Film workflow ideas

[Sascha Engel]

Great. Will do! Thanx a million!

Greetings,

Sascha Engel
TIME BANDITZ Productions
http://www.youtube.com/taikang

[Eric Santiago]

Oliver have any updates on this project?

Got a question and wondering if you have the same set-up as I do.

Currently installed FCXP 10.0.8 in same Avid Symphony Mac Pro/Resolve/RCXPro workstation.

For some weird reason, playback at FULL DEBAYER is stuttering in FCPX.

We can do it fine at HALF in FCPX but not full.

Now we see the stutter in the editing displays which are Dual Apple 30s running off a ATI 5870. The beefy part is two QUADRO 4000s and ROCKET housed in a CUBIX XPANDER.

I havent had time to try and feed the R3D via FCPX into BMD SDI > Flanders.

Are you using the ROCKET with FCPX at all?

[Oliver Peters]

[Eric Santiago] “Oliver have any updates on this project?”

See my comments upstream. The film just started shooting today and I’m just now working out some workflow kinks. As of today, there’s still a chance it could go MC7. Final decision tomorrow – the first day of dailies. A bit more testing and then we’ll pull the trigger for real.

[Eric Santiago] “For some weird reason, playback at FULL DEBAYER is stuttering in FCPX.”

I have a Rocket card on this Mac Pro. I intend to cut with proxies, though. I have no intension of cutting a film with native R3D. Grading, maybe. I only had a test clip, though, and that played fine. I tested 4K media in both a 2K and an HD timeline.

What sort of stuttering are you seeing? I was playing through a Kona at 29.97 (Panasonic monitor wouldn’t take 23.98) and noticed random frame jumps once every minute or so.

[Eric Santiago] “Now we see the stutter in the editing displays which are Dual Apple 30s running off a ATI 5870. The beefy part is two QUADRO 4000s and ROCKET housed in a CUBIX XPANDER.”

This Mac Pro has ATI 5870, RR, Kona and SATA/Mini-SAS cards. All internal. No expander. I also tested clips in MC7 with the RR and Kona. Also fine.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Eric Santiago]

Thanks Oliver for replying 🙂

The stutter is at FCPX playback using FULL DEBAYER.

The video playback is basically bunk at this point.

At HALF it does great but kinda defeats the purpose of having the ROCKET.

I hope its not the CUBIX setup thats causing this.

I will have a test run with a ROCKET housed in a Mac Pro very soon.

I can only get a feed to the FLANDERS from BMD EXTREME 3D via HD-SDI using RCXPro in the CUBIX set-up.

I will have to do more testing to get ths config working with FCPX.

We dont have any issues using a rMBP/MAGMA/ROCKET config with FCPX.

Thanks again Oliver and have a great workflow 🙂

[Eric Santiago]

tested the ROCKET in a Mac Pro PCI slot.
full debayer all good.
it could be the CUBIX causing the slow down or maybe OS versions.
they both have the same FCPX/RCXPro/firmware.
even when using the DeckLink to the Flanders bypassing the BOB ROCKET, we get the poor playback using full debayer from FCPX.