Anyone visit AJA at NAB.. Q's

[Simon Blackledge]

Did anyone get a look at the AJA io/hd box at NAB?

Seen a podcast where they had one hooked up and dude from AJA mentioned SATA raid connected with a dual sata port card on a macbookpro.

Anyone know what card this was? Caldigit? What was the raid.. Port multiplied?

I got the impression it was prores only.. but he said it also did SD uncompressed :-/

anyone?

cheers

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[Trevor Meier]

It was a G-sata. Not sure which card, but it was not port-multiplied. The Aja box does do SD uncompressed. Prores only for HD work... all that data has to flow down a firewire 800 pipe. But the Prores/Uncompressed splitscreen demo I saw was indistinguishable except for one slight gamma difference on a fade to black... and that was a 10th-generation ProRes encode. Pretty impressive.

[Simon Blackledge]

Cool thanks.. so anything off digi-beta can be uncompressed. cool..

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[LighthouseMEdia]

Hi we have a complete report on the unit with interview of their rech and video of the unit at freshdv.com

[Simon Blackledge]

Yip.l saw that this afternoon :-) nice!

thanks..

Also love the "over" chap.. lol

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[roryhinds]

Hi Kendal

Do you have a link to your video?

Thanks
Rory

[Simon Blackledge]

see here..

Its older than current page.. subscribe to the podcast,, there all pretty informative.. though the 1:44 intros a touch long ;)

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[Jonathan Smiles]

I use one of these.

Supports up to 10 drives with port-multiplication.

Drives appear as individual drives on the Mac and you RAID-0 with disk utility. I run a 3 drive RAID-0 and a couple of single 500GB drivesin a 5 drive enclosure.

Not screaming fast as it's single lane PCIe maxs out around 100MBps.

eSata connectors come out very easily!

http://www.sonnettech.com/product/images/Tsataexpress34.jpg

http://www.sonnettech.com/product/tempo_sata_express34.html

[Simon Blackledge]

Thanks Johnathan,

What raid boxes are you using? we just got a 8bay one. Really pleased so far. Though need something more portable for the io/hd when we can get our hands on one..

Could really do with a 5 drive enclosure with Raid5 built in.. like a highpoint onboard or something..

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[Jonathan Smiles]

I have the 5 drive Sonnet

http://www.sonnettech.com/product/fusionfamily/images/F500p-tn.gif

They have a flight case friendly 4 drive unit coming.

http://www.sonnettech.com/product/fusionfamily/images/R400_NF-tn.gif

[Simon Blackledge]

ah cool.. will have a mooch about. If your a aja dealer can you PM me.


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[LighthouseMEdia]

sorry I'm late I don't get response notifications from this board for some reason, but here is the link to the clip:

http://www.freshdv.com/2007/04/nab-video-aja-io-hd.html