[Ramona Howard]

Hello all,

I have been following the forum for a while and wanted to ask if anyone has used Luster(Open Linux Cluster)software? We have tested and certified RaveHD with the Panasas Cluster and will be exploring this option next. We do know of a studio testing Luster with great results but wanted feedback from other users.

Thanks for the input,
Ramona

[Ramona Howard]

Most don’t know that the AJA products were the first boards used by ILM and many manufactures like myself are using them in our products and better yet they support any board I need to use.

A $2500 board that does everything the K2 does a few short years ago would have cost upwards of $10,000(in fact the OEM Dual Link boards did)so you should really be asking not will the board be around but what else can they come up with. Will the boards ever be consider outdated? yes, when AJA releases the next awesome product but with this board you should be set for a while.

Remember you are getting a proven product here. This is not a company that just started doing this. We have been working with AJA on HD for about 5 years now and working on Dual Link HD for at least 2 of those and every card is better than the last.

Best of luck,
Ramona
My $.02

[Ramona Howard]

Ian,

I’m understanding that his client wants to take uncompressed 4:4:4 and convert it to an HD MPEG stream for the internet. We are currently working on taking our current RaveHD package and adding in 4:2:0 support which is what the encoders that our clients use need. Not sure what’s available on the OSX side, our app is entirely Linux.

Brian, please correct me if I have misunderstood your post.

Happy hunting,
Ramona

[Ramona Howard]

Brian,

We are working to incorporate some encoders with our current clients but nothing out of BETA yet. The 4:4:4 ingest/playback is a solid solution(was used for 1/3 of Sin City) and also used for Shark Boy and Lava Girl, both done entirely in a 4:4:4 workflow.

Honestly you will be very hard pressed to find a professional proven 4:4:4 solution that can also handle the encode for under 20k.

feel free to drop me an email ramona@spectsoft.com

[Ramona Howard]

This years show sounds like fun….we are actually excited about going to a trade show, ouch!

See you there,
Ramona

[Ramona Howard]

Joe,

I have to agree with you because we are not seeing this issue on the Linux side using the AJA hardware.

Cheers and best of luck,
Ramona

[Ramona Howard]

Keicol,

I have no answers to your particular problem and only wanted to relay that I feel the RP188 issue does not lay with the card. We are using the Kona2 and have been using the RP188 stream sucessfully for quite some time to read timecode. We read the RP188 stream for timecode first and then the RS422 stream second or rather use it as a fail safe.(the RP188 stream has always proven to be more robust than the RS422).

Good luck in your quest.

Cheers,
Ramona

RaveHD-Changing the way you think about HD
PC/Linux based DDR/VTR

[Ramona Howard]

Not on the Mac but I wanted to make sure you guys were aware of RaveHD. We support both slave and master and is utilizing the AJA boards.

Cheers,
Ramona

[Ramona Howard]

Thanks Gary,

That was going to my comment. It will be interesting to see what happens over the next year with this format and who comes to the plate with full support.

Cheers,
Ramona

[Ramona Howard]

I agree. As much as I love HD getting rid of a perfectly good set makes no sense.

Bob,

Where is the report posted, I would love to read the insanity of it.

Cheers,
Ramona