Tony! Hulette
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Hmm, I don’t understand your post. Why would compare the AJA Io to the BlackMagic cards if latency was an important issue to you? The Io has more latency because it uses Firewire (which has some advantages over PCI). For myself and many others pro editors the latency has been a non issue, but I understand why it could bother others. Its my opinion you should have compared the BlackMagic cards to the Kona 2 and/or Kona LS cards from AJA. Don’t get me wrong, BM has some very interesting and competitive offerings, I’m just saying, don’t slam the Io for something AJA can’t control and at the same time condemn all AJA’s products by not even mentioning them.
The Kona LS or Kona 2 with the K-Box option would have been a great choice for you based on what I know. I like that with the Kona/K-Box setup you don’t have the messy cable bundle. Additionally, Kona cards have excellent compatibility with the Io if you already have one. BlackMagic has also recently introduced some very nice breakout box like options of their own, but compare the price of those to the $299 K-Box and you’ll see that the Kona cards are very competitive with good features and quality.
AJA has also already released the updates for FCP 5/Tiger for the Kona cards. This was made possible by their very close working relationship with Apple. In fact the Kona 2 cards were the only cards used by Apple in their NAB booth and for their presentations on stage. Anyway, I’m not saying you made a bad choice with the Decklink cards because I know they have some nice capabilities and features, but I am saying that the Io the Kona cards are a very good pieces of equipment used in pro environments all over the world. For example, the Io’s and/or the Kona cards have been used heavily in an amazing number of high profile events with great success including the Superbowl, the Datona 500, the World Series and many Sundance films. Fox Sports can use just about whatever equipment they want for their high profile sporting events. They picked the AJA kona cards, Io’s and other AJA devices for a reason. I’m guessing Apple picked them for a similar reason as well.
Even with your BlackMagic choice, I hope you keep AJA in mind for your future purchases. They have some great products and are worth your consideration.
Tony!
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[Adam Schmidt] “Yes! But, will it be reduced in FCP 4.5? or on Dual G4 hardware? “
I’m trying to find out Adam. That question didn’t come up in any of my conversations with AJA over the last few days.
Tony!
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One reason for there not being more announcements from AJA this year is because of all the unexpected the delays that happened with the Kona cards and the Io updates last year. They are being much more cautious about announcing anything that is not ready (or very close) to shipping. That being said, they did announce some very solid new features and products. They have also been working very closely with Apple to insure that the Kona cards and the Io work with FCP 5, Quicktime 7 and Tiger.
Tony!
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Motion 2 will be able to take advantage of more than 4gb’s of RAM. Overall, it looks like a very nice update. I did here about one cool undocumented feature (and unsupported): If you set your FCP 5 sequence to Unlimited RT, it will attempt to play imported Motion and Livetype comps in RT without rendering (no guarantees, but cool anyway).
Tony!
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See my post above. https://www.creativecow.net/forum/read_post.php?postid=111409601540481&forumid=150
The Io is not compatible with Tiger yet, but should be about the same time Tiger ships.
Tony!
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I don’t think so Mitch. the Io is not compatible with Tiger (OS 10.4) with the current drivers. So you’d have to run FCP 5 with OS 10.3.9 (required by FCP 5) to even try it – I doubt it’ll work, but
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I was told it would support video out (like After Effects, Motion 2, Combustion, etc.). I was also told that Core Audio support would be in the next update, so I’m not sure what the true answer is right now. I’ll try and find out more.
Tony!
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Hi Francois, a lot of people would love to be able to play video out though the Io from Pro Tools and many other applications. However, its my understanding that Apple would have to update their AJA Io drivers for each application for it to work. That being the case, I don’t believe Pro Tools will be at the top of the list of newly supported applications for the Io (I could be wrong). They did add support for After Effects, Combustion and Motion last year, so it is possible. Maybe we’ll get some good news at NAB next week? Tiger and Quicktime 7 hopefully will make it more likely.
Tony!
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Very nice