PP CS6 and Kona Lhi?

[David Jahns]

We bought all of our LHe cards in 2007 or 2008 when we made the leap to FCP HD. I’m not terribly upset that we have to replace 4-5 year old cards. However, if I had purchased it last year, before the LHe”plus” – then I’d be pretty pissed off and asking for an upgrade to the plus or LHi version.

We’ve also got 4 or 5 old Mac Pros to replace sometime, so we’re still not sure of the hardware plan. Awfully tired of waiting on Apple…

As it is, we might just go with some iMacs and thunderbolt T-taps. We could build 5 complete edit systems for less than $15k. I tested the iMac and CS6 with an AJA ioXT, and it’s pretty damn solid – and the iMac does most things almost as fast as my 12-core MacPro. (Not as fast as with a CUDA card, but we’re also using Avid more and more now, so the iMac & $250 T-tap might be a great option for us.

David Jahns
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Joint Editorial
Portland, OR

[Chris Borjis]

I’d almost be curious enough to try extracting the driver for
cs 6 and the LHe Plus and just TRY it on my LHe….

just to see what happens.

[Erik Mickelson]

I’m not beyond that. Firmware update it, hack the kext, in business. Hmmm…I have an EOL Lhe that is worth maybe $80…what to do

CrippleBook Pro 2.3Ghz i7, 16GB ram, Lion 10.7.3, FCPStudio 3, QT 7

[David Jahns]

I’m not much of a hacker, but I encourage you to do it! And share the results with us!

If you can get it work on with Avid MC6, too – hell, you’d be a hero! I’ll be you drinks at NAB next year! And we can go to the AJA booth and say “Long live the LHe! IN YOUR FACE, AJA!” 😉

David Jahns
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Joint Editorial
Portland, OR

[Erik Mickelson]

And then we’ll get on our BMX bikes and hit some jumps!

CrippleBook Pro 2.3Ghz i7, 16GB ram, Lion 10.7.3, FCPStudio 3, QT 7

[Cade Muhlig]

I wish the download link under the “coming soon” sign would work.

[Brian Tario]

I’m also stuck upgrading an LHe. I’m trying to decide between the BMD DeckLink HD Extreme 3D and the Matrox MXO2 LE. AJA seems to have priced themselves out of the equation. I like the BMD card for what appears to be great bang for the buck, but I like the idea of being portable with the Matrox (MBP on-site and MacPro at work). What are y’all gonna do to replace your LHe’s? I don’t want to buy a new computer just yet.

[David Jahns]

Yeah – we don’t know yet, either. Still too much undecided yet – pretty much depends on a Mac Pro or some equivalent. We’ve got 4 or 5 systems that are due for an upgrade.

I’ve been doing some tests with new iMacs and an AJA ioXT Thunderbolt device. It’s an entirely valid workstation option, I think. It bogs down trying to do Red native, but for most formats, it seems great – in Avid 6 and CS6 (although the AJA drivers for CS6 aren;t out yet, so I couldn’t test that.

I’m awfully tempted to go with BlackMagic for the Resolve compatibility…

We’re even considering going PC for Avid/CS6… Too many questions can’t be answered until we either get a new High end box from Apple, or we give up on that and go with iMacs or PCs…

David Jahns
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Joint Editorial
Portland, OR

[Chris Borjis]

I’m looking at replacing my LHe with a black magic Decklink Studio, but
I might need 2k/4k to 1080 monitoring the way the Kona 3 does for feature editing.