CC 2017 Mac Intel Tower Reviews

[John Pale]

I found performance with AJA intolerable. Lots of issues. I switched to a Blackmagic card and things are much better.

Odd, since, I also use Avid and FCP (for revisiting old projects) and I think AJA was better for those NLE’s.

[Rich Rubasch]

Curious which AJA product. We are running all LHi’s in our Mac towers and they have been flawless while our Blackmagic 4K card has been fussy. We upgraded all our video cards for more Vram and processing power on the GPU. That helped along with an SSD PCI boot up drive.

But AJA has been solid for years, no matter the OS or editing software.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com

[John Pale]

Had the Kona LHe Plus (the newer model, not the old unsupported one). I also work at a place that has an AJA iO 4K, and its pretty lousy with Premiere, too.

Not a real fan of BMD overall, but I needed something that works.

[Karel Voners]

I don’t have aja cards, but tried CC2017 on OSX 10.12. It crashed two times in under an hour…

[Marcus Taylor]

I tried using a new Kona Card which was meant to display 4K. Now our project is unique in that we want to play 60fps, and also work with 4K. The result was a choppy playback all the time.

We gave up using PP CC with the AJA card and opted to view our VR material via more graphics cards inside our PC. Nvidia graphics cards.

Plus we maxed out the RAM and used SSDs. Playback is still not as fluid as an AVID – but there again this is 4K.

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[Steve Holyhead]

Hey Rich,
As long as you are on a bona fide Intel based tower with PCIe slots, then the latest AJA driver (12.5.1) will support KONA 4, KONA 3G, KONA LHi and KONA LHe plus, across:
Mac OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks), 10.10 (Yosemite), 10.11.x (El Capitan) and 10.12.x (Sierra).

For Adobe AJA supports:
Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015, 2017 • Adobe After Effects CC 2015, 2017 • Adobe Photoshop CC 2015, 2017 • Adobe Prelude CC 2015, 2017 • Adobe Audition CC 2015, 2017

Of course, if you run into any issues at all – please be in touch with AJA tech support.
AJA support is free and if you call during business hours PT – you will get a real, live and knowledge human being on the phone ☺
https://www.aja.com/support/contact
Cheers,
Steve…

Steve Holyhead
Sr. Product Manager
AJA Video Systems

[Steve Holyhead]

Hi Marcus,
I am sorry to hear you have had problems – especially since the KONA 4 is completely capable of delivery 4K P60.
I am curious if you contacted support? We would love to help!
AJA support is free and if you call during business hours PT (8am to 5pm) – you will get a real, live and knowledge human being on the phone.
https://www.aja.com/support/contact
Cheers,
Steve…

Steve Holyhead
Sr. Product Manager
AJA Video Systems