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Mobile Rocket for RED Rocket
Red Rocket sold seperatly.
Maxx Digital is proud to announce its first product developed with the RED Camera Company, the Mobile Rocket. The Mobile Rocket allows you to bring the functionality of the RED Rocket into the field with your Macbook Pro. Connecting through the Express 34 slot allows the RED Rocket full use of the 10Gb/sec PCI-express extender technology for unprecedented trough put. Put through rigorous testing within RED, the Mobile Rocket is the only product manufactured outside of RED to have the honor of carrying the RED Digital Cinema badge.
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What can the Mobile Rocket do?
The great staff over at RED tweeked the RED Rocket drivers and firmware with the Mobile Rocket to allow:
The Mobile Rocket using the 1x Express 34 slot on the MacBook Pro:
•Full debayer scaled to 1k for playback through the laptop.
•Full debayer output through Rocket monitor output at 2k or 4k.
•Accelerated full debayer/decompressing/downscaling of R3D.
•Speed of transcoding to QT/MXF is dependent on the laptop processor speed. (ProRes runs at about 14fps from 4k)
•Speed of generating DPX files is limited by the available disk speed and the max bandwidth through PCIe x1
The Mobile Rocket using the 4x PCIe HBA Kit with the Mac Pro:
•Full debayer scaled to 2k for playback through the desktop.
•Full debayer output through Rocket monitor output at 2k or 4k.
•Accelerated full debayer/decompressing/downscaling of R3D.
•Speed of transcoding to QT/MXF if dependent on the desktop processor speed. (ProRes runs at about 30fps on a Nahalem 8 core macpro)
•Speed of generating DPX files is limited by the available disk speed and the max bandwidth through PCIe x4
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NOTE: Please make sure that you download the latest firmware and drivers from the RED SUPPORT page before you install your RED Rocket card. All RED Rocket cards integrated by Maxx Digital will have the latest updates.
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| The Mobile Rocket comes with everything you need to connect to your Macbook Pro. In addition to having the ability to use the Mobile Rocket in the field, Maxx Digital developed a PCI extender host bus adaptor to allow you to connect to your Mac Pro. With a small extra charge you don't need to swap around cards order to use the RED Rocket with your Mac Pro.
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Do to increased demand the Mobile Rocket is now back ordered. We will continue shipping as soon as possible. Please feel free to place an order and your credit card will be charged the day your Mobile Rocket ships.
Features
Intelligent Design, The Mobile Rocket is the same foot print of the 17" MacBook Pro allowing the Laptop to easy attach to the unit. It also features a PCI slot that fits both full-length or Low Profile PCI Express cards. This allows for not only the RED Rocket to fit but you can also use the Mobile Rocket for a RAID Card , Video Card, AJA, Blackmagic, and Matrox Capture Cards.
Ultra quite fans with airflow guides to utilize cooling to protect your PCI Express Cards without excessive noise.
Supports full-lenght or low Profile PCI-e cards that require up to 85 watts of continuous power
External universal power adapter eliminates excessive heat generation inside the Mobile Rocket
Unique slide open top to provide easy access to install PCI Express cards
Optional Rackmount kit (Sold Separately, pricing coming soon) allows you to mount your Mobile Rocket to a rackmount cabinet (1U hight)
Support both Windows and MacOS X & RoHS Compliant
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