Hooking up different formats to Io-HD

[Forrest Burger]

Gary,

I find this very interesting, indeed. Does this mean the io HD works differently than the io LA? We are controlling a Sony HVR M10U with a firewire card while the io LA is being controlled through the internal firewire 400 port on a G5. Video is injested through component cables.

Thanks for your input here…as many of us move to the io HD there are definately some things we need to gear up for.

Forrest

[Tim Allison]

Well Forrest,

We’re going to get the Io-HD anyway. I’m going to hook up our M25U with the HDMI out going to the Io, and the machine control Firewire cable going to another PCI Firewire card.

And we’ll just see what happens.

[Forrest Burger]

Sounds similar to my situation, Tim. I have an io HD on order and will try to use the HDMI/firewire route you’re talking about.

The following is interesting, though…it’s from Sony’s press release about a new HDV deck coming in February.

The HVR-M35U record and playback deck is compatible with HDV native progressive recording modes and supports HD/SD-SDI output with embedded audio and timecode data. It has a 60i/50i switchable function, and supports HDV1080i (60i/50i/24p/30p/25p) and DVCAM/DV (60i/50i).

My question is, if it supports HD/SD-SDI out would that mean RS-422 control as well?

Forrest

[James Nicholls]

I too will be very interested in your experiences with firewire decks. I have three I am looking at right now. A DSR 11, HVRM25P (HDV) and DSR 40P. The 40P has a restricted RS422 capability but the others dont. The IO HD’s purported conflict with these VCR’s firewire control is a showstopper for me at this stage and I believe effectively restricts this unit to higher end facilities.