tim, a rocket is not only for dailies and offline files, imho its main advantage is to be able to grade in full debayer while the GPU can take care about the layers.
a prores module would make perfect sense...its a pretty smart move from arri with prores and pretty smart from aaton with DNxHD.
the proxy module is perfect for viewing purposes with h.264.
if you can have a prores module it doesnt kill the rocket...the rocket is for grading
(i see the prores module simply as instant-offline-datamaker-your editor smiles-module....the proxy module is the your director smiles like balu the bear while watching dailies on his ipad in the hotelroom, or having a ultralight wifi watchman, all watchmen i used suck pretty much in one or another way-----both are damn cool for the......and also a REDproxyapp would be great, which can record the wifi signal to the ipads storage....again no copying needed, .....erase a step when you can)
i even go further....let the prores module be able to get a (wifi) audio signal and sync in camera.
and let the prores module letterbox the files to the aspect ratio you did shoot and the settings you did choose on camera
put your prores files on the mac, and the raw files can be stored on your online station.
you know, the editors like to edit, they edit footage coming from various cameras (ergo, mostly no rocket in the NLE station)....the more people involved get the feeling with this camera system you can concentrate on the creative parts and not on the dull workflow parts, the more they like a system and use it.
a director pretty much gets bored, if you explain him a workflow...if you can erase steps, erase them.
NOTE: I personnaly wish an All In One system.....load r3d`s, sync bwf files, edit online, grade in the same timeline
pretty much a rocket enabled smoke in a way....no waiting no xml, edl etc. one for all.
BUT thats me, and there are people who want their editor to be happy, because their editors are highly creative, same goes for their colorists, happy=more creative

