Why is there still a RED alert???

[tj williams]

Forgive my terminal ignorance of all things softwarish...:greedy: :greedy:

Now that RED cine is available for download in a running verison why is there still a RED alert, and why is it continuing to be developed????

Will it run on smaller/cheaper computers?
Is it inherently more stabile?
Why????

[Shawn Nelson]

RedAlert is awesome for a quick pass of just one R3D file.

Plus, if they've done their programming correctly, RedAlert should be using mostly shared code with RedCine

[sparkhope]

I thought Red Alert was a Nattress production while RedCine was done by Assimilate.

[Dylan Reeve]

Also, RED Alert (and REDline) are all-CPU I believe, they don't require a specific GPU (or any at all).

[Mike Prevette]

Redalert and Redline are super handy because they can run on more machines (GPU independent) and Redline in particular can be convinced to work in a render-farm style operation. Both very handy apps.

[Sanjin Jukic]

RedAlert is more handy for a quick look than Redcine that "locks" you in one screen app. For example I can compare the looks at RedAlert and Shake, FCP, PS, AE, ...etc., from one screen simultaneously but from Redcine I have always to exit app...

[Graeme Nattress]

RedAlert is the 3rd major version of my "little R&D app". (There's an awful lot of Deanan and Rob code in there too now) It has continued development because people like it, and we at RED continue to find it useful. As pointed out, it's CPU based and hence can run on practically any intel mac, regardless of it's GPU capability.

Graeme

[Fredrik Callinggard]

RedAlert is brilliant but when is it going to take 4K 16:9 files???? Pretty please let it be sooner than later!!!!!!!

Edit: I actually find it to be more useful in the workflow (converting) for us where we end up with professional graders.


Kind regards,


Fredrik Callinggard

[Graeme Nattress]

Yes, sooner rather than later....

Graeme

[Kjetil Haugen]

RedAlert is still the only app that can generate new proxies. Will Redcine do the same eventually?