Tim Kolb
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It’s probably a UVW1800…or possibly a PVW machine?
This is a lack of a reference signal…you need to feed the deck some stable black in the “REF” input on the back.
Frankly, I’ve gone to simply recording it and watching it after as with the old UVW 1800 deck I’m using, even though the picture looks like this when recording, the recorded video is always fine.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions, -
[gary adcock] “please think of it more as a “Cartmanesque” salute as in “Timm-AAHH””
LOL…
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions, -
[gary adcock] “Yes,timmy the IoHD now properly works under FCP 7.01 and OSX 10.6.1 and later.”
Hmmm… AJA needs to update their website.
Just for the record…very few get away with calling me “Timmy”.
🙂
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions, -
[gary adcock] “People forget that the KiPro is both a 10bit recorder and Player.
The recoding unit can play out the files over SDI/ HMDI or Component into systems that are not ProRes friendly like PPro is.”I didn’t forget, Gary. I’ve used the KiPro as a master HDSDI ‘VTR’.
My comment was based on Matthew’s recommendation to pair a KiPro and an IO Express…but Mark outlined in his original post that he was using FCP.
So for Mark, the direct route via file transfer from the KiPro’s drive would be the easiest…adding an HDSDI (or HDMI) real time transfer between the KiPro and the IO Express into FCP (not to mention the unnecessary decode-reencode step) would be a waste of time.
…right?
TimK,
Director, Consultant
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The IO devices in concept, are external versions of the internally installed Kona and Xena cards.
These cards and devices are all basically “I/O” devices (in/out). They get video in and out of your computer in a variety of formats. The HDV you’ve been editing can be ingested through FireWire, which is typically included on a computer. There are many other video types that move in HDSDI/SDI (serial digital) signals and analog component, or even composite signal formats. These can’t be ingested by a computer that can’t receive these signals and mastering back to these formats is impossible unless you can output the correct signal type.
The addition of a Kona or Xena card to a desktop computer supplies these inputs and outputs, but a laptop doesn’t have a slot for these cards…
This is where the external I/O devices come in. The original IO box simply added SD analog inputs and outputs to a computer on an external box that plugged into the computer’s FW port. It enabled a laptop (or any Macintosh that had a FW port) the ability to input/output analog component video and analog audio to a tape format like Betacam SP, whereas FW could only input/output DV (and now HDV).
The IO HD came out in concert with ProRes and is designed to work with Macintoshes and FCP. In the case of your laptop, you would add the capability to interface with a variety of serial digital (HDSDI/SDI) video devices and analog devices as well as all those inputs and outputs are on the box itself.
When you are ingesting footage onto your computer now, the HDV footage is simply flowing through the FW cable and you’re placing it on your harddrive, but if you plan on editing with ProRes, you would need to change a video format like HDcam or HDcam SR to ProRes as you ingest it…’transcode on the fly’ as it were. The AJA IO HD actually takes care of this transcoding itself, taking that load off your computer, which makes it ideal for laptop work, not to mention you can also show your FCP timeline playback on you Mac Book Pro on a broadcast monitor through the outputs.
The IO Express came out as a lighter weight version of the IO HD…the express works on both Windows and Mac and has a subset of the IO HD’s HDSDI, HDMI and analog inputs and outputs, but the Express also moves that ‘transcode’ task back to the computer. On one hand, it allows you to use whatever codecs are on your computer, so your choices expand, but you need a beefier computer to do the extra work.
It all depends on what you need and what makes your life easier. One man’s ultimate solution is another’s tedious detour.
If someone sees an area where I’ve misrepresented something…feel free to chime in…
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions, -
[gary adcock] “One of the best “PC” guys I know too.”
I’m guessing that you don’t mean ‘politically correct’…
🙂
Seriously…the IO HD now runs with FCS 3, or is it waiting for Apple? Or did Apple do their thing and it now works?
People from the dark side of the force want to know…
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions, -
[Matthew Causon] “I think an AJA Ki Pro with an Io Express would be a good route.”
Technically, if you had a KiPro, you would simply transfer your footage into your computer as a data transfer. You wouldn’t need the IO Express for ingest. If you have an HDSDI monitor on your editing system, the IO Express would be helpful.
If you are running a monitor from your computer’s display card, the IO Express would be useful to introduce other types of footage onto your system.
Otherwise…you would want a KiPro to make a portable ProResHQ recording system with a camera…OR you could add an IO Express to your desktop system and use it to ingest HDSDI from your camera live in the studio (but a desktop system isn’t very portable). For the purpose of ONLY ingesting into your Mac, they would be somewhat redundant.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions, -
[gary adcock] “Tim in a PC guy and while those 8 bit Mpeg files my play well on a PC, ProRes is always 10bit color and designed from the ground up to be optimized for FCP.”
Funny…PPro is incapable of handling MPEG over 35 Mbit, but 100 Mbit runs very well in FCP.
However, there is no question that 10 bit beats 8 bit for compositing work hands-down.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions, -
[gary adcock] “And Contrary to Tim’s comment about the IoHD only being available for FCS2,
The IoHD software has been updated for FCS3. The AJA Software update had to wait for a fix available in the 7.01 FCP from Apple.”As you said, I’m a PC guy and I can only go by what is on the website…and it says “For use with Apple Final Cut Studio 2 on Mac OS X” …I just double checked.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions, -
…of course you could always get a KiPro and compress to ProRes on that and simply file-transfer into your system if a Kona in a workstation is inconvenient to lug into the studio…
I use an IO Express on the PC side, but it also works on a Mac…but it doesn’t have the same collection of I/O capabilities as a Kona card.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,