Roland Blaser
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Hi Alex!
As soon as FCP starts it takes over ioHD control from the AJA control panel. FCP has priority before the AJA control panel. In other words: it is normal it has to be like this. Within FCP you will control the AJA ioHD via the FCP settings. If you did the proper installation you should have the AJA presets now showing up within your FCP.
Check out all the presets, there are many for capturing and there are many for playback. The ones that work together with AJA ioHD have AJA in their name…Regards,
Roland
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Hi John! Ist the ioHD the only unit connected to your Firewire 800? The ioHD needs the full Firewire throughput, so nothing else on the Firewire – no HD, no nothing. Maybe it works with SD ’cause of a lower data volume compared to HD.
Regards, Roland
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Hi Bob!
I agree. Fortunately, I still have one of the 1st generation unibody 15 inch MacBook Pro that offers an Express card 34 slot. In other words: For time being I could use this one for the upcoming AJA io express. I perfectly know that AJA offers a choice of fine products – I own the ioHD and I’m happy so far. However, the io express would be an easy alternative for transferring reports and footage between my TV station’s archive and my personal editing suite (FCP running on an 8-core MacPro). As much as I like the ioHD: I’m looking forward for something smaller for the “road work”. Just need SD/SDI HD in/out in co-operatiion with ProRes. Looks like that’s exactly where the io express jumps in.
And yes: I would consider AJA KI Pro for this job, too. Just hoping that AJA gets the driver from Sony for their SxS cards as I own Sony’s XDCAM EX camcorder with some SxS cards…Regards, Roland
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Bob, definitely I like your kind of humor. To make it short: Below the line it was a simple feature request. I’m sure both of us will LOL whenever AJA decides to add the “view through” for FCP in future. In the meantime we will be happy with the KiPro as it is.
And hopefully the creative cow forum will continue to be an open minded discussion forum for PROs like you and me, even if the requests and points of view seem to be strange or stupid sometimes.Kind regards, Roland
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Jeremy, I couldn’t agree more with you!
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Gary, you are right! Let’s wait and see first.
Take my input as a topic on the wish list. However it looks like others have the same wish (at least found one further down in this forum). I’m pretty sure it’s just a question of “playing” with the firmware and AJA will do it earlier or later anyway.
By the way: There is no need to defend AJA’s product philosophy beacuse there is nothing to fight. I really got the message that it is a record/playback unit. However, as a TV journalist I’m used to ask questions like this. I apologize if somebody got the idea it is my intention to fight against AJA. I use my ioHD daily and I’m happy so far. I’m waiting for the KiPro as you do because Apple’s ProRes is just great and it makes totally sense to offer a recorder/player like the KiPro. I plan to use it for taking reports and footage out of my TV station’s video archive, ingesting the stuff into my FCP editing suite. And I plan to use it vice versa, bringing the final product back to my TV station.
Up to know I used either tape or XDCAM for this. But after changing the video stuff so many times in the past, I’m tired of proprietary solutions. By using ProRes and offering any kind of formats (SD/HD in different standards) the KiPro will be a unit that will do the job for many years…
Roland
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“See Chris’s post. He said he talked to AJA. Have you tried that yet? Instead of getting mad and accusing AJA of wanting to empty your pocketbook, perhaps you can send them a nice email and ask them nicely to do what you are proposing. Believe me when I tell you, I am sure they want to hear what you have to say as they are constantly looking for ways to make your life easier.”
Jeremy, you got me wrong if you think I’m against AJA. Of course, I emailed them already concerning this question. But aren’t forums like this made for people like us who want to discuss such matters open minded? Or do we just have to accept what the industry decides for whatever reasons?
I wanted to post this topic to see whether other FCP users have the same point of view or whether I’m the only one who would like to buy a KiPro as a replacement for the ioHD in case AJA would change their mind concerning the view through. So the idea is: Hey AJA, why not making a nice product even better and more attractive for some of us? What’s wrong with that, Jeremy???
I expect AJA to read forums like this. And therefore it’s important that discussions like this are possible. It’s not about accusing somebody for whatever, of course.
But in case you want me to be more positive concerning AJA, I’m happy to tell this:
Recently my ioHD’s composite input/output died. AJA’s support helped me to identify the problem and the unit has been replaced within a couple of days. In other words: a great service.
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Well, I know that AJA calls the KiPro an acquisition device. However, technically it is something like an AJA ioHD with recording and playback capabilities, right?
What I want to do? I just do what most of us or at least many of us do: I use the AJA ioHD as an interface for feeding the FCP timeline output to an external monitor. As we know, AJA is telling us that the ioHD needs the full Firewire throughput and we shouldn’t connect any other Firewire units to the Mac at the same time. And now the very same company brings a solution that needs Firewire? In other words: you can’t edit in FCP with an external monitor (via ioHD) and having KiPro’s Firewire HD connected at the same time? Or you need a second Firewire controller, right? Doesn’t make too much sense to me. And as the KiPro is nearly an AJA ioHD (plus recording/playback): is the idea to use it as a view trough unit for connecting an external monitor when editing in FCP so stupid?
My finding: It’s not so much of a technical question, they simply want us to buy both units because it’s better for the business.
Once more: I like the AJA stuff but here I have a problem. It’s not only a question of money, it’s a question of carrying two units around when one could do the job. AJA, this couldn’t be your last word concerning this question. Just enable view through in your KiPro firmware and everybody is happy…Cheers, Roland
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Living in PAL surrounding (25 frames) and producing for the broadcast world I do not really care about 24p. Many cinema movies have been produced in 25p. Maybe some of you would like to kill me for this but IMO a playback difference of one frame (production in 25p, playback in cinemas 24p) is acceptable – it’s around 4 percent speed error…
Much more I would miss Variable Frame Rates because this tool becomes more and more common in the broadcast and doc world. I really hope this will be part of an upgrade path, otherwise this camcorder will miss an important tool others will offer as standard in this camcorder class most probably rather soon.
Something nice, by the way, seems to be the new digital wireless two channel audio. I always missed a two channel slot-in solution for interviews with two transmitters. Or wireless stereo from the audio mixer.
Looking forward whether the price in Europa is in the same range as the one in US.
Cheers, Roland -
Dear colleagues answering my questions,
THANKS A LOT !!! And a special thanks goes to Jeremy who offered checking footage samples. I’m more than happy with the result. And I’m sure others are happy to read news like this, too…
All the best from Switzerland,
Roland