Blackmagic Design has announced their support for RED Rocket in both Mac and Linux configurations. Stereo .R3D playback will be supported with dual Rockets. In both MAC and Lunix installation is aimed to be plug and play.
If you do not have Rockets installed, r3d clips are decoded and debayered as per user configurable settings on a project or clip basis.
These new features and more including stereoscopic grading and monitoring are in the V7.0 release which is now in beta.
Resolve should run on both Apple Laptops and Towers ( – although only the 17″ laptops due to menus), and at the moment the Red Rocket cards are only really used in Tower systems. Most potential users are also expected to buy control surfaces but several third party control surfaces are planned to be supported.
We will have a full product review of Resolve in both an on set and production configuration as soon as the product is released, which should be soon.
Although i use both MAC and PC I hope they will release RESOLVE for Windows too since all the editing we do with RED footage is happening on Windows.
A software that developed on linux can be ported to MACOS much more easier than windows. Since MACOS itself is sort of a linux.
I am curious about the mac version of the software, and Resolve on a laptop capabilies.
It’s the same as Smoke for Mac I’d imagine (i.e Linux to OSX port) and the fact the Mac as a huge potential market with all the Final Cut Pro installations out there.
Mike, I’m curious if you and Jason could discuss resolve on a 17″MBP. I would love to hear about performance especially with 4k r3d.