ProRes acquisition?

[Graeme Nattress]

Well, ProRes is 10bit for starters, anf full raster for seconds, rather than the crippled 1280 instead of 1920 that DVCProHD offers. If you’re going straight from a camera capable of 10bit out, I’d suggest that ProRes to an IOHD would be utterly superb and the next best thing to Uncompressed 10bit, and probably better for color correction than Uncompressed 8bit.

Graeme

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[Ben Holmes]

Absolutely. Any camera with HDSDI output, DVCProHD or otherwise, can be captured in the field with a laptop and an IO-HD, as long as you can live with a cable. This ought to look great. Don’t forget you also have the option with some HDV cameras to use the IO-HD to capture ProRes via the HDMI connection, again allowing you to avoid the HDV compressed stream. Can’t wait to see how that pans out.

Ben

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[Gary Adcock]

[Ben Holmes] “Don’t forget you also have the option with some HDV cameras to use the IO-HD to capture ProRes via the HDMI connection, again allowing you to avoid the HDV compressed stream. “

Don’t forget it has component in also, so every option but Dual Link is now covered.

gary adcock
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[Sean Oneil]

I just found this thing:
https://www.mobl.com/expansion/products/expresscard_expansion/index.html

Think about it. You just buy that thing, throw a Kona or Decklink in it, and plug it into the Expresscard slot on a MacBook Pro. Bam. ProRes capture in the field. No IO required.

[Ben Holmes]

Wow. There’s a 4-slot version of this thing. Interesting to see what you can actually do with an expresscard interface…

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[Gary Adcock]

[Sean ONeil] ”
Think about it. You just buy that thing, throw a Kona or Decklink in it, and plug it into the Expresscard slot on a MacBook Pro. Bam. ProRes capture in the field. No IO required.
“

except that it is PCI only not PCIE or PCIx

so those cards will not work. (sorry I tried it)

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[Ben Holmes]

Ah yes. Reread product page. Confusing as it mentions PCI-Express technology, but only PCI cards.

Why can’t you make a version of this product that supports PCI-E? I thought that Expresscard gave you access to the full bandwidth of the PCI bus? Presumably the bus in a MBP is not as wide as the Mac Pro. Is it possible for one card only to work – like an older Kona 2?

Ben

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[Sean Oneil]

I posted the wrong link. They actually do have a 16x lane PCI Express version.

https://www.mobl.com/expansion/products/expressbox1/expressbox1.html

NOT to good to be true.

[Ben Holmes]

https://www.magma.com/products/pciexpress/expressbox1/

Just launched as well. I will repost this above – I think we may consider this product at some point.

Ben

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[Jerry Hofmann]

I don’t understand the elation… if you buy the magama and then buy a Kona 3, wouldn’t it be more expensive than an Io HD in the first place? Course, if you already own a Kona 3, I can see where it might be cheaper, but it would also involve tearing apart your system to work with it…. 3 days down with the ‘home’ system would cost more than an Io HD… So even that scenario doesn’t really make sense.

I’d rather go with the Io and forget tearing apart a system, and thus keeping it from working while you shoot etc… Let alone the possibility of frying a card moving it back and forth. Not only that, the io HD will releave the CPU from doing the compression to Pro Res… I’m not sure that a laptop can manage the compression on the fly by itself… at NAB we were told that it would only work with intel macs, and Apple hasn’t posted any minimum spec on capturing to pro res… it’s nowhere to be seen on the specs page of Studio 2… I think we’ll have to stay tuned for that one.

Jerry

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