[Joseph Robinson]

So (back to my original post) I’m wondering, based on my workflow, would you recommend the ioHD or the KiPro?

Again 80% of what we do will be in a controlled environment. We will do some shots occasionally in the field. We have Anton Bauer adapters for all our equipment. I assume we can get something for the ioHD or KiPro. I’m just wondering which unit would probably be best for us.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

[Joseph Robinson]

Correct me if I’m wrong but I want to switch between cameras live. The resulting stream from the switcher mixed with the audio will give me a single file I can clean up in FCP and drag into DVD Studio Pro. This saves me manually cutting from cam1 to cam2 in post production.

Post production is cool when we’re filming dramatic presentations, but when it’s simply a conference speaker, I’d like to switch live and be ready to quickly slap it on a DVD.

Does that make sense or am I missing something?

[Joseph Robinson]

Bob your post is hilarious. Sure appreciate all the input on these. We are brand new to video and are simply learning and hoping to land a “real” video guy to guide us. We shoot 80% of our video in an auditorium setting with two cameras.

Two – Sony PMW-EX1 XD Cams
MacBook Pro – 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
2TB – CalDigit VR – FASTA-1ex SATA Express Card
Final Cut Pro 6.0.6

Our work flow has been to shoot while hot-swapping SxS cards. During shoots we insert full cards into the Mack and dump them via Firewire 800 to the external HD

Once the shoot is done we plug the External HD into the express slot and do all post production in FCP. Post production was a killer at our last conference.

This is the solution I’m thinking in my uneducated skull of mush

1. Shoot both cameras and output HDSDI (also record SxS as a backup)
2. Video switcher to
3a. AJA KiPro (or ioHD)
3b. AJA ioHD thru FW800 thru MBP thru FCP to External HD

Three Questions
1. Are either of these intelligent work flows?
2. Based on what we’re shooting, ioHD or KiPro?
3. Could sure use a recommendation on a simple, inexpensive ($4k) HD video switch. Simply need to switch between two video signals. An adjustable fade during the switch would be nice. The ability to expand to 4 video inputs would be great as well.

Any input would be greatly appreciated.