Brad Bussé
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Yeah, I’ve definitely considered it. But at $4k, it’s a bit pricey. For that price, I could get an entry level Mac Pro plus a Kona LHi. I’ve also been looking at the KiPro Mini and the Ninja, but who knows exactly when those will be available for shippping.
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Ah, I stand corrected, thank you!
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Thanks. I’ve never used the included AJA capture software. I’m glad to see that it gives you access to all codecs supported by the card (except for ProRes on windows, of course). One of the things killing me about the Blackmagic and Matrox solutions, is that the included capture utilities only give you access to 8-bit uncompressed, and then the codec of their choice. Assuming the Mac is able to read the native PC captured DVCPROHD .avi files, I suppose I’ll just have to setup a droplet to convert to ProRes.
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Well, yes AVI I suppose. But I was hoping that since the codec is the same, I could merely rename the .avi wrapper to .mov and have it work without having to convert and go through generational loss (and the additional time to convert).
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64-bit Windows 7. I’ve demoed an MXO2 LE, and found it to be extremely buggy, whether capturing through the included capture software or Premiere CS5. Otherwise, I did like the quality of their MPEG-2 Intraframe codec. I just don’t think I can justify going that route, hoping that they fix the drivers. I had the latest drivers as of a couple weeks ago, and had the latest firmware.
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Yes, here’s hoping that Lion lives up to it’s name rather than resembling 10.7: Hello Kitty. And here’s hoping that Final Cut Pro 7 doesn’t follow Quicktime Pro 7 into becoming “Final Cut X”. We really need a pro workflow for our pro apps that isn’t getting muddled up with gamma issues and whatnot. We need a stable, 64-bit, Open CL and Grand Central optimized Final Cut Pro and Compressor.
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Interesting … I wasn’t even aware that the Mac and PC versions of the codec were incompatible. I can tell you though, that I’ve used the Intensity Pro to capture uncompressed 8-bit footage on a PC, and when it was brought over to my Mac for editing in FCP, it had to first have it’s color space converted in the metadata. Someone at Blackmagic had provided me with an Application for Mac which handles the conversion automatically (it doesn’t recompress the data, just alters the metadata), but it didn’t work for every file, usually files over 12 GB in size I think caused problems.
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No! I’d run all H.264 through a droplet to convert to ProRes before editing.
Thanks, the MXO 2 might fit the bill. Do you know, offhand, what data rate the MXO 2 can encode H.264 at?
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Yes, check the resolution of both your capture settings, and also your Xbox settings (sometimes it will reset your xbox resettings if you unplug it), and make sure that they both MATCH EACHOTHER. You may also be having an issue with HDCP via HDMI, so if you have one of the newer Intensity cards with component input, use that instead. I think there’s an HDCP setting to disable it in the Xbox 360 settings, but that may only be on the Development kit versions of the 360.
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Well, if I were building a cheap PC box from scratch, but my understanding is that you need to select specific components that are Hackintosh friendly, so I don’t know that it would be suited to this application since we’re trying to repurpose an existing built box, like a Dell or whatever.