A lot of people have asked for the exact equipment we used to enable real-time playback for 10 months of post-production and even glitch-free playback of a 3-hour timeline using only the RED 6K R3D files on the feature film 6 BELOW.
No offline. No transcodes. No waiting. Here are the components we used in the edit bay for the first Native 6K Feature Film in Hollywood History:
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For more detailed breakdowns on the editing process for this film, see my previous blog posts:
How I Created the First 6K Native Workflow for a Hollywood Feature Film
21 Updates on the Editing Process for “6 Below”
My 6K Edit Bay on “6 BELOW”
As well as this detailed post on hardware for “6 Below” by Mike McCarthy:
6K Editing Hardware and Performance
Until next time…
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I like your “first native 6k” wood desktop ;o)
Any reason not to use proxies? I’m editing a pretty standard documentary at the moment but get crashes in Premiere pretty often. Do you think Windows 7 is more stable?