Rocket + LINUX

[roryhinds]

anyone know when the Linux drivers for the REDRocket are going to come out?

[Alexander Ibrahim]

I don't expect Rocket drivers for Linux at all.

I'd be very happy to have them... but then RED would have to deliver RedCine and their other applications for Linux as well.

An important question would have to be asked... why do you need them?

What is your post workflow that requires Rocket on Linux?

[roryhinds]

Apple has left the pro market
Linux is the future and for many its the present
Storm is coming to Linux

[Erwin Vanderhoydonks]

Apple has left the pro market
Linux is the future and for many its the present
Storm is coming to Linux

Apple hasn't left the pro market, there just a little late...
Linux is not for the PRO market yet...
Nice to know that Storm is coming to Linux...

But for the moment I stay with my Apple computers.

[roryhinds]

if Linux isn't for the Pro market yet, someone should tell Autodesk, The Foundry, BlackMagic, FilmLight...

[JanneJansson]

Linux is 100% pro. You probably don't mess arround with that unless you have a good reason to :) Because all is open source you can make custom setups not possitble in win or osx.

[N_Villers]

Linux not pro??!! LOL

[Matthias Martin]

Yeah, just ask Robin Rowe...
This idea that Linux is "not for the pro market" comes from the big weight that RED has in the TVC and such realms, whereas the big feature productions have been transitioning to Linux ever since "Titanic". http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9951
I know, big generalization, but still.
ILM and the like are such closed entities that it is hard to tell from the outside.

[Stephen Gentle]

A Linux version of REDLINE (especially if it had a ROCKET option) would be really, really useful for me (and a lot of others, I'm sure).

A port of REDCINE X would be absolutely incredible too but perhaps hoping for that is a little optimistic. I'm buying Storm for my Mac so I'm really hoping they bring out a Linux version too - as I have far more combined CPU resources running Linux than Mac OS X.

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Linux support (32 and 64 bit) is part of the SDK. But no Linux drivers for the Rocket yet. All in due time I suppose... New SDK is promised for next week, we'll see if it has any new goodies in it. SDK is technically under NDA, so can't really say much more. RED hasn't got all of the Rocket features enabled and running 100% yet on Mac/Windows, so I don't know if the time is right to pile on Linux support too.

[Wolfgang Woehl]

A Linux version of REDLINE (especially if it had a ROCKET option) would be really, really useful for me (and a lot of others, I'm sure).

You're probably aware of the wine option: redline runs fine with wine. Ugh, sorry for the rhyme.

Also, iirc, weren't there people, of the desperate kind obviously, who made binary drivers for early WLAN cards work on linux boxes? I seem to remember those hacks even made it upstream into distributions for quite some time, up until the driver situation wrt linux relaxed.

That may well have been a nightmare, I'm not sure.

[Peter Moretti]

Apple has left the pro market
Linux is the future and for many its the present
Storm is coming to Linux

Give me a break, and that's coming from an Avid user. FCP is very pro.

[Aaron Newsome]

Linux isn't for Pro's? I had to comment since that post gave me a real good chuckle this morning.

[roryhinds]

One year on and the question still remains... When will Linux support arrive... It still says "Coming Soon" on the Red website.

[M Most]

One year on and the question still remains... When will Linux support arrive... It still says "Coming Soon" on the Red website.


Linux support has been available for some time now. Baselight has had it for over a year.

[roryhinds]

So why have Red not released Linux support on their website?

[M Most]

So why have Red not released Linux support on their website?


Probably because there is no software support for the Red Rocket on Linux except where implemented by a developer. As I mentioned, the SDK has been available for some time and is updated pretty much in lock step with the Mac and Windows versions. I know about that reasonably first hand because we were able to get Epic support in Baselight very quickly when we had a pilot shot on Epics last spring (the first television production to do so). That support was due to some great cooperation between Filmlight and Red, and quick integration (literally overnight) of the new SDK by Filmlight (the same thing happened when we needed to quickly get Mysterium X support about a year earlier). But since there is no RedcineX for Linux, no Avid or Adobe editing software for Linux, and no other common utilities that play R3d files, there is little reason for Red to put drivers on the website. If you're a developer, I'm sure Red will be happy to help you out with both drivers and development tools. My guess is that you'll see such support in things like Lightworks for Linux when it's ready.