Recommended Systems For REDCine

[Jay A. Kelley]

Ok, this is such an obvious question, I am SURE it's somewhere.. This question is for RED and users alike:

What I am looking for are stable, fast systems CURRENTLY being used in the field.

APPLE LATOP: Best model
APPLE DESKTOP: Best model

PC LAPTOP: Best model
PC DESKTOP: Best model

Please break down the system by parts. Try to include ONLY those parts that are relevant to REDCine.

In a perfect world, speed comparisons using the same video clip would be nice, but let's not try for that right now.

At this time, I am damn confused as to what system to purchase. I know I cannot be the only one.

While RED supports MAC... I am not sure that's the best way to go at this time. It seems like the PCs hardware offers more choices for REDCine.. But I am not sure.. Advice would be hot.

Jay

[Cail Young]

I've been fiddling with REDCINE 1.0.1 on a Mac Pro 2xDual-2.66GHz (Quadcore) with 9GB RAM and an ATI X1900XT video card. No special storage systems, although I imagine a RAID-0 or RAID-5 might speed up DPX or other image sequence exports.

Is there a particular benchmark figure you're after? I.e. if you specify an exact input-output chain in REDCINE I can time it for you. Preferably using one of Jim's posted R3Ds, as they're pretty widely available.

[Dan]

Cail, as your set up is pretty much identical to mine i'd be interested knowing what fps playback you're getting with Jim's 4k dragster clip... and whether you're running Tiger or Leopard.

[Jay A. Kelley]

I would be interested in Quicktime playback at 1080p
Thanks for helping!

Jay

[Cail Young]

I would be interested in Quicktime playback at 1080p
Thanks for helping!

Jay

You mean QT export times from REDCINE? Or the camera/REDALERT generated proxy Quicktimes?

[Jay A. Kelley]

No, I mean I want to export quicktimes from REDCine for the purpose of online editing.

I will shoot them 4k in RED then downconvert to 1080p in REDCine

Jay

[Cail Young]

Sys stats as before:
OS X 10.5.1
Mac Pro 2x2.66GHz Dual-Core (Quadcore)
9GB RAM
ATI X1900 XT
Standard SATA storage (no RAID)
REDCINE 1.0.2

With GUI hidden, rock solid realtime playback on 1/4 high, and stuttery near-24fps (i'd estimate 15-18fps, but it's non-uniform) on 1/2 medium or high.

Jim's 10s 4K dragster shot set to Camera RGB, Rec709 Gamma, ISO 640, scaled to fit width in an HD 1080, and white balanced takes the following amount of time to export to a Prores 422 HQ Quicktime.

On Process Draft - 40s (4:1 realtime)
On Process Standard - 80s (8:1 realtime)
On Process Full - about 3:30 (~20:1 realtime)

These are uncontrolled timings.