Upgrading Igniter to monitor HD footage?
by Aaron D Hose
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Jun 14, 2006 at 4:00:58 pm
Hi all. We're in the process of acquiring an HVX200 and getting both our edit suites retrofitted for HD. Questions...how to retrofit our two Igniter cards to be able to view HD footage from a HVX200 on a FCP timeline? Our Igniters don't currently have SDI ins/outs. Also, what monitors would you recommend? We're looking to spend around $6,000 total for two monitors.
Re: Upgrading Igniter to monitor HD footage? by Michael Alberts on Jun 16, 2006 at 8:03:00 pm
I hate to break the bad news, but there is no way you can view your 720P or 1080i footage from the HVX-200 camera in SD or HD using an Igniter card. I've had to recommend to several companies now shooting with that format to upgrade from Pipe Studio to either a KonaLH or a Kona2. It's sad. We all love our Aurora products, but HD development seems to have ceased quite some time ago. We've still got one room running a PipeStudio, which is still the best SD solution for FCP, but most of us are working in HD now. Or both HD and SD. We were forced to switch to Kona2 a year ago for this very reason. Half our clients are working in HD now.
One possible solution for you might be purchasing the Panasonic 1200a deck ($25,000) and using that as a pass through for the HD/Firewire signal, the deck converts to SD and then you can view on a 16x9 SD monitor like the Sony PVM or BVM series.
Re: Upgrading Igniter to monitor HD footage? by John Pale on Jun 18, 2006 at 2:47:38 pm
Yep. It's sad. Just upgraded to an AJA Kona as well. Couldn't wait any longer for an HD product. First time since 2000 I have not had an Aurora product in my machine.
