Bob Zelin
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from a recent review on Claim Jumpers –
So let’s talk dessert. The desserts are, well, HUGE. Two people can easily share one. But our dilemma was that we needed to try a few for review purposes. But Claim Jumper comes to the rescue with a wonderful and creative resolution called the Eureka Sampler. For $15 we received a platter of six different desserts. We could have easily had two or three more people join the four of us for dessert. Every one of them was very good. But if you have to try the Chocolate Motherlode Cake you’ll just have to order it separately since it doesn’t come on the sampler platterREPLY – this goes very well with Multibridge Extreme, AND it’s in Tempe
Bob Zelin
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If it works, please go to Claim Jumpers near Arizona Mills, get the big piece of chocolate cake they keep in that display case (to celebrate), and report back on the Multibridge Extreme, and the cake.
Bob Zelin
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yes – this will work.
BUT, you can use a cheapo analog audio mixer just for monitoring your audio, and simply send the embedded audio between your Blackmagic and your SDI VTR thru the SDI video cable !Bob Zelin
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My thought is to splurge, and get a nice $295 Decklink SP card, and retire your old unit.
Bob Zelin
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SDI is the input video source selection, not your sequence compression scheme. You can choose composite, component and SDI all day long as long as you keep your sequence compression the same (for example 8 bit uncompressed). If you have a DV sequence, you can STILL choose SDI or component as a video input source, as long as you keep the compressor set to DV25.
Bob Zelin
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SDI with embedded SDI audio is the best.
Bob Zelin
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Belsokar –
I know where you are at – you want to get uncompressed HD, and you want to spend as little money as possible. Believe me, this is how I got so much SATA experience – no one wants to buy the correct drive array – because it costs so much money.Walter is right – SATA is just not there yet for uncompressed HD. It works, but it’s not reliable enough. You can certainly do DVCProHD with only 2 drives and the 2 port Firmtek SATA card, as well as 8 and 10 bit uncompressed SDI, but even with 8 drives, you may be disappointed. But to answer your question – YES – you can use 2 Firmtek 4 port cards, and 8 drives in 2 boxes, and stripe them all together RAID 0 to be able to get the bandwidth you need.
There are new products for PCI-e coming out in February 2006 from Sonnet that look very exciting, and they CLAIM to be able to have the bandwidth to do the job as well, but I HAVE NOT SEEN IT YET.
Right now, if you want stability, I would choose a Fibre array from companeis like HUGE or Medea. I like HUGE, Walter likes Medea, some like the Apple XServe RAID (not me). There are others as well. This does not mean that SATA won’t do it, but from my personal experience, I would not rely on SATA for uncompressed HD if this is how you make your living. And believe me, almost 100% of the systems I do have SATA drives on them, so I use SATA all the time.
Just my opinion.
Firmtek is a great company.
Bob Zelin
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the Kona and the I/O allow people who use professional VTR’s to get them in and out of the MAC with the FCP program. This includes people that have Sony HD Cam VTR’s, Panasonic DVCProHD VTR’s with HD-SDI, Sony Digi Beta VTR’s, and even people with older analog Beta VTR’s, VHS machines, pro DV VTR’s like DSR-1500 and DSR-1800, Beta SX decks, etc.
If you have no need to get in or out of these type of formats, and only use HDV, and never need to dump out to a Digi Beta, Beta VTR, or pro HD VTR’s, then David is correct – you can do the whole damn thing via firewire.
bob Zelin
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you spent the money for the Kona board – then use it ! You will love it.
Simply plug in one video cable from HD-SDI out of your AJ-HD1200A and plug the
RS422 cable between the Kona and the VTR, and away you go. You are doing HD editing. If you own professional DV Cam equipment, like a Sony DSR-1500, DSR-1600, DSR-45, DSR-1800, DSR-2000, you will use the same method. There are very good reasons to work this way, as you will see once you start doing it.Use the excellent equipment that you own.
Bob Zelin
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you don’t need a digital mixer at all. You send the embedded digital audio via the SDI or HD SDI signal back and forth between your VTR and your Kona.
All you need is a CHEAP mixer, ilke a Behringer or Mackie, to take the RCA ouputs of the Kona into the mixer, and the mixer out into the speakers. The mixer becomes a fancy inexpensive volume control, for allowing you to control your monitor levels. The Mackie 824 speakers are EXPENSIVE, and you don’t want to blow them ! Buy a small mixer.Bob Zelin