Red rocket for dpx rendering

[pingnagan]

HI All,

How can RED Rocket card's acceleration power can be used to render DPX files for post productions use, Does RedCine or Rocket Cine can help out when RED ROCKET card installed along with it.

Please let me know any other software that can use the RED ROCKET Acceleration to render 4K/2K r3d files to DPX files with out any compression like prores etc...


Rgds,

PP

[MichaelP]

RED ROCKET decodes R3D files alleviating this process from the CPU. Since the decode/debayer process is so intensive, CPU processing along on a single system was slow. A full quality debater could be upwards of 20x slower than real time (CPU dependent). By removing this task from the CPU and processing it on an accelerator card, the CPU is now left to do the encoding to whatever flavor you like; DPX, DNxHD, ProRes, etc. Many of these codecs can be done in real time or faster with CPU only. The card itself does not provide accelerated encoding at this time for any format.

Michael

[Mike Mazzotta]

Short Answer is yes. . . there's DPX export options in REDCine, REDAlert, REDRushes, and REDline.

[MichaelP]

Short answer is actually "no" to the original question asked. The REDROCKET card does not accelerate the DPX rendering processing itself although the software packages allows DPX as an export. The CPU is doing all the work. The answer is more of a "yes and no" since the decode is done on the card which is half of the process to getting to any of the exports.

Michael

[Rainer Fritz]

DPX and MXF export on the rocket runs faster as realtime on highest resolution if your storage system can take the bandwidth for we say 2k 30fps uncompressed realtime. A conforming solution is on work in progress on different companies which are using the RED SDK with rocket support....

[MichaelP]

Correct - speed of encoding to export formats done by the CPU/GPU (not by the card) can be sped up by CPU processor and drive infrastructure.

Michael