Upgrading Igniter Componenet i/o to G5

It sounds by the age of your system that you purchsed your Igniter several years ago. It's most likely the older 5 volt card. You would need to upgrade your card to the newer 3.3 volt card for it to work in a G5. This is fairly expensive upgrade. In most situations it's cheaper to just purchase one of the newer Pipe cards or Pipe Studio. Aurora give a trade in discount. Remember, the Igniter card was designed back in the old Blue and White G3 days. Most of us have gotten four to five years of use out of this card.

http://www.auroravideosys.com/support/faqs.php#igniterG5

If you need to do 24fps film editing, the Igniter is still the only card that does true 24fps capture and playback. I'm keeping my Igniter around for that very reason. I've got two more 35mm features that I'll be editing in which case I'll need my Igniter. All my other work is done with the Pipe Pro.


Michael Alberts
Ambidextrous Productions, Inc.

Have the old component card and have upgraded to a G5 as well. In bringing over a ton of projects onto the G5 in FCP 4.5, I have a lot of timelines set for the Aurora codec which I now can't run because I don't have a card. What should I switch the codec to for best quality? thanks all.

Gee Robert,

I guess you could transcode it all to DVC pro 50. How do you plan on capturing any new media?

David

If you need to go to DVD then just go striaght from the Aurora codec.

David

I had that problem when I upgraded to Final Cut Pro HD. In order to open up projects in Final Cut Pro 4 I had to uninstall HD or I would get the same dialogue box about changing codecs. Hope this helps