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What do I purchase?
I also posted this on the AJA board.
I have been thrown the task to build a new box for the company. It needs to be done sooner than later so waiting for the Intel Power Macs is not an option.
Basically they are asking for a FCS box that will continue to ingest SD footage from a DVW-A500 for cutting promos but also to be used as HD suite with Client Comforts i.e. outputting to a HD monitor hanging on the wall while serving bacon wrapped scallops. There really is no budget but unnecessary spending is not recommended.
I would assume the G5 2.5 Quad with 4gb of ram is the starting point. I am interested in the Kona 3 but the way I understand it is that in order to output to the glam monitor I need on of the AJA SDI-DVI converters……correct? I am sure we will be dabbling with HDV as well so do I need another converter to ingest the HDV footage?
Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. I hate to mention it on this board but is the BMD Multibridge Extreme a viable option as well?
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As for the computer, great. As for the capture card, if you’re going to be doing nothing but digital then the Kona 3 is good, but if you’re going to need analog footage for any reason, and who doesn’t, then I would get the Kona LHe which will do both. Also get the FCP 5.1 as it will do any of the old and any of the new intel macs.
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