[Kevin Rag]

Hello Alex,
Which I/O did you finally go with. Am in the same boat trying to decide between IO XT and Ultrastudio 3D. All the extra connection options of the BM might win it for me as the IO XT has only SDI input, no analog or AES/EBU audio inputs.

Kannan Raghavan
The Big Toad Films Pte. Ltd.

[Kevin Rag]

Hi Joe. ‘Log and Transfer’ means importing (and transcoding in some cases) files from your camera storage like P2 cards or CF cards in DSLRs. The video I/O devices wouldn’t help you in importing. But, with these I/Os, you can ingest audio and video from sources like decks, routers, cameras etc. via HD/SD-SDI or analog connections depending on the I/O to your edit system. Some of them have great hardware up/down/cross conversion options (on input or output) too. I’d recommend either a AJA IO XT/express or Blackmagic Ultrastudio 3D. These are I/O devices. If monitoring is your only concern, the AJA T-tap would do.

Kannan Raghavan
The Big Toad Films Pte. Ltd.

[Kevin Rag]

Thanks for that Pavi:-)

Kannan Raghavan
The Big Toad Films Pte. Ltd.

[Kevin Rag]

There are good encoding softwares (like Telestream Episode, Apple Compressor, Sorenson Sqeeze)which can do what you want to do. But, it’s still only software conversion and hardware conversion is ALWAYS better. Among the softwares, if you already have FCS, Compressor comes free with the bundle.

Kannan Raghavan
The Big Toad Films Pte. Ltd.

[Kevin Rag]

If you’re looking at USB 3 drives, check out Caldigit’s AV drive. I’ve always used Caldigit’s RAIDs (FW and esata), they’re rock solid.

Kannan Raghavan
The Big Toad Films Pte. Ltd.

[Kevin Rag]

Hello Samuel. I use a few video i/o devices/cards like the AJA IO HD, Matrox MX02, MX 02 LE and the AJA Kona. These connect to the computer/laptop via pcie or expresscard 34 (for laptops). Your storage (hard drives/RAIDs) are connected to the computer and are assigned as the storage drive by your capture software. Never use the computer’s internal hard disks as storage for video. The video signal coming into the video capture device is up/down/cross converted (depending on what you’ve chosen) and sent to the computer which writes the up/down/cross converted video onto the hard drives. You can ‘playback’ the files from the hard drive using your editing software or media players. The video i/o device would ‘output’ this video signal to a external monitor/speaker for viewing/audio monitoring.
Hope this has been of help. Good luck.

Kannan Raghavan
The Big Toad Films Pte. Ltd.

[Kevin Rag]

Went through the same thing yesterday. Open Activity Monitor and quit the application. It’s not ‘dynamiclink manager’ as the updater lists it, but called Adobe ….. something, can’t remember. Once I opened Activity Monitor and quit it, the update happened.

Kannan Raghavan
The Big Toad Films Pte. Ltd.

[Kevin Rag]

I agree with Steve. ProRes 422 is the way to go.

Kannan Raghavan
The Big Toad Films Pte. Ltd.

[Kevin Rag]

Thanks for the prompt reply Ed,as usual. Watched the video tutorial ‘prepping Illustrator file’ (or something like that) and trying it now.

Kannan Raghavan
The Big Toad Films Pte. Ltd.

[Kevin Rag]

Tried pulling out both cards (one at a time), removed the matrox card, tried with installer downloaded from Avid’s website, nothing works. Same error message, right at the end. HELP!

Kannan Raghavan
The Big Toad Films Pte. Ltd.