AJA Kona LHI & Native XDCAM Ex

[Akbar Ukani]

LOL..as much sense as your post makes..I am one of those guys who just like to make things complicated =), but eventually thats what I am going to have to do…just utilize the software RAID functionality provided by Leopard in my Mac Pro and save a little bit of money to invest in the AJA card….Thank You

[Dave Jenkins]

I use the internal slots with 3 drives striped raid 0 and get around 200mb per second. We edit EXCAM HD & EX footage with the AJA Lhe and it works fine. You won’t get a lot of realtime once you start adding layers, effects and Motion files but it will playback EX files just fine.

Dajen Productions, Santa Barbara, CA
MacPro Two 2.8GHz Quad Core – AJA Kona LHe
FCP 6.0.4 OS X 10.5.5 QT 7.5.5

[Michael Allen]

What to you mean by this statement?

“Working NATIVE XDCAM is overrated, especially given the workflow you will have of delivering a DVD.”

What is difficult about “delivering a DVD” from XDCAM?

Mike

[Michael Allen]

I agree with Christopher. I am getting over 180 mb/s with two internal drives striped together. I have edited a few projects with the ProRes 422 codec with no problem. I also have a caldigit 8 drive HD one and I am shure that many with tell you a hardware raid is much better, however if you are on a budget and want fast drives with wiill work with most codecs short of uncompressed, strip your internal drives and problem solved for free99. I do concur with Christopher

Mike