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AJA HD-I/O vs. V3HD Question
I am at the point of up grading my system to and HD/SD hybrid. I have narrowed my choices between those 2. My question is in my work flow.
Right now, I import the P2 footage and edit in a DVCPRO 100 time line. Then I copy paste the footage into a new time line that is Pro Res 422 10-bit to do color correction before output. I can see a difference when I color correction in 8 bit vs. 10 bit. In 8 bit the Sky starts to show banding where 10-bit is a smooth gradient, that is just an example.
Talking to V3HD people they say I can color correct in in Pro Res 10 bit but it converts to DVCPRO 100 8 bit on the fly going through the box.
Since you folks are P2’ers, what route would you go? Also anyone have any experience with the V3HD yet?
Thanks,
-Lars
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6 Replies
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Have not worked with either… but own several AJA products. Have found them to be responsive when things go wrong and that the products have performed well.
Richard M. Harrington, PMP
Author: Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, and ATS:iWork
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Thanks for the reply. Doing some research on the web brought up very little. Using P2 makes me want to buy the V3HD since it DVCPRO native. But the fact that the codec is limited to 8-bit is a major draw back for color correction.
The AJA I/O HD is 10-bit but I must then transcode my footage to Pre Res 422.
-Lars
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In your first post you said you Color Correct with a pro res timeline so seems like you are already in the pro res realm. But the IoHD can work with DVCProHD timelines anyway.
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I guess you are right. The I/O has Pro Res for hardware encode but I guess since Apple software decompresses it then it would play through the I/O box in real time?
I guess I am leaning towards the I/O. The V3HD would fit so nicely in my rack I have set up and sounds like it is around $700 cheaper. But I do Color Correct in 10 bit.
Does anyone know of any Pro Res decks coming out? I know there are DVCpro 100 decks out there, I wonder if they will ever make ProRes decks?
-Lars
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I like the IO HD. AJA has been very solid for years. MOTU is great for audio gear but this is their first foray into the HD display arena. I’d be curious to see what their long term commitment to the market and to tech support in general is going to be.
AJA is very tight with Apple as well in terms of updated driver support, while MOTU is a bit of an unknown. Still if they’d like to send me a demo unit, I’ll play with it. lol.
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[Lars Wikstrom] “I wonder if they will ever make ProRes decks? “
ProRes is like Apple’s version of AVC which is in the BluRay spec. While an HDV style (cheap) deck that writes PoRes or AVC-I would be awesome, putting ProRes to tape would be a step backwards. Highly efficient compression standards of ProRes and AVC suit disc based media for faster access and interactivity.
Sony seems to be intent on keeping BluRay for exclusive distribution of Sony Pictures Releases with licensing to protect copyrights for the movie industry. In the mean time there are hoards of us smaller independent content producers waiting for such a vehicle for our own archiving and distribution needs. I don’t understand what is taking so long for affordable HD authoring solutions to become available. The market is right for some efficient archiving and distribution medium for the masses.
Our needs are right up Apple’s alley, serving the masses (read: selling in quantity to the masses). Perhaps Apple will release “TruRay” at Mac World, (large capacity discs authorable in DSP and payable on BluRay players but priced for the rest of us.) LOL …..I’ll settle for DSP 5 for bluray authoring.
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