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AJA IO HD A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS
Hi,
I am getting into investing into a viable monitoring/capturing device, since my MATROX MXO doesn’t cut it for me no more – plenty of issues I won’t be getting into right now. I laid my eyes upon AJA IOHD But before paying big bucks I want to make sure of a couple of things:
1. Is AJA IOHD is very reliable for printing to digi beta via SDI?
2. 90 percent of all my footage is on DVCPROHD, do I get any hardware acceleration when using AJA IOHD with my P2/DVCPROHD setup….or not?
3. I will be doing my grading in APPLE COLOR, does AJA IOHD gurantee me realtime monitoring in hd or sd – downconverted footage on the fly – since I can’t yet afford a good hd monitor… I work on macintel 2,66ghz, 4gbRAM, ati radeon 1900xt….Will I have a reliable monitoring solution in sd when using AJA IOHD…soon I will upgrade to hd…but that didn’t happen yet…Thanks for the input
Drazen
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16 Replies
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1) Yes. SDI and rs422. No worries.
2) No. What computer are you planning on hooking this up to? I will have more comments after that.
3) As of right now, Color does not support HD monitoring over firewire, only SD. So, you are in luck with SD stuff.
Jeremy
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Jeremy,
An interesting caveat to your comments about DVCProHD.
When FCS has control of my ‘fresh out of the cellophane’ IoHD its control panel reports that its framebuffer is in DVCProHD native mode. As soon as I make the control panel the front application, the framebuffer reverts to ProRes.
As it’s prores I’m after and don’t use DVCProDH at all I’m trying to get to the bottom of this with AJA support.
Alan in PALland
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[Alan Lacey] “When FCS has control of my ‘fresh out of the cellophane’ IoHD its control panel reports that its framebuffer is in DVCProHD native mode.”
you say that you are working in ProRes,
but this sounds like you are using converted from DVCPROHD native original (960×720) rather than captured ProRes content.
gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows
Inside look at the IoHD -
I agree with Gary.
It sounds like you are in a DVCPro HD easy setup from within FCP.
When you switch back to the control panel, the frame buffer is now expecting and sending ProRes.
Jeremy
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Hi everyone,
Thanks for the input and for clarifying a couple of stuff for me…
best regards
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Drazen-
What kind of computer are you planning to hook this up to?
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Jeremy hi,
I plan to hook it up into desktop macpro intel, 2,66ghz, 4gb ram, ati radeoon 1900xt, might be upgrading some ram if I realise apple color is getting hungrier than I first thought…
Best regards
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Cool. What kind of storage?
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Hi,
Concerning storage I have plenty of internal disk 2tb, made myself an internal software raid…external a bunch of fw800 from g-raid and a fast raid storage that reaches about 450mb/s read write in raid 5/0…got 2tb of those and use for high end work….
best regards
Drazen
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You should be good with the faster raids.
Let us know if you have anymore questions.
Jeremy
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