• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Need advice on Buying an HD card.

  Posted by Lockwoodtv on November 26, 2005 at 7:30 pm

  Aja or Black Magic?

  keep my IO or sell it? would like to sell it because of the FW latency but it works great and would allow me to buy HD only card.

  PCIX or PCIe?

  New G5 quad or keep dual 2g?

  Will be working with HDCam, Digibeta and Betasp so I will still need analog input since I do not own A500.

  1. Sell IO keep g5 2g and buy KONA LH PCIx
  2. Sell IO and buy KONA LH PCIe and G5 quad
  3. Keep IO keep g5 2g and buy KONA 2 PCIx
  4. Keep IO keep g5 2g and buy KONA LH PCIx (seems to be most logical choice)
  5. Keep IO and buy Black Magic HD/SDI card

  any other ideas?

  Is the quad worth the money and short lived life? Is it that mush faster? Will it run a (2) hour HD show better? will the intel G5s crush it?

  I need best possible solution. Money is not a concern.

  I will be using the Promax SATA drives. The (2) terabyte boxes raided with the 8 interface cables.

  My huge is only single channel and I understand ATTO has no card yet for the PCIe, The UL5D card is on the way I understand.

  Its a very confusing time. I need to deliver a (2) hour Discovery Channel show Jan 6th. Should start the up-res Dec 20th, so to need to decide asap.

  10.4.3
  fcp 5.03
  g5 dual 2
  3.5 gig ram
  atto ul3d
  pro max sata 1tb
  huge 1tb single channel
  aja i/o

  http://www.lockwoodtv.com

  Michael Buday replied 20 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Michael Buday

  November 28, 2005 at 5:29 am

  Hey Brian,

  Mike Buday here. Give me a call when you can. I did jump into the fray soon after we talked and opted for the Black Magic Single-Link HD card. So far, very happy with it for both HD and SD, but I didn’t need analog I/O since I’ve got the A500 here. I’ve even become very fond of FCP except for a couple of really stupid quirks!

  See ya . .

  Michael

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