-
Migration from Cinewave to AJA?
I recently learned that our three Pinnacle Cinewave cards have been discontinued and all support has ceased. We have them running on Dual-G4 towers. I am wondering what AJA products will give us comparable performance and features for our SD editing stations. For starters, looking for 4:2:2 SD, balanced analog audio in/out, SDI or AES digital audio in/out, component analog video in/out, SDI digital in/out..
-
6 Replies
-
AJA I/O.
bob Zelin
-
although be wary that the AJA io has a firewire lag (because it use firewire architecture), so that if you mark an in point it will be 4/5 frames behind where you want it. This doesnt bother some people but it is good to know. The one to go for is one of the AJA Kona card. All three have the specs you need.
As for customer support, the only time i needed it they sent me a new IO from USA to UK within a few days. Have a scroll through the posts and you will find that tech support is second to none. And they monitor this forum so you can speak to them directly through the cow.
regards
nick -
I read an article that said that the lag is solved by putting a 7-frame offset on the canvas window in FCP settings. But is still less than desirable in some way?
-
the playback offset is standard, and it takes 2 seconds to adjust this. You monitor your audio and video off the AJA I/O, not the MAC audio – no different than you did on the CineWave. The I/O is rock stable, and cheap !
It’s a great product, and will interface beautifully with the Kona 3, when you are ready to do HD (it allows you to upconvert any NTSC signal to HD).Bob Zelin
-
[Fongaboo] “I read an article that said that the lag is solved by putting a 7-frame offset on the canvas window in FCP settings. But is still less than desirable in some way?”
Down to a 5 frame offset now.
Tony!
-
Bob is right that you adjust the offset to the picture and sound out of the IO is in sync withe picture on the computer monitor, BUT the if you watch the waveform of a clip while listening to it out of the IO the souns is ahead of the waveform. Like i said some people dont mind this but if you are marking audio in/out points this can get annoying.
Dont get me wrong i love my IO (well the company’s) and it has been great for almost 2 years, but if i had to buy now i would get the Kona card.
god luck
nick
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up