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Any specifics on which SAN solutions will be supported initially?
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Both or one or the other? Kind of confusingly worded.
MacPro or a G5?
A 4x lane PCIe slot will work fine for any single/dual port fiber card. If you want both a fiber card and an eSATA card, Sonnet makes a great little 1x lane 2 port eSATA board (E2P).
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This happens since the preferences are in the top level library. Since the control panel supports presets, you could log in as admin, set up all the various presents needed (or the default behavior) on your master machine and push this to the labs. That way when a non-admin user logs in, they have this behavior and preset ready to roll for them
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How long have you been using the drives? How fragmented are they? How full are they? What kind of footage?
Lots of questions before more answers.
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I haven’t tested it myself, but I have heard that it works just fine. Officially AJA only supports Vista64, but you may have no problems with the x64 driver on XP64.
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Lets not forget that the MXO is sapping a good portion of your video cards resources to handle that canvas and if you have 2x 30″ displays, you are already hurting. Couple this with the fact that almost everything in FCP 6 uses fxPlug for effects, RT, and transitions, I can see why the MXO would be painful.
The immediate benefit to the ioHD is going to be the ability to ingest ProRes or ProResHQ in realtime from a signal, free up your video card for more processing, and give you the ability to output to an HDMI monitor. You can also purchase an HDP if you want to continue using the 23″ Apple monitor as your preview.
In all honesty, I don’t agree with Bob saying you don’t need an AJA product. The ioHD might be overkill for your use, but if you don’t need up/cross convert or 4 channels of analog audio in, a Kona LHe card would work splendidly for what you want to do.
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Last I had checked, CS3 was not a 64-bit suite anyway, so what is the impetus to go to XP 64? Just curious.
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As Walter and Gary both said, you want one of each of their recommendations:
An AJA HD10AVA will take your analog component and 4 channel audio and give you an SDI out with embedded audio
An AJA ADA4 will take 4 of your AES channels and convert them to analog audio for print to tape (Kona 3 already has Component output)
A keyspan 232 to 422 adapter will give you device control.
With these three tools and the Kona 3, there really aren’t many formats on the planet you can’t ingest, up/down/cross convert, and output to.
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You need to bypass the tape transport all together to see any noticable difference. That means record direct to disk, SDI out of the back of the XL-H1, SDI into the back of the LHe card.
That said, transcoding on ingest from HDV to ProRes provides you a much bigger room to work in when dealing with compositing/graphics/color. It will not, however, make the footage look any better just by simply ingesting it.
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Try this little trick and see how it looks on your laptops. Change output settings from dynamic to high. Report back.