Do I need a RED rocket to work with R3D files in real time?

[Joseph Owens]

Apparently a good idea, but not mandatory if you have a powerful 8- or 12-core MacPro.

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Andi Winter]

i’ve got 4 cores, but if you turn on cache mode and quarter debayering, it’s near realtime!

[Vladimir Kucherov]

A 12 core will debayer half-res good in realtime, or at least, one stream of it.

[Stuart Ferreyra]

I agree with everyone else. No need to spend on a Rocket card unless you know you it will return the investment. A powerful MacPro and the settings should give you great real-time performance.

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[Jarek Sterczewski]

I’ll try to work without the Red Rocket 🙂

THX All.

DaVinci 8.0.1 OS X 10.7
MacPro 2×2,26 16GB RAID0 8TB
Nvidia Quadro FX 4800
Extreme 3D + HDLinkPro
Tangent WAVE

[Ola Haldor voll]

I work with quarter-res debayer if it’s 4K. It’s OK. Haven’t had a client who’s mentioned anything about visual quality yet. However, I’d love to go at least half-res..

[Sascha Haber]

I am also not a huge fan of the card.
It does what it says, speeding up playback.
But scrubbing is very laggy ad sluggish, and feels slower that without the card.
It a great buy if you get paid for doing dailies though

A slice of color…

DaVinci 8.0.1 OSX 10.7
MacPro 5.1 2×2,4 24GB
RAID0 8TB eSata 6TB
GTX 470 / GT 120
Extreme 3D+ WAVE

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[Jarek Sterczewski]

Thx all for support :))
It starts in September working on a feature film with my beloved DOP and Director, I would like to Wieck had perfect conditions:))

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MacPro 2×2,26 16GB RAID0 8TB
Nvidia Quadro FX 4800
Extreme 3D + HDLinkPro
Tangent WAVE

[Margus Voll]

I wonder if it can be half and half combo like 12 cores for scrubbing and rr for playback ?

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Margus

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[Jake Blackstone]

I use cache render with full debayer quality for real time EVERYTHING, including NR and unlimited nodes. No RR needed. What missing is the ability of Resolve to “remember” cached files. Every time you restart the session, your cache is gone and computer has to rerender it all, even, that that rendered file is still there. Also, strange one, if you just bypass all grades, upon enable, computer has to rerender it again, why?
I would like to see the cacheing scheme, similar to Nucoda or, now, Baselight. Material get’s debayered and NR to a separate cache file and actual grading is done from that (10 or 16 bit selectable DPX). This way you can just conform the session, apply the NR and have coffee, while system does it’s thing. From then on it’s smooth sailing, no debayer. If you need to change red setting, computer just re-renders those frames. Everything real time, no sweat…