[Jon T foster]

Chad,

Have you tried ClipWrap to rewrap to QT files and then bring in to CatDV? We have a few clients who have had more success with that approach versus Xuggle, but like Bryson said it all depends on the computer, format, etc.

Jon Foster

Sales Engineer

Niche Video Products, Inc.

Atlanta, GA

[Jon T foster]

Is this a non-native Quicktime file…like a WMV or some MPEG or DIVX variant that is using Perian to open in QT player?

Jon Foster

Sales Engineer

Niche Video Products, Inc.

Atlanta, GA

[Jon T foster]

We’ve been testing it here at the shop, seems to be working ok for the time being. I might hold out for a few more weeks for real world users…

Jon Foster

Sales Engineer

Niche Video Products, Inc.

Atlanta, GA

[Jon T foster]

Hey hey hey hey….slow down there Mr. Arkansas!

Things are well here, hope things are with you as well.

Jon Foster

Sales Engineer

Niche Video Products, Inc.

Atlanta, GA

[Jon T foster]

More cores will be helpful on the transcoding or encoding side of things, otherwise, faster disks, RAM and clean network is the priority.

Jon Foster

Sales Engineer

Niche Video Products, Inc.

Atlanta, GA

[Jon T foster]

i saw this product at the Motu “whisper suite” at NAB this year. took me into the suite, showed me a picture, went over the specs verbally, i asked some questions, i told them i was suprised this is what the “meeting” was about. they had called me 2 months prior to NAB asking me if I had time to meet with them at NAB. mind you the company nor myself has ever sold a MOTU product and we’re not dealers for them…i’m guessing they scoured the AJA/BMD sites for potential dealers/customers to show it to at NAB. they didn’t make me sign an NDA, a little viral marketing at it’s finest.

so we wrapped up the chat over the picture of the unit, i thought it was time to go. then they asked me if I wanted to see it…took me into another section of the suite where they showed it working with Final Cut, had multiple monitors up showing the output capabilities. the whole time i kept thinking that if these guys has this product out a year ago or even 6 months ago, they might have had some sort of a fighting chance, but even then it would have been tough. but showing this on the heels of the ioHD announcement, forget about it.

One thing that sent the demo wheels spinning was when I asked if it could do SD-SD conversion, like the Kona 3 and ioHD. no dice.

the only thing i saw remotely interesting was there were a few more audio in/outs, but those few features are so far from making me ever think about spec-ing that box over an AJA ioHD. AJA all day.

Jon Foster

Sales Engineer

Niche Video Products, Inc.

Atlanta, GA

[Jon T foster]

Darren:

Hello, Jon Foster from Niche Video Products in Atlanta, GA. We are an Xsan Medallion/AJA dealer servicing the Southeast, and could assist you with your Xsan/FCP/AJA needs. Shoot me an email (jontfoster@gmail.com) if you would like to chat.

Thanks!

Jon Foster

Sales Engineer

Niche Video Products, Inc.

Atlanta, GA