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AJA io HD Ad Reality Check: HD on laptop
“A view from your edit suite” is the headline; the picture is the clouds outside the window seat on a jet.
The current ad for the AJA io HD implies that you can edit HD with ProRes422 on the airplane: just hook up the io HD to MacBook Pro, and you’re in business.
oookay. This is just advertising, right? I’m having a hard enough time with my AJA LHe/Mac Pro/3 drive RAID.
Bob C
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Well, if your MacBook Pro battery is good, and you get an Anton Bauer battery for the MXO 2 (not I/O HD…that is AJA)…it works with Anton Bauer batteries. But then the hard drive…that will require power. I mean, you can TRY the G-Raid Mini…it MIGHT work for ProRes, but then it will eat the MacBook Pro battery power as well. Might get an hour to an hour and a half.
But where will you put it? The seat next to you? Not on that tray. And NOWHERE if you are in coach.
marketing people like to…embellish.
Shane
GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
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You stick your FW drive on the lap of the fat guy next to you who’s fallen asleep on your shoulder, drooling quielty to himself. Brushing pretzel dust from your keyboard as the brat in the front seat reclines for the umpteenth time, spilling cheap Chardonnay in to your laptop bag – virtually guaranteeing a tap on the shoulder from the guy with the rubber gloves as you pass through immigration. Welcome to your office…
In all seriousness, they do like to embellish somewhat – but we had the chaps from Matrox come down to WeFCPUG the other day and the MXO2 looks like a genuinely well thought out and well engineered bit of kit. They seem to be thoroughly committed to the product and excited about future possibilities; I think they will give AJA a serious run for their money.
Jason
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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[Jason Porthouse] “In all seriousness, they do like to embellish somewhat.. “
Really???
You mean Not until they seriously look at working on location. With connections sticking out of 3 sides of the MXO2 and relegating all laptop users to only Firewire storage- maybe because their connection requires the xpress slot on your laptop, or
most of all
The MXO2 can only capture to 8bit DVCPROHD on a laptop – there is NO ProRes capture on a laptop – Matrox themselves admits then need at least 3 CPU Cores on a laptop on their user forum –
so what good is capturing content that is NO Better than what your camera can do internallyCheaper is not always a better deal. Get hardware that works.
gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production WorkflowsInside look at the IoHD
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Here’s another one for you…
Sony has an ad that I saw recently saying that Outdoor Channel has a new house format: XDCAM HD.
That’s funny… we’ve been using it for the past two years and they still do not accept XDCAM or XDCAM HD as an airing format. AND…. the shows that use it are not owned by the Outdoor Channel except for our show that we produce for them.
The ad makes it seem like the show “Spear Gun Hunter” and a new program called “Savage Wild” is owned by the Outdoor Channel. As far as I know, they are not. BUT the show we produce for them is mostly shot on XDCAM HD.
Funny how things work with marketing people…
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
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Guys
When you’re done jumping all over Matrox’s new “A View From Your Edit Suite” just bear in mind that it doesn’t exist … the ad I mean. The “A View From Your Edit Suite” ad is for the AJA Io HD.
Andy
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[Andy Mees] “The “A View From Your Edit Suite” ad is for the AJA Io HD.”
Well, that doesn’t matter. Just as improbable. Well, MORE so. That unit needs a wall socket.
Nice try marketing.
Shane
GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
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>[gary adcock] “Cheaper is not always a better deal. Get hardware that works.”
Even better, do your research, buy the product that best suits your own specific needs.
Cheaper is not always a better deal but sometimes it can be.
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[Wayne Carey] “Sony has an ad that I saw recently saying that Outdoor Channel has a new house format: XDCAM HD.
That’s funny… we’ve been using it for the past two years and they still do not accept XDCAM or XDCAM HD as an airing format.”
what’s even more funny is the TV series I worked on last year for Outdoor Channel
ALL came from XDCAM captured as DVCPRO-HD and nothing got rejected! -
so you can’t capture prores on a macbook over the aja I/O then?
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[Shane Ross] “Well, that doesn’t matter. Just as improbable. Well, MORE so. That unit needs a wall socket.”
This is why you need to talk your producers into flying you business class. So that you’ll have that AC power and the space to let you put all of that travel time to work!
Arnie
Post production is not an afterthought!
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