Video Card for MAC when editing RED footage in FCP

[Gary Adcock]

[Chris Woods] “I believe I am getting the video card, just have to find the best one at a good price. I heard blackmagic is all right. Any thoughts on that card? “

Red recommends Kona Cards for a reason.

AJA’s tools handle most of the processes needed in hardware- up, down and cross conversion are always done in hardware everytime. Realtime processing and scaling to SMPTE standard rasters of Redcode content in hardware. True 2K handling capabilities with realtime 1080 HD viewing. Correct (optional) handling of RED content as True P in 1080 vs handling content output as PsF.( they may have this fixed however)

All of the BMD cards still rely on a fair amount of CPU processing to handle many of the tasks on the card, and somethings like cross-conversion from 720 x1080 they cannot do without rendering.

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[Mario Rubertis]

[Gary Adcock]<i>” Red recommends Kona Cards for a reason.
AJA’s tools handle most of the processes needed in hardware- up, down and cross conversion are always done in hardware everytime.”
….”All of the BMD cards still rely on a fair amount of CPU processing to handle many of the tasks on the card, and somethings like cross-conversion from 720 x1080 they cannot do without rendering.”

Gary,
I don’t know if RED recommends Matrox MXO2 or not but it seems to me that it would be able to do the trick. Here is my theory… Take in the RED material via the Reddisc (or Red Drive I`m not quite sure what they call it) Seeing that FCP can eidt the 1K or 2K files all I would need to do is hook up my MXO2 to my MBP and monitor via HDMI in 1080 or in Chris’s case use the MXO2 hardware downscaler and view it on his SD monitor… either way I think Chris has another choice with the MXO2.

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[Whitney Dunn]

Hey Russel,

I was interested in the link you posed to get more info on the RED workflow but the link doesn’t work.

https://www.red.com/downloads/b3e85d9754267709471008e4b692c2e7f34f3d33/RED%2...

Is there another link to follow?

Thanks so much 🙂