Tap into the full power of Final Cut Pro's RT Extreme Build your professional and affordable editing studio using the Aurora PipeHD™ with CCIR 601 resolution at uncompressed rates! Primary Use The Aurora PipeHD™ is the Hi-Def editor's dream: packing a powerful punch in a very compact package -- at an amazingly low price point! Aurora's PipeHD™ is specifically designed to take full advantage of the Final Cut Pro RT Extreme architecture while providing the professional-level audio and video inputs and outputs that editors demand. This flexibility allows for a wide variety fo compression and Input/Output options. With RT Extreme, your RT effects capabilities scale with your CPU's power. Design: The Pipe™ family of cards represents a radical departure from traditional low-cost solutions. Aurora engineers have crafted a high-performance custom PCI interface specifically for doing video operations. Unlike solutions which use "off-the-shelf" PCI interfaces, the Pipe™ core is designed specifically for the demands of uncompressed video. We have painstakingly optimized every aspect of our PCI core for the highest performance in the latest G5 PCI-X environments. This core technology represents the baseline for future high-performance Aurora products. Features: NTSC SD Resolutions: 720x480, 720x486, 360x240, 360x243 PAL SD Resolutions: 720x576, 360x288 HD Resolutions: 1920x1080, 1280x720 HD Frame Rates: 23.976, 25, 29.97, 30, 59.95, 60 Progressive and Interlaced HD formats Compatible with Apple's new Final Cut Pro HD using the DVCProHD compression format for up to 4 streams of RT at 1280x720 Full RT Extreme Integration Extended Mac desktop allows you to put application windows on the NTSC/PAL output for Photoshop or other graphics applications All outputs simultaneously active 10-bit Digital (SDI) video input with embedded audio 10-bit Digital (SDI) video output with embedded audio 10-bit Digital (SDI) monitor output with embedded audio 10-bit Dedicated Analog Component output (no external converter necessary) 10-bit Dedicated Analog S-Video output for monitoring (no external converter necessary) 10-bit Dedicated Analog Composite output for monitoring (no external converter necessary) 4-channel 24-bit AES (SPDIF-compatible) digital audio inputs 6-channel 24-bit AES (SPDIF-compatible) digital audio outputs Up to 8-channel SDI-embedded digital audio inputs1 8-channel SDI-embedded digital audio outputs Cost saving RS422 deck control interface Perfect synchronization between Macintosh desktop and video display True Color filtering for enhanced colorspace conversion Upper/Lower field PAL supported, no field rendering required A true QuickTime solution for modern QuickTime applications: No need for 3rd party software to preview video outside of Final Cut Pro Single- and Dual-Field playback control allows for a perfect still image for color correcting or graphics editing Genlock is not required but is compatible with your "Studio House Sync" 1QuickTime only supports 2 concurrent audio channels Compatibility Aurora's PipeHD™ is custom designed for QuickTime and Mac OS X, seamlessly integrating with Final Cut Pro and After Effects, providing ease of use and tightly integrated controls over the digitizing and playback drivers. See our FAQ for hardware requirement guidelines. Because of the uncompressed-only nature of this card, significant resources are consumed by the video transfer even if the audio data is your primary concern. Therefore, the Aurora PipeHD™ is likely not the best choice for using with audio tools such as Digidesign's ProTools and Motu's Digital Performer. The IgniterX Lite, with it's MJPEG compression, is a more suitable product for audio-focused projects. |