[Paul Huppe]

OK, Update:

Captured DvcProHD footage through the ioHD unit, and still can’t play it out. Also tried captureing as 422 & 422 HQ, and it works! Footage looks great, too! The previous failed 422 attempt must’ve had something to do with the DvcProHD footage being captured through firewire instead of through the ioHD.

So, at least I can move on with a viable option. I’m still bitter that AJA has that false statement in their manual (p.69, BTW). But I’m happy that the 422 stuff looks so nice.

Thanks, Jeremy for your help.
Paul

[Paul Huppe]

Problem with that, is that ProRes does NOT look as good as native DvcProHD – whatever Aja says. I’ve compared them on my HD CRT and there’s a HUGE difference in sharpness, not to mention ProREs gives it more of a ‘film’ look – which can be nice, but not when you can’t control it.

If you’ve got a DvcPro HD deck (AJ HD1400 is what I used) could youdo me a favor and capture some footage at 1080i60 throught eh firewire connection and see if that plays out? I’d love to compare apples to apples, if you’ve got a few minutes.

Thanks for all your help
Paul

[Paul Huppe]

Nope. Still the same. Not sure why it crashes in ‘medium’ now.

Jeremy, when you say you can watch DvcProHD ‘all day long’, how was this captured? via firewire, or through the ioHD? Mine is via firewire. I’ll test some footage captured through the ioHD on Tuesday…

Thanks,
Paul

[Paul Huppe]

OK, so here’s the update:

Still no luck. Settings have been checked and rechecked:

timeline: DvcProHD 1080i60

viewer setting: AJA ioHD ProRes 422 29.97 1080

Tried reverting back to FCP v6.0.1 – same result.

Something funny has cropped up: I was able to set my frame res to medium at first. Now, I get the black screen of death.

Tried it without ioHD hooked up: High, medium, low = OK

with ioHD hooked up but external viewer set to ‘off’: High, medium, low = OK

with ioHD as external viewer: Pro Res 422 29.97 1080:
high: same result – dropped frames
medium: black screen of death.

I’m currently trying to reinstall ioHD driver (same version – only one available). I’ll post results shortly.

This is really starting to piss me off. Spoke with AJA tech support, but not much help. Actually, Jeremy, he was surprised that you could view it at all…

Cheers,
Paul

[Paul Huppe]

Some say the new LCDs are as good as CRTs. If you line them up side by side, you can see how untrue that is. While the new LCDs have made huge advances, you can’t compare the two. We’ll always get better pictures from CRTs than from pixels. That’s not to say that LCDs aren’t any good; they’re just not as nice as a good CRT.

I just bought the JVC 17″ DTV (same version of your 19″, I think), and it’s smoking hot. I can’t get my ioHD to deliver the picture to it properly, but that’s another story…

See if you can’t get a second opinion on what it’ll take to repair it. And if you decide to scrap it and go LCD, I’d be curious to see how much you’d sell your input cards for. I’ve got the SD-SDI and the HD/SD Component. I’ve love to get my hands on a decent-priced HD-SDI card…

Cheers,
Paul

[Paul Huppe]

it plays the video at a lower resolution – definitly NOT full-res; but it plays

[Paul Huppe]

read 101 MB/s
write 115 MB/s

Timeline setting: tried both DvcProHD 1080i60 & AJA ioHD 1080i 29.97 DvcProHD. Same result for both.

also tried different FW800 cable – no difference

footage was captured native DvcPro HD 1080i60 through firewire prior to my recieving the ioHD

Thanks for the help,
Paul

[Paul Huppe]

which viewing setting should I be on, then? All I see are IoHD ProRes options, either HQ or not.

[Paul Huppe]

Whoops, that’s an error on my part. I meant to say RAID 0, not RAID 1. It’s not a mirror RAID.

Sorry,
Paul

[Paul Huppe]

Whoops. Typo. Should read ‘good’

Paul