Rockett Speed

[Kevin Lang]

Just got the rocket today....cool looking box! Unfortunately thats all I can say for it right now.

I have a Macpro Tower 2.66 dual core
5gigs of ram
I have it in the 8xpci lane
3 tb in raid config.

right now its taking like 3min to render out a 40sec clip in Prores 444.

What do I need to speed this thing up? I know its user error!
Thanks

[jimhare]

You didn't say what software you are using. The Rocket only works with Red Cine X and Rocket Cine X, and you need to make sure you select the Rocket icon and it's glowing.

Also, you didn't say what resolution you are transcoding to.

Let us know what's happening and we can help. You should be getting 1:1 or at worst 1:1.5, but 1:4 sounds like there is no Rocket at all.

[Kevin Lang]

You didn't say what software you are using. The Rocket only works with Red Cine X and Rocket Cine X, and you need to make sure you select the Rocket icon and it's glowing.

Also, you didn't say what resolution you are transcoding to.

Let us know what's happening and we can help. You should be getting 1:1 or at worst 1:1.5, but 1:4 sounds like there is no Rocket at all.

Sorry I am using Red Cine X 221 I think the most recent. Full Debayer Prores 444. I can see the rocket icon glowing.

[jimhare]

What resolution are you transcoding to? Makes a big difference in transcode time.

Also, do you get realtime playback of your R3Ds? This is the big test.

[Johnny Friday]

Also, is your rocket installed in slot 2? I recall a lot of discussion on what slot and therefore i placed mine in 2nd slot.

I do transcodes pretty regular from R3D to prores 4444 and get about 1:1.5 speed....BUT at 1920 x 1080. This will make a difference if you set your size higher.

[Kevin Lang]

Im going to 1920x1080 and at full res the r3d's choke a little bit.

[Johnny Friday]

what slot is your card in?
sounds strange since i can get smoking speeds with this setup. I think you should also up your ram to 8gig to 16gig. Mine is an older 2.2ghz machine with 32gig ram, but i think i'm only utilizing 16gig.
But slot two is best place and there have been all kinds of reported problems if using anything else.

[Brian Timmons]

Im going to 1920x1080 and at full res the r3d's choke a little bit.

How does your performance in RedCineX b221 compare to RocketCineX b1740?

I do notice that transcodes seem to be a bit faster under RocketCineX compared to RedCineX though playback performance is about the same.

I wonder if this is due to the Quicktime encoding part of the transcode as RocketCineX seems to make better use of more CPU cores compared to RedCineX.
I imagine this is due to RedCineX not being fully optimized in Beta.

My card happens to be in slot 2.

Brian Timmons
britim media

[Kevin Lang]

Ok, Rocket Cine is way faster a clip that is 30 sec took 1:15 in redcine took only 35 sec. in Rocket cine!!! Oh yeah im in slot 2!!

[Brian Timmons]

Ok, Rocket Cine is way faster a clip that is 30 sec took 1:15 in redcine took only 35 sec. in Rocket cine!!! Oh yeah im in slot 2!!

Yeah, I think when RedCineX is fully optimized it should be similar to RocketCine X in speed.

I still like what's going on in RedCine X developments
and have been using it for the past week to "pre-grade" a film. It's really grown and it's quite stable.

Enjoy your RedRocket!

Brian Timmons
britim media