[Mark Fanjoy]

Paraseau, I’ve moved on to Premiere Pro now, but I think if I recall correctly, you highlight all your video clips (or one group at a time) and simply click the “star-like” icon in the top right corner of the timeline and make it turn bright green. That button links and unlinks video/audio.

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Sam, WOW. Quite an investment for only a mobile transcoding device. I wish I had that kind of budget!

3 GHz 8-Core Intel Xeon E5
32 GB
Dual AMD FirePro D700’s (6144 MB)
OSX 10.9.5

I AM NUTS ABOUT THIS MACHINE. I LOVE IT!

As a mobile unit, you will love it. Obviously, bulkier than a laptop, but same logic. I go to hotels, and presto, I feel like I’m right there at home. Damn cool!

As for overall speed, buckle up. As for the RED Rocket card, throw it away. This unit burns transfers at REAL TIME. I haven’t clocked it, but I swear in some instances it is transcoding even faster than that. Absolutely love it.

As for 12-Core, no clue the difference. But if all you need is to run Cine-X Pro, 8-Core FLYS for me. Full 4K loading and playback in CineX, faster than you can view the clip. I worked with an amazing Mac Rep when I purchased. He was totally into the editing thing. I told him, I don’t care what I spend, this is what I need to do. This is the unit he set me up with. He could have stocked me with the max, but said this will do it.

I use Photoshop, Compressor (standalone from FC), Lightroom, MS word, all often at the same time while playing online poker. I’m losing money faster than I ever have!

They have very cool travel cases online for this trash can. Heavily padded. I think those are cooler than a Pelican case. But personal preference.

Hope this info helps.

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[Mark Fanjoy]

Thanks for the lead, Nick. Will check out Video Toolshed!

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Hi, Shane. Appreciate your response. I was afraid that was the case. It’s the only way I’ve been able to connect files in this condition in the past. Wanted to explore any other possible options. But at least now I can begin the daunting process!

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Well, I’m now on the other side of my original question. So, ironically, and since no moderators ever responded, I can answer myself on the forum!

I purchased a new Mac Pro with dual AMD FirePro D700’s. I am excited to report that utilizing the openCL capabilities of RED CineX-Pro, my new Mac is processing RED material, shot in multiple frame rates (23.98, 59.97, 120), at and slightly better than real time. Interestingly, sometimes it processes longer clips (15min lengths) at slightly slower than real time (about 90%).

As I continued to venture into this question, I decided to abandon the RED Rocket Card for another reason as well. I learned that even if some of the other cards were not quite at real time processing of RED media, they were well over 50%, which I decided for the price difference, was acceptable. I didn’t need absolute real time transcoding just to say I could. I was willing to push the button, go to lunch and accept 50% or so speed, and save $1,500 – $2K.

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I never received a response to my question. I don’t think these guys like open-ended, “loose” topics like this. More direct, immediate problem-solving questions I think are the norm.

Since this original post, I did have the tech guys at RED tell me they believe it is still more efficient and productive to have a Red Rocket Card for transcoding. They were very nice and seemed objective, but they signed the email, “Thanks for supporting RED”. Sooooooo, maybe a bit bias? I don’t know.

Would be nice if someone here “been there done that” offered an opinion, but I understand. I’ve had several key troubleshooting questions answered here that proved very helpful. So, I can’t take a dig 🙂

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Andrew, thanks for firing this conversation back up. It gave me some insight to dig deeper.

Oddly, the only Sony tool I can find to work is the XDCam Transfer software. Instead of connecting an external device to import clips, I selected the directory structure as the “source” and presto, it sees it. I used the import function to transcode the files into .mov format so FC can see them, and I’m back on a roll.

Maybe a whacky way to get to the file, but hey, it worked while nothing else would.

Thank you very much for your interest and input.

To complete the story, here were my dead end paths:

XDCam Clip Browser sees a blank thumbnail, but will not open for view.

XDCam Log & Transfer plugin installed but I cannot see it in my FC Preferences in Log & Transfer. FC appears to be trying to open the clip directory, but craps out and crashes.

XDCam Content Browser software requires some sort of registration serial number in order to install, which I do not have.

Thanks again, all !

Mark Fanjoy

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[Mark Fanjoy]

Well, I got close. I downloaded the Sony XDCam Clip Browser and it mounted one clip but would not play it back. There are 30 other clips it doesn’t see.

There must be an issue with the file structure.

Thanks for leading me in the right direction. I’ll keep tinkering.

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Thanks for the confirmation, Nick. Appreciate it.

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Outstanding, Joseph. Thank you!

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