AJA Unveils Io HD
AJA’s new IoHD is the latest in the award-winning Io family of products—an effortless, transportable plug-in solution to working with HD and SD in Final Cut Pro 6 on a Macbook Pro or Mac Pro computer. With a single FireWire 800 connection, Io HD supports the amazing new Apple ProRes 422 Codec—natively, in hardware, to bring production-quality HD editing to laptops!Io HD is the only device in the world that supports Apple ProRes 422 and Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) in hardware, enabling true 10-bit editing on an Apple laptop. With this high performance hardware and codec, you can work on the road with 720 and 1080 HD, all in full-raster 10 bit 4:2:2—and in realtime!
Features include:
- SD-SDI and HD-SDI I/O (2)
- Component I/O (SD and HD)
- Composite and S-video I/O
- HDMI I/O
- 16-channel embedded SDI 24-bit audio I/O
- AES/EBU 8-channel unbalanced audio I/O
- Analog 4-channel balanced audio I/O(XLR)
- Analog 2-channel unbalanced audio (RCA)
- Apple ProRes422 Codec Support (in hardware), 145Mb and 220Mb bitrates, in 720 and 1080 HD full-raster 10 bit 4:2:2—and in realtime
- Genlock with loopthrough
- RS-422 machine control
- LTC Timecode I/O
- Connects to Mac via a single FireWire 800 cable
- For Final Cut ProTM 6 on Mac OS X
More to come...
ABOUT AJA
Since 1993, AJA Video has been a leading manufacturer of high-quality and cost-effective digital video interface, conversion and Desktop solutions supporting the professional broadcast and post- production markets. With headquarters in Grass Valley, California, AJA maintains an extensive sales channel of dealers and systems integrators around the world. For further information, please see their website http://www.aja.com
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Last updated April 16, 2007 at 10:39am