IO and the MacBook Pro

[Tony! Hulette]

[Christopher Wright] “This may have been covered before, but does the new Intel 17″ dual MacBook Pro work with the IO??”

Yes, it has been covered and a search will provide you with more details. The short answer is yes it works.

[Christopher Wright] “It should have fast enough processors and enough RAM….”

To do what? You’ll need an external drive run off of a card, not your built-in Mac ports (like Firewire), to do dv. If you want to do uncompressed 8/10 bit video, then you’ll need an external SATA RAID using a two port SATA card – https://www.firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-2sm2-e/

If you have any specific questions about setup, etc., ask us, or check with AJA.

Tony!

[Jeremy Garchow]

I’ve used an io with a Powerbook and 8Bit Uncompressed SD. I can’t imagine the MacBooks got any slower.

Jeremy

[Christopher Wright]

Thanks guys! I guess I’m just getting greedy. I already share my IO with an older dual G4 and my Dual 2.5 G5, and am mainly getting the Mac Book Pro to help archive P2 footage from my HVX-200 while in the field. So do you think doing 8-bit uncompressed using the firewire 800 port for the new Lacie 1TB D2 Extreme drive, and the IO on the Firewire 400 slot would conflict?? It would be awesome if it would work for my smaller 8 bit projects..

[Tony! Hulette]

[Christopher Wright] “So do you think doing 8-bit uncompressed using the firewire 800 port for the new Lacie 1TB D2 Extreme drive, and the IO on the Firewire 400 slot would conflict??”

Yes, that would be a problem. The Io needs the whole Firewire bus. You have to get a Firewire card (or SATA = better) for whatever Mac you want to run the Io on with an external drive(including the Macbook).

Tony!w

[Minhvfc]

wierd eh? I have no doubt that you guys here are very experience.Thing is Im capturing component 8 bits as i type, on a MBP 17 inch w 2G ram, on to a Lacie 1t d2 bigger disk, through an AJA IO LA, using the onboard firewire 800 and 400.Any explanation?I haveny experience any dropped frame yet.Its a 60 mins limit capture time setting and Im using FCP 5.1 universal binary.thanks.