PP and AJA cards

[Tim Kolb]

The HS card was designed as an “OEM” card really…something that could be (relatively) inexpensively bundled with certain software and/or hardware to get HDSDI I/O on a system…

The HS card does NOT have:

HD analog component I/O
SD analog component or composite/YC I/O
Hardware HD to SD downconversion (I use this all the time)
Native support for DPX, Cineon, TGA, TIFF, BMP sequences
2 independent SDI/HD-SDI outputs (The HS card has only 1)
2-channel balanced XLR analog audio I/O
RS-422 machine control
AJA Machina software

For the money, I think the LH/LHe cards are a better return on investment for a general-purpose editing suite that may switch back and forth between SD/HD…uncompressed/compressed, etc…

In a very narrow application where you knew you’d always only need digital HD I/O…the HS would probably be fine.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

CPO, Digieffects

[Steven L. gotz]

I have an LHe card I won in a drawing that I have never used. I suppose I need to install it one of these day, huh?

Steven

https://www.stevengotz.com

[Tim Kolb]

[Steven L. Gotz] “I have an LHe card I won in a drawing that I have never used. I suppose I need to install it one of these day, huh?”

They are intensely useful tools…I use the matrix of inputs and outputs differently every day. Realtime downconvert to SD means I can edit in HD and send to my BVM SD reference monitor via SDI and use my SD scopes via analog to monitor what a downconvert will look like (most regional commercials still run in SD).

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

CPO, Digieffects