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Inform me please
Hi , I am just migrigating over to Mac and FCP from another “A”nle. Starting out with a new powerbook and someday maybe a G5. Right now I will just be capturing dv via a deck with firewire output. What do these AJA devices do for your system if you are using firewire? It looks to me like they are more for capturing different sources. So my question, would it benifit me at all right now .
thanks allTom
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Tom:
You are correct. Aja products are for capturing from sources other than DV such as analog audio and video, SDI (Serial Digital Interface), as well as digital audio.use my AJA Io to:
*capture and output from and to analog sources such as Betacam SP, VHS, and Hi-8. It provides RS-422 control of my Betacam deck.
*output to my DVD recorder for quick client review copies
*to feed analog signals to my NTSC monitor, waveform monitor, and vector scope.
*capture digital audio from my portable DAT recorder.I could also use it to:
*capture and output SDI from and to Digital Betacam or any other SDI source.The Io uses firewire to transfer the digitally encoded analog signals to your Mac. It does not accept firewire input and you cannot have the Io and a firewire DV device connected at the same time. I had to purchase a Firewire A/B switch to switch between Io and my DVCam deck.
The Kona line uses a card slot and does not interfere with firewire capture from your DV source.
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…or you can use a firewire card. I route the dv dck through one of my drives and the IO off the Firewire card. Works great. It is a really good online tool
nick
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I surprised that it works because AJA states on their FAQ that:
“With Io and a G4/G5 computer, you cannot have two FireWire video devices (we’re not talking about storage devices) connected at the same time. Doing so causes driver conflicts. Unfortunately, even installing a PC FireWire interface card will not help with this; the only solution is using an external FireWire A/B switch to select a single device at a time.”
I’m going to give it a try as the A/B switch is inconvenient at best. You have to exit FCP to make the switch or the application may crash.
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Most people i have spoken too says this works. i think AJA are just covering their behinds…
nick
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I tried it, connecting the Io to the internal Firewire bus and my DV deck to a Firewire PCI card. I got an error message about driver conflicts when I tried to load an Io setup. I reversed the connections and it would not recognize the Io’s video. Perhaps it has to do with my Prolific PL3507 Firewire PCI card.
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I have my AJA IoLA box hooked up to one of the firewire ports on the mac, and my DSR-1500 deck hooked up via firewire to a Sonnet Allegro FW400 PCI card, and have had no problems. I’m using v. 2.1 of the IoLA driver.
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