Red Render Farm

[Scott Brown]

One of the BIG issues for us with the Red workflow at the moment is the time taken to convert from REDCODE™ RAW (.R3D) files to something workable in FCP, such as Pro Res.

90% of what we plan to shoot with Red will be for HD broadcast output at 1080 25p and as it stands the workflow is simply NOT practical.

This has started me thinking....now we know that the Red team are capable of miracles of biblical proportions, so would it be possible to come up with a "Red Box" that could take our .R3D files and transcode these into our preferred file format and output these in real-time or certainly at a MUCH faster rate than the present workflow allows? For us personally, 1080p output would be fantastic.

I know that Jim and the team have a few BIG surprises up their sleeves for NAB and I do recall hearing about a 4K playback system and I'm wondering if this is something that they have already thought of for this device?

Anyone care to chip in with this? Surely with all the technology we have around today this could be achievable?

Best wishes

Scott

[Irri]

Can't RED Alert do command line i.e. render farm?

[jtcoleman]

One of the BIG issues for us with the Red workflow at the moment is the time taken to convert from REDCODE™ RAW (.R3D) files to something workable in FCP, such as Pro Res.

90% of what we plan to shoot with Red will be for HD broadcast output at 1080 25p and as it stands the workflow is simply NOT practical.

This has started me thinking....now we know that the Red team are capable of miracles of biblical proportions, so would it be possible to come up with a "Red Box" that could take our .R3D files and transcode these into our preferred file format and output these in real-time or certainly at a MUCH faster rate than the present workflow allows? For us personally, 1080p output would be fantastic.

I know that Jim and the team have a few BIG surprises up their sleeves for NAB and I do recall hearing about a 4K playback system and I'm wondering if this is something that they have already thought of for this device?

Anyone care to chip in with this? Surely with all the technology we have around today this could be achievable?

Best wishes

Scott

I don't have a firm plan on this, yet, but was thinking on contacting some guys that I know who have a CGI render farm out in LA ... they don't support it yet, I don't believe, but I'm sure the nework and pipeline they have built would be easily adaptable... and I think they are pretty reasonable on pricing.

I'll drop them a line and see what they think ... if it looks affordable and workable, I'll post an update here.

JT
Austin, Tx

[BASSAM MSSALATIE]

if it looks affordable and workable, I'll post an update here.

JT
Austin, Tx

thanks .so please if you hear anything .

[Jeff Kilgroe]

REDline is available now for OSX and will be for Win/Lin soon.

Most network render node management softwares will allow you to customize for REDline and set up your network render pipeline. Qube! and Alienbrain should be easily adapted to support REDline. I use ButterflyNetRender for LightWave and XSI and it will work with REDline too.. I'm also thinking Spider (from the defunct Station-X) would be easily adapted too. I'll ask the guy who holds the source code if he's interested. That could be a nice free option for a lot of individual RED owners looking to set up a small farm.

[BASSAM MSSALATIE]

That could be a nice free option for a lot of individual RED owners looking to set up a small farm.

thanks Jeff hope you could do something about this i am really interrested
having small farm with running cows in it .:)

[Obin Olson]

what is Redline?

[Scott Brown]

I'd be interested to hear what Graeme Nattress has to say on this, after all REDCODE™ RAW is his baby (congrats on your new one too Graeme!) and I think he is the obvious person to get on the case with this.

It seems to me that GPU accceleration is now the big thing as opposed to the brute force grunt of masses of CPU's and I can't help thinking that there must be a way of streamlining this - has anyone come up with a definitive table of render times for REDCODE™ RAW with various computer configurations?

The current render times are keeping me awake at night and are making Red a non runner for our broadcast output.

Scott

[Michael Morlan]

I believe REDline is the abbreviation for REDAlert! command line tool as recently introduced in this thread:

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=8570

[Sunshine Whitton]

Can't RED Alert do command line i.e. render farm?

REDLine is so cool. I was playing with it last night. Looks like you could set up quick and dirty batch processing of your r3d files. Divide the work among several computers. I wonder how long before you would saturate your shared storage if multiple nodes processed to the same shared storage for simplicity... hmmmm. This get's me thinking... Has any script kitty out there already done this?