Redcode and Leopard + one timesaving idea.

[Greg Voevodsky]

Will Redcode work with Apple's new Leopard?

I would hope RED is working with a pre-release of Leopard so we can all buy a dual quad Mac with Leopard and an optimized Redcode to tear through its circuits. Tell me, is it true!?!

One Idea - for the RED Camera - a simple playback button that would jump back and play the shot that you just shot - automatically. Like checking the gate, you hit the button, it plays the take, everyone approves and you move on. (Rather than a VCR or Tivo of having to scan backwards to the beginning, find the slate and press play - this would be a serious time saver!) Is this a possibility or do we have to wait for a firmwear upgrade?

[Jeff Kilgroe]

I'm sure the RED team is all over this... Leopard is due before NAB and hopefully will arrive by then. Apple should have updates to their "pro" apps at NAB and I would imagine they will want to capitalize on features in Leopard with the updates. Not to mention, those 8-core Mac Pro systems with dual X16 PCI-E interfaces for multi-card SLI/CrossFire style video configurations and other hardware goodies.

...Or maybe I'm just dreaming.

[Brook Willard]

I'm willing to bet they're developing on the bleeding edge per Mac OS X 10.5 and REDCINE [the application]. REDCODE is a series of image compression formats which will work with any Quicktime-supporting application.

I'm also willing to bet that the playback interface on the RED ONE will be both linear [rewind to play] and clip-based [find the take and click it]. Whether playback from the camera is viable on every set out there is another matter which has been discussed in great detail on here... I recommend checking it out. I'm sure somebody with a better memory will post the name of the thread.

[Chris Kenny]

Clip-based playback is far more natural than VCR-style rewinding, given that the camera stores clips in separate files. I wouldn't actually be too surprised if it doesn't even support VCR-style rewinding outside of the currently selected clip; the notion doesn't make a lot of sense in a file-based world, though technically it wouldn't be too hard to implement.