Question about AJA and Leopard.

[Walter Biscardi]

[Danrnw] “Will this be the place to see when AJA posts
information about compatibility and/or new drivers for Leopard?”

Yep, there will be a press release from AJA when they are ready. Note that Apple has not released any updates to Studio 2 and Adobe has already announced that After Effects will not be compatible until December.

I’m sure AJA will wait until Apple’s Studio updates before releasing their drivers.

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[Bob Zelin]

to summarize, if you are a new owner of AJA equipment, and you have a MAC Pro that is setup for Leopard, and not an older OS, you will have a LONG WAIT before you use your system – you will need Leopard drivers for your disk drive host card, FCP2, and the AJA stuff. If you had bought ANY OTHER PRODUCT, you would have the same inconvenience.

Bob Zelin

[Bob Zelin]

to summarize, if you are a new owner of AJA equipment, and you have a MAC Pro that is setup for Leopard, and not an older OS, you will have a LONG WAIT before you use your system – you will need Leopard drivers for your disk drive host card, FCP2, and the AJA stuff. If you had bought ANY OTHER PRODUCT, you would have the same inconvenience.

Bob Zelin

[Dan Riley]

No, you misunderstood. I’ve had my setup for the past 30 days. (used to be
Aurora Pipe Studio etc. etc.)
I’m fully aware of the issues related to waiting for new FCP versions and driver
updates to go along with OS and Quicktime changes.
My question was only in regard to the best place to find the info about
when the new stuff is available from AJA. I’ve also got an email out to Sonnet
with respect to their RAID system we have, the D800, which uses an ATTO card.

Thanks,
Dan

[Walter Biscardi]

[Danrnw] “I’ve also got an email out to Sonnet
with respect to their RAID system we have, the D800, which uses an ATTO card.”

Atto has released a driver for Leopard. I received an email from them the day Leopard was released as I own two Atto R380 cards.

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[Dan Riley]

Thanks Walter.
I guess I’m not on right email lists yet for either Sonnet or ATTO.
I’ll check into that.

Dan

[Michael Sacci]

AJA normally post Press Releases on this board. It is a good place to keep eye on.

[Aja Sales department]

Hi,

You can always check our software support area of our website for the latest information:

https://www.aja.com/html/support_kona3_swd.html

…or for all KONA and Io products, check here:

https://www.aja.com/html/support_swd.html

Thank you,

—
AJA Video Systems
+1 (530) 274-2048 Intl.
(800) 251-4224 US
sales@aja.com

[Dan Riley]

Thanks. I’ll bookmark the link.
It’s not like I’m in an all-fire hurry or anything, I was just wonderin.
I have to say however, my KONA 3 works very nicely.
I’m very happy with how FCS2 and your card work together.
I’m a recent HD upgrader from the SD world with Aurora stuff.
35 years in the broadcast biz, so not worried about how long updates take.
It took RCA years to go from Low Band to Hi Band 2inch Quad machines.
Then they tried to make a machine that would lock up in
2 seconds like Ampex. A weird machine called the TR-600 with flying arms
for tape guides. Have I lost almost all of the readers on the forum by now 🙂
You haven’t really edited until you’ve tried to move 2 inch tape around on
20 pound reels.

Later,
Dan

[Mark Maness]

Amen, Brother!

I think there are alot of folks here that have never experienced a linear editing system. I have to admit that I didn’t get to experience 2 inch.

But I did work for a PBS station in the middle eighties that had top load JVC 3/4″ decks, a Sony mixer that one had one effect bank, a Microgen CG, and an RM 440 editor. A-B roll editing meant that you had to push play on both machines and flip the bar on the switcher to dissolve between the two and you had to have someone running the Shure field mixer for audio edits.

So, I do know a thing or two about the good ole days.

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