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will kona work with new imac?
is it possible to get the new imacs to work with a kona card to capture digibeat through sdi or am i asking too much? and also HDCAM asking a lot more?. This will be straightforward editing with no effects?
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No, the AJA Kona card is an internal card that is only made for the Mac Pros.
You can purchase an AJA IoHD to work with the new iMac. It supports the flavors of ProRes, no Uncompressed. If you want to go Uncompressed, you’ll require a Mac Pro.
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thanks, yea ive seen those AJA IoHD boxes, i was suprised how light it was, im sure it works fine but for some reason id feel more comfortable if it had a bit of weight to it.
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[Emmet Reddy] “im sure it works fine but for some reason id feel more comfortable if it had a bit of weight to it. “
Until you had to drag it arounf with you everywhere you go! 🙂
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[Emmet Reddy] “thanks, yea ive seen those AJA IoHD boxes, i was suprised how light it was, im sure it works fine but for some reason id feel more comfortable if it had a bit of weight to it.
Cheers Emmet “You’ve picked them up? I think they’re 5 pounds or so. Pretty beefy boxes.
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Emmet –
you know they have a SPECIAL AJA I/O HD box, that weighs 60 pounds, and costs $12,000. It’s much better quality than the regular I/O HD boxes, but only SPECIAL people can get one – and you are one of those people. Garchow-Biscardi-Zelin video sales can get you one, but just don’t tell anyone – it’s a secret.Bob Zelin
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We all agreed NEVER to post ANY information about this on the web. NEVER!
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Crap. There goes the NDA. Better call an attorney.
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Emmet, just bolt the IO/HD on top of your battery box. If you have to go to a shoot instead of a suite sometime, all the handles and hardware will already be in the familiar places.
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Sorry, but the IOHD won’t work with the iMac. Why? Sure, you have the firewire connection for it, but then what do you use for video storage? USB doesn’t work for video…not a good sustained throughput. And the firewire bus…the ONLY firewire bus, is taken by the IOHD. So you can’t use firewire. And you have zero expansion so no additional FW busses can be added, nor eSATA, MiniSAS, Fibrechannel. And you can’t capture ProRes to your system drive.
Sooooo…
No external capture devices work on the iMac for capturing SDI or analog high end video. The iMac is a consumer computer, and it is fine for DV and HDV…but not Digibeta or ProRes.
As for not trusting the IOHD because it isn’t HEAVY enough? Very odd statement. I just used it to upconvert a boatload of beta and digitbeta tapes to ProRes HD for a special on JFK that will air on NatGeo on the 22nd of this month. THE ENTIRE SHOW was SD upconverted to HD. I took my laptop and the IOHD and a Caldigit VR with me to Dallas to do the online remotely, as there were LOTS of tapes involved.
And FYI, the Matrox MXO2 is lighter than the IOHD, and is also a rather good capture device. Won’t connect to an iMac though.
Forget the iMac…get a MacBook pro. Then you can have either the Matrox MXO2, MXO2 LE or IOHD to connect.
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[Shane Ross] “No external capture devices work on the iMac for capturing SDI or analog high end video. The iMac is a consumer computer, and it is fine for DV and HDV…but not Digibeta or ProRes.
“Sorry, but we’re using them for ProRes every single day and will shortly have four edit workstations all built around the 27″ iMac. How? High speed ethernet SAN. Works like a dream. 720p and 1080 ProRes all day, everyday.
The iMac is not a consumer machine anymore with the introduction of Ethernet SAN. In fact it just rocks with 92 hours of 720p material for our current documentary.
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