Lee Berger
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Camtasia works quite well and you can download a trial for 30 days.
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I have the SignVideo firewire Switch to switch between my DSR-1500 DVCam deck and Io. I’ve been using it for nine months. It works, but the connections are touchy. If the firewire cables are not carefully seated the device is not seen by the G-5. Also you have to exit FCP to make the switch or it can cause a crash. Otherwise it is a workable solution.
Some on this post have claimed that they put the Io and deck on seperate busses using a FireWIre PCI card. I did not work with my system.
I have the SignVideo switch connected to the built-in FW port. Connected to the PCI card are two external drives and a DVD burner. All work happily together when switch to the DSR-1500 or the Io.
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G reverse is a free plugin from Nattress that does a much better job than FCP’s reverse function.
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Prolabels http://www.prolabel.com makes DV and DVCPro label sheets and inserts. The also provide templates as well. You probably can’t use filemaker, but they offer a Windows label program that works fairly well. I used them for years in the late ’90s.
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I tried it, connecting the Io to the internal Firewire bus and my DV deck to a Firewire PCI card. I got an error message about driver conflicts when I tried to load an Io setup. I reversed the connections and it would not recognize the Io’s video. Perhaps it has to do with my Prolific PL3507 Firewire PCI card.
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I had a similar problem going directly from a consumer grade VHS player into Io. It seems that the Io frame sync can not handle the errors. I got a used FOR.A FA-210 TBC off E-Bay and that took care of the problem. No problem with my Beta VCR because it has a built in TBC.
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I surprised that it works because AJA states on their FAQ that:
“With Io and a G4/G5 computer, you cannot have two FireWire video devices (we’re not talking about storage devices) connected at the same time. Doing so causes driver conflicts. Unfortunately, even installing a PC FireWire interface card will not help with this; the only solution is using an external FireWire A/B switch to select a single device at a time.”
I’m going to give it a try as the A/B switch is inconvenient at best. You have to exit FCP to make the switch or the application may crash.
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Tom:
You are correct. Aja products are for capturing from sources other than DV such as analog audio and video, SDI (Serial Digital Interface), as well as digital audio.use my AJA Io to:
*capture and output from and to analog sources such as Betacam SP, VHS, and Hi-8. It provides RS-422 control of my Betacam deck.
*output to my DVD recorder for quick client review copies
*to feed analog signals to my NTSC monitor, waveform monitor, and vector scope.
*capture digital audio from my portable DAT recorder.I could also use it to:
*capture and output SDI from and to Digital Betacam or any other SDI source.The Io uses firewire to transfer the digitally encoded analog signals to your Mac. It does not accept firewire input and you cannot have the Io and a firewire DV device connected at the same time. I had to purchase a Firewire A/B switch to switch between Io and my DVCam deck.
The Kona line uses a card slot and does not interfere with firewire capture from your DV source.
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CMX 3400 Editor to Client a few times per day, “Sorry, but we have to reboot the I2.”
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This only addresses part of the problem. You still cannot use the Io to record in Soundtrack Pro and you can only use the Io for playback if there is a video file imported. I would like to use soundtrack and Io for all of my audio recording and monitoring in Soundtrack.