RAW Output Connection

[Clint Childers]

What is the High Speed Serial Interface for the RAW Output? Or the real question is how can I connect my Mac with this high speed serial interface. Are there 3rd party cards that I can expand my mac to handle this interface. I am mainly wondering for the ability of 4k 60 FPS, slo motion shots.

[Rob Lohman]

You cannot connect that port to your computer (it's 1 GB/s [yes gigabyte, not bits] per second at the top speed). You will need a special recorder (RED-RAID) for that.

[Clint Childers]

The on board red drive recorder? Or another red-raid drive module that hasn't been released yet? For some reason I was thinking that you couldnt shoot 4k 60 fps to the on camera hard drives. But that is perfect if you can shoot 4k 60 fps to an onboard hard drive raid.

[IAN SUN]

The on board red drive recorder? Or another red-raid drive module that hasn't been released yet? For some reason I was thinking that you couldnt shoot 4k 60 fps to the on camera hard drives. But that is perfect if you can shoot 4k 60 fps to an onboard hard drive raid.

...no

[jbeale]

The only Red drive shown so far, the one that mounts on the camera, is as I recall a two-disc raid that connects via eSATA. As you may know the SATA protocol runs at either 1.5 or 3 Gbit/sec data rate and that is the signal rate, not the actual data transfer rate which is always slower. But more significantly a two-drive array cannot come close to that. Uncompressed data at 1 GByte/sec (8 Gbit/sec) is an entirely different ballpark, for which you are talking about LARGE arrays, for example 40 drives in parallel.

[Álex Montoya]

What brings me to... if the RED DRIVE can ingest more than 27 MB/sec, wouldn't it be nice that there was a possibility of acquiring 4K with REDCODE RAW at a lower compression rate? Just to shut up some of the naysayers.