IOHD and hdv

[Michael Sacci]

You are hitting your head again the wall. Just because a wrong system works sometimes doesn’t mean it should work all of the time.

HDV is heavy on the processor. So everything you do to strain the system the more problem you are going to get.

Having unrendered HDV clips in a ProRes timeline, the computer is still processing HDV, and not ProRes, while it may help it is not a solution. The one this I would try would be to move the clips to an external HD and connect it via a USB port. While USB is not recommended for video, HDV is so light of a load it would probably be okay. This gets the footage off the system drive and doesn’t load the FW bus taken up by Io.

FWIW – Your system is not under spec for HDV, it is underspec for IoHD in general. When I was using a system like that I had issues all the time, and I was working with either ProRes or DVCProHD.

[Jeff Mack]

loud and clear. Just finished the edit so now I’ll render and go to external where I can add graphics etc. Is it the 2.16 GHz processor that’s underspec? Because I thought the MBP was meant to be part of the IOHD workflow. Consider the thread closed. I was just happy to monitor the HDV w/u rendering, that’s all.

Thanks all.

Jeff

[Jeremy Garchow]

Look at the long blue bar on the right side of the page:

https://www.aja.com/support/io/io-hd-documents.php