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AJA IO or AJA Kona2
I am contemplating buying a new board. I currently have a Decklink Extreme.
Dual 2.5 G5, 4.5gig RAM. FCP4.5 Using a G-raid Firewire 800. I heard a great
opinion about the IO but need to know if I should go to the Kona2. I am presently
working in SD only but will go to HD in the near future. I WORK MOSTLY WITH
Digibeta, DVCpro25, and Beta-sp. Should I get both IO and Kona2? (A lot of money)
Should I buy IO And get Kona 2 later? Shouls I get IO LA for now? I need to make this decision or purchase real soon as my decklink is not working too good.
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Buy the IO now!!! Edit like a monkey hard and fast. Make lots of money with the IO, then turn around and pay cash for the Kona2!! But don’t forget, if you want to edit HD without having to downconvert to DVCPRO HD on your G-raid, you will also need a hefty amount of drive space using Fiber Xraid or SATA solutions.
Hope that helps 🙂
Andy
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Thanks so much for the reply. For now with the G-raid on the 800 firewire, I need a firewire card for the IO. Any suggestions?
Thanks
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For the Firewire card: try a medea or lacie card. should not matter. Just need to get your drives off the G5 ports and on a card. Why not build a SATA array and move away from the Firewire issue all together?
Andy
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What SATA Card would you reccomend? Can I build my own Array?
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Hop on over to http://www.macgurus.com and read up on building your own SATA array
https://www.macgurus.com/productpages/sata/satakits.phpI built my own from equipment I saw on their site. The sata card I would buy now, would be the sonnet tempo 8 port external card. ( https://www.sonnettech.com/product/tempo-x_esata8.html ) I currently have the 4 port internal and 4 port external card hooked up to a 4 drive Burly box.
I bought my 4 300 Gig SATA drives from Fry’s for $199 a piece.
If you want major HD footage on your drives and no DVCPRO HD downcoversion, I would look into the 8 drive burly box.
Hope this helps.
Andy
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Thanks so much. I’ll look into this.
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Why bother getting the IO when the Kona 2 is only $300 more, the time lag on editing with an IO is very annoying. Go with a PCI card not firewire!
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How about the fact that the Kona 2 lacks YUV and S-video in… something he needs to do the BetaSP he listed? This remains the single biggest mystery to me… why did they leave this off on the Kona 2 when the Io and the decklinks all have this?
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com
http://www.insightproductions.com -
I’d hold off on that Sonnett. Some testing results are coming up less than positive with certain drives. The Rocket Raid has proven to be pretty good (after some early problems), and the safest of all are the SeriTek cards. Personally, I’d get two of the external 4 ports and max out the performance by splitting the load.
My .02… (from a guy who’s been doing SATA raids from the day the first G5 dual was released)
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com
http://www.insightproductions.com
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