[edunwody] “Will this have any speed change for RED?”
If you are referring to Red as a standalone Render Engine on a Media 100 i system, yes. Red uses either the Hardware Codec or the software codecs if you do not launch it from within Media 100. The software codecs are considerably faster, so all File In/File Out will be much faster. The actual rendering will stay the same, though; so if you have very complex effects the read/write will not have a big share of the rendering time and therefore not affect the overall rendering time that much. But for “easy” effects this will be much faster.
If you open Red from inside Media 100 i, the movie clips will be handed over from Media 100; inside the Media 100 i application (and for exchange with PlugIns) the hardware codec is used always, so you won