KiPro and MXF

[Richard Wirth]

Don’t know if any of you are still checking this thread.

I’m going to throw in my 2 pennies and mention the Black Magic Design Hyperdeck. It does a pretty fair job with MXF files (recording and playing back). However, there is still no Psf playback capability so laying off to tape for archiving is cumbersome with needing to convert. Also, I’ve been having a lot of problems with their Pro model identifying timecodes properly. They just shipped me a replacement on an RMA and it is even worse than the first one.

We went with them because we liked the idea of non-proprietary drives.

I’ve been looking at KiPro Rack but I’m curious to know if anyone has any experience with both units. I’d like to get a fair comparison so I can avoid jumping out of the frying pan into the fire.

[Herb Sevush]

[Richard Wirth] “I’ve been looking at KiPro Rack but I’m curious to know if anyone has any experience with both units. I’d like to get a fair comparison so I can avoid jumping out of the frying pan into the fire.”

We’ve been using the KiPro extensively in a studio configuration for 3 years – 5 camera studio shoots for PBS cooking shows. They work flawlessly.

They are also the only recorder that comes with control software so that an operator can specify clip names with extensive meta data simultaneously for multiple recorders and control those recorders remotely all from a single computer. I can’t imagine working in a studio without this type of setup and AJA is the only company that has it.

While I would like the option to record to MXF DNxHD, I would not give up the control software to get it. When you’re creating hundreds and sometimes thousands of clips, having meaningful and unique clip names instead of “SJGMXS003468MNJ” is fantastic.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Nick Palm]

Not to bring this forum back from the dead, but the cinedecks seem to not have a problem with DNxHD in MXF Wrappers, which is usually what we use to record our big multicam shows. We used a different company this time around, and they used kipro’s, and I agree that re-wrapping the .mov files is a time consuming PITA. And Avid AMA is not the answer here, especially when we’re talking about a 15 stream show at DNX 145.

We are doing a build-out soon and I was lucky to get the inside scoop that KiPro’s were being considered.

Looking to see if anyone knows of any devices other than the cinedeck that will wrap DNxHD as MXF.