Tap into the full power of Final Cut Pro's RT Extreme Build your professional and affordable editing studio using the Aurora PipeStudio™ with CCIR 601 resolution at uncompressed rates! Primary Use The Aurora PipeStudio™ is the ultimate standard definion card: packing a powerful punch with its industrial quality 2U rackmount breakout box -- at an incredible price point! Aurora's PipeStudio™ is specifically designed to take full advantage of the Final Cut Pro RT Extreme architecture while providing every commonly available professional-level audio and video input and output on an Industrial-quality rackmountable breatout box. 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 so-called "extreme" solutions which use "off-the-shelf" PCI interfaces and consumer-quality analog I/O parts, the PipeStudio™ is designed specifically for the demands of uncompressed video and our analog interfaces offer 12-bits of precision in both input and output conversions. 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: 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 and output with embedded audio additional 10-bit Digital (SDI) monitor output with embedded audio 10-bit Dedicated Analog Component input and output (no external converter necessary) 10-bit Dedicated Analog S-Video input and output for monitoring (no external converter necessary) 10-bit Dedicated Analog Composite input and output for monitoring (no external converter necessary) Selectable 2-channel 24-bit analog or 4-channel AES digital audio inputs and outputs on balanced XLR jacks Selectable 2-channel 24-bit analog or 4-channel AES digital audio inputs and outputs on unbalanced RCA jacks 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 PipeStudio™ 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 PipeStudio™ 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. |