Red Rocket in AE CS5

[Magnus Tondevold]

Hi Guys,

I got my RR up and running beautifully and wow, what a difference!

I am however unsure of how the settings are supposed to be set for it to work with AE CS5. I found the instructions on Adobes homepage, and I hope someone can tell me where the "global settings" and Source Settings are on a mac. I thought I was good at this, but I guess not.

Adobes instructions are below:
Support for RED Rocket cards: RED Rocket cards are optional cards that can accelerate decoding and debayering of RED (R3D) files. To tell After Effects to make use of an installed RED Rocket card, use the Enable RED Rocket (Global Setting) menu in the RED (R3D) Source Settings dialog box. The options are None, One, and All. The One and All settings refer to the maximum number that will be used by After Effects; if fewer are available, then only the available number will be used. If another application acquires the ROCKET card before After Effects does, After Effects does not display a message at launch that it will fall back to software (non-ROCKET) rendering

Im on a Mac Pro.

Thanks

Magnus

:emote_hippie:

[D Fuller]

Select an R3d clip I the project window.
File>interpret footage>main
Click "More Options" button in the lower left.
If you have installed the update, and if there is a Rocket installed, there will be a menu pulldown in the lower left of the window where you can set the number of rockets to use (should you be so lucky as to have more than one.)

Note: AE will not use the Rocket if another program is open that can use it (Redcine, Premiere, for example.)

[Magnus Tondevold]

Thanks D Fuller,

That was a not very obvious to me, but it certainly did the trick.

Magnus

[Magnus Tondevold]

Render time down from 15,5 hour to 55 minutes ;-) :yesnod:

[D Fuller]

Thanks D Fuller,

That was a not very obvious to me, but it certainly did the trick.

Magnus

Yeah, you'd kind of expect it to show up in preferences (or at least I did) but all of the R3d stuff seems to be together in that window.

[Magnus Tondevold]

What about Premiere Pro CS5? Is that done the same way?

Magnus