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If added bandwidth isn’t important, you can add drives by doing a concatenated disk set. This allows you to add unequal drive sizes together, but does not provide ANY bandwidth improvement over a single drive.

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I actually haven’t run into any problems with the Sonnet D800RAID in Leapord (Developer Release, obviously).

I’m curious if my ioHD will work. I’ll try it later tonight maybe.

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Eventually you will be able to. AJA announced at NAB that card restrictions will go away in the future. As of today, however, it will not work. But soon.

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[Marcus Ionis] “1) Does the Xena LH or LHe support the HP8200?
If so any major pitfalls?

Yup. Make sure your storage is on the opposite bus (PCIe for Xena LH, PCI-X for LHe)

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2) Does the Xena LH capture real-time TGA, TIFF, Cineon, BMP image sequences.

Yup

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3) Does it output image sequences in real-time to tape?

Yup

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4) Does the Xena card capture AVI dv/dvcpro in real-time via SDI/HD-SDI

Not currently. Only uncompressed options are supported for capture. All of those options are available for realtime output though.

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5) Does the card output HDV via SD/HD-SDI? Like the KONA2/3 card.

Yup!

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6) Like the KONA 2/3 cards, does the Xena LH perform aspect ratio conversions in SD mode? I.e. 4×3 Anamorphic to 4×3 Letterbox 1.78

Only the Xena2K does SD to SD, not the LH/LHe

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7) Does the Xena LH card perform upconvertions?

No, but the Xena 2K card does.

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8) Does the card perform a standard 2:3 cadence from SD 24 frames sequence to SD 29.97 tape?

To my knowledge the Xena LHe will do the reverse pulldown for 24p footage.

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9) Does the card support PAL for SD & HD?

Yup

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10) Does the Xena drivers read the 8/10 bit Uncompress SD/HD QT from Final Cut Pro?

Yup

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11) Does the Xena drivers read SD QT using the Blackmagic codec?

Honestly, I’m not sure.

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12) Does the Xena card need house REF or is there a “Free Run” feature like the KONA2/3 card.

It has both freerun and ref, so either or

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13) Does the Xena card have drivers working w/Photoshop? The objective is directly capturing screen grabs using Photoshop.
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Yup.

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[JeremyG] “Got your PCIe Expansion Slot Utility setup proper?
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Check this. Power loss of PRAM reset can unset this. If it isn’t in a 4x lane slot, you’ll get what you described.

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AJA hardware works great right now on 10.5 DP.

Now FCP on the other hand….

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Important to note, the reason the LHe supports 23.98 from an HVX200 is because it is DVCProHD which is just flagged 59.94. The LHe does not support 23.98 as a standard framerate.

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You would have to either convert one of your SDI outputs to an analog signal or monitor via composite or YC while outputing via the other. Can’t do component and composite at the same time. You can do composite and Y/C though.

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Taken from the AJA post on the ioHD shipping.

[AJA Sales Department] “- DVCProHD, 720 and 1080 formats, ingest and playout (CPU-based)
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Just for the sake of follow through.

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Using multiple channels on the Sonnet eSATA card provides for more bandwidth, so you could actually achieve more by having multiple enclosures only partially filled. I also use the exact same setup as above and it works great for 2-3 streams of ProRes through the ioHD. I’ve even tested RAID10 inside a D400Q box from Sonnet and it works great as well for ProResHQ.