How good and reliable I/O is?

[Michael Garber]

I love mine. I even use it with my Kona 2. It’s been great and extremely reliable/frame accurate.

[Bob Zelin]

Perhaps you should consider an AVID Adrenaline. Check out some of the user forums, to see how responsive AVID is on their own bugs. Check out some of the complaints from users on these forums. Oh, the turnkey system with a HP xw8200 will be about $40,000, not including manditory AVID assurance, but that’s ok – you can afford it.

The AJA I/O is about $2000, with FREE support – but why do this – you don’t need the money for anything else, do you? You like spending $4000 for AVID annual Assurance, don’t you. You liked the fact that AVID won’t send you an Aladin or Genie 3D card unless you pay full price. You like the fact that if your ABVB card failed right now, they would be happy to sell you a replacement for $3000. Naah – forget the AJA I/O with free support and free software upgrades forever – you don’t want a piece of crap like that. And I know that you don’t want that money in your bank account. Buy the AVID product.

Bob Zelin

[Paul Harb]

I love your posts sometimes…..:) they really make me smile….

Paul

[Kim Rowley]

Mine has been on for 3 months (just switched from M100) and it is so transparent and bug free that I hardly remember it’s there. And that is working exclusively in 10 bit uncompressed… Not one complaint to date.

Dual 2.7 GHz G5, 4GB RAM, ATI Radeon 9650, Xserve RAID, AJA IO, 2 20″ Cinema Display, FCP 5.02, OS X10.4.2

[Steve Martin]

We got ours about 2 years ago have been really happy. Absolutely no complaints with the hardware and software integration with FCP. When you consider the price – I can honestly say this is a no brainer! Good luck!

Steve

Production is fun – but lets not forget: Nobody ever died on the video table!

[Alexander Serpico]

the only bug i experience is that it sometimes switches the analog/digital input…
(and this happens to a number of the ones i have)

otherwise, its great.

[Jason Kalinoski]

Unfortunately, we’ve had a little problem with our IO. After about a year of use, the composite input quit working. AJA imediately overnighted a replacement. 3 months later, the power supply seemed to die in the new unit. AJA imediately overnighted another replacement. This one has been humming along for 2 weeks, no problems…

So, although we seem to have had some bad luck, the awesome support had certainly made up for it. Whenever we move towards HD, I’m sure we’ll purchase a Kona 2, largely based on the support we’ve received.

Jason Kalinoski
Evolution Media
Tallahassee, FL

[Nick Price]

We use both an avid version 7 and FCP with the AJA IO, and both do thier job without fault (although i have to say the version 7 is SO solid… never ever had a problem…, but prefer working on a fcp). The only reservation you need to know about the AJA is the 4 frame lag, due to its firewire connection. It is well documented in this forum, and most/some people dont mind it, but if you are used to having the computer monitors/broadcast monitor and the speakers exactly in sync all the time the aja IO isnt for you. Get a pci card like the AJA kona or a decklink card and you will have a much more similar system to the version 7.

Enjoy the ease of fcp…..

nick

[Steve Covello]

Some things I like about Avid better than FCP 4.5/AJA IO:

[Duncan Craig]

I got what was probably the very first IO in the UK.

The Chroma siganl from the S-Video output socket had gone now, but it still runs everyday on a variety of formats.
Apart from occasionally having to switch extenal frames off and on again (takes 2 seconds) it’s a great bit of kit. Outputs Motion, Photoshop and After Effects too.

The delay through the IO is much better now, and is better than an Adrenaline (I’ve used them they are really sluggish)