticed if they are that much faster.

  Right now I am using a 2x3GHz QuadCore Intel Xeon with 8 GB RAM.

  I am thinking of buying a;

  Two 2.66GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Nehalem” processors 16GB memory
  NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 with 512MB

  How much faster would this system be? And can I use REDRushes on it?

  Is there a faster way to render DNxHD?

  Anyone tried using Composer 3.5 with the New MacPros? yes, I know it’s not “approved” yet..

  thx!
  Chris

  Seawild replied 17 years ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Dino

  April 17, 2009 at 10:04 pm

  RedRushes working fine on a new Dual 2.26 Quad. A little faster that an older Dual 3.0 Quad. Your 2.66 should be even faster. The only way to really make it much faster is using multiple machines. Easier if you have a SAN to tie everything together.

  Haven’t tried Media Composer on the new machines yet.
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  Michael Phillips

  April 18, 2009 at 12:39 pm

  There was some extensive testing and timing done with results posted here:

  https://michaelkammes.com/column/?p=143

  Michael

  Michael Phillips
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  Seawild

  April 18, 2009 at 9:05 pm

  Hey Guys,

  Thanks for the info! Michael Kammes article was an interesting read..

  Would having more RAM increase the rendering speed you think?

  It’s to bad, we can’t manually control Processor allocation like the old days..

  I find that REDRushes only uses 1/2 the processor power even when it’s the only APP. running.

  Chris

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