AJA Io HD

[David Battistella]

Wild!

What’s it going to retail at?

David

Peace and Love 🙂

[Jeremy Newmark]

It sounds like retail price is $3495, available in July.

[Mark Burton]

I wonder if it will still have the inherent delay associated with FW connected boxes?

[Andy Edwards]

Maybe that is why it has FW800 vs. FW400. HDMI on the box could be the new input output as well.

Andy

[Larry Asbell]

[walter biscardi] “Too cool! Essentially a Kona 3 in a box! “

Just what I was wondering. Then for a Mac tower user the Kona 3 is still the item? Is there anything that the I/O HD offers that a Kona 3 can’t do?

One thing is the HDMI in and out but that can be added outboard.

– Larry Asbell

[Kevin Wild]

Yes, the Kona3 can do uncompressed. This box cannot. It is firewire based so it must have a pretty decent compression to go real-time, from what I gather. I think that is why the new codec is built into the box.

What I do not know, is can it feed other codecs like DVC Pro HD through it? It seems not, as of now…

KW

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Larry Asbell] “Is there anything that the I/O HD offers that a Kona 3 can’t do? “

LTC in and out. Hopefully that means FCP can run in non controllable device mode, and be able to capture from a source (like a camera) without RS-422 or a deck. That would be way sweet and extremely useful. A truly portable capture station with ProRes. I could have used that over the past two days!

Jeremy

[Andy Edwards]

https://aja.com/html/products_Io_IoHD.html

Andy

[Walter Biscardi]

[Kevin Wild] “Yes, the Kona3 can do uncompressed. This box cannot. It is firewire based so it must have a pretty decent compression to go real-time, from what I gather. I think that is why the new codec is built into the box.”

That codec is NOT built into the box, it’s built into the new Final Cut Studio 6. It’s the new Apple ProRes 4:2:2 codec and it’s a gorgeous codec. Apple did a bunch of split screens and from the second row of the audience I could not really tell the difference between 10bit Uncompressed HD and the ProRes 4:2:2 but some folks sitting a little further back though they could see some difference.

I’ll have to play with that codec vs. DVCPro HD when I can. But holy smokes, what a great little box and we give it props for the flashing light quotient.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
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[Kevin Wild]

Walter, unless I’m wrong, the codec is built into the box.

“Io HD is the only device in the world that supports Apple