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HD video capture card
All,
We are converting/upgrading our final Cut system to HD.
A few questions:
What Video Card (capture -ouput) for Final Cut and HD do you recomend. Hardware acceleration and Real time effects are a plus.
What can we output HD to for now? Blue Ray?
Has anyone had experience with Blackmagic? Aja?
We are probably going to upgrade Final Cut proHD 4.5 to Studio Pro 2 (fc 6)Any advice appreicated – details below…
It’s been a long time since I’ve been on but now I have a question that I need some advice on. I work in production at the CBS affiliate in Buffalo, NY. We do various station projects that include stuff for air and stuff that is for corporate use. Our station is finally upgrading to HD and I need to know what video capture card you guys reccomend.
We’re doing the upgrade in stages. We shoot on the Sony XD 530 cameras. We will be using them in the 16×9 mode for the first year and convert to real HD camers in another stage.
The first stage they want to do is editing. We are still on Final cut pro HD 4.5 because we still use the targa cinewave card and breakout box to input to our Macs. We have Dual 2 Ghz Power PC G5’s with 1 GB DDR SDRAM. We have three edit set-ups connected via fiber optic cable to a small server(4 TB). A larger server and back-up system is on the list for upgrades as well. Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
We still output to beta or DVD recorder and then go to a clip server that fibers stuff out of state and back. We use several input souces for material(XD disk, beta tape, the internet, some s-video souces, and occasionally DV camcorders via firewire. We need to be able to incorporate those as part of the system because for a year or two we will be doing standard definition and HD projects.
Is there a card that can handle all those types of input types? I do realize you can’t convert the standard signal to HD but I still need to be able to do standard def projects as well.
I know we have to upgrade Final cut, the RAM, and get a new capture card but need some help as to which ones are capable and dependable. Is it possible -
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Kona 3 from AJA is my recommendation along with a new Dual Quad Core Mac. We’ve had extensive experience with AJA (all good) and considerable experience with Black Magic (less than stellar and their tech support is very, very understaffed).
We’ve released about 70 hours of HD programming, 50 or so hours all cut on Kona cards and again…their tech support is the best!!
Good luck…jw
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Thanks for the recommendation. The Kona 3 doesn’t seem to have any analog inputs though. We’ll look for the one that does.
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[Roy Schrodt] “Is there a card that can handle all those types of input types? I do realize you can’t convert the standard signal to HD but I still need to be able to do standard def projects as well.”
Sure you can. AJA Kona 3 does Up / Down / Cross Conversion of all footage. We use these features all the time.
If you need Analog inputs, simply purchase an HD10AVA converter box. This takes analog audio and Component video and converts it to HD-SDI for input into the Kona 3. We use one of these on our HDV deck to feed the component / audio out of that to the K3.
The AJA Kona LHe will give you the analog inputs, but you will NOT get any sort of SD to HD Upconversion or the 720-1080 Cross Conversion.
Hands down, AJA Konas are the best cards in the business.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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Thanks for the help.
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