I'm a video producer at a company which hasn't done video content before, so I'm building the department from the ground up. I'm going to use an AF100 as my A camera, a GH2 as my B camera, and either another GH2 or an HMC150 as my C camera. Back in the studio, I'm upgrading my Edit Bay to a Mac Pro w/ Kona, and I'd like to repurpose my i7 iMac as a video capture bay for others to use. So, Ideally what I'm looking for, is a portable capture hardware which can record to ProRes. I'd have it running in tandem with the iMac most of the time for the capture bay, and then I'd borrow it on shoot days to record to ProRes out from the AF100.
I've been considering the KiPro and KiPro Mini (wish the cards were cheaper), as well as the Ninja. The Ninja is slated to be out next month, but who knows if that will slip, and the reliability of the unit has yet to be seen. That would probably be my choice due to the price. Beyond that, I was thinking of the io HD, but the price seems too high now that it has competition like the KiPro/Mini. If I were to get the io HD, is there a way to attach an external drive to the unit to capture directly to the drive (like the Ninja does), or would I have to have a Macbook inline?
Is there any other hardware out there which can capture ProRes and interface with an iMac via FW800 which is more affordable than the io HD? It's so maddening that Apple intentionally cripples the iMac so badly. It would be a great machine for my capture bay if it only supported Jumbo Frames, offered eSATA without having to be hacked, and included an ExpressCard slot so I could capture ProRes w/ an MXO Mini or something similar.
I've been considering the KiPro and KiPro Mini (wish the cards were cheaper), as well as the Ninja. The Ninja is slated to be out next month, but who knows if that will slip, and the reliability of the unit has yet to be seen. That would probably be my choice due to the price. Beyond that, I was thinking of the io HD, but the price seems too high now that it has competition like the KiPro/Mini. If I were to get the io HD, is there a way to attach an external drive to the unit to capture directly to the drive (like the Ninja does), or would I have to have a Macbook inline?
Is there any other hardware out there which can capture ProRes and interface with an iMac via FW800 which is more affordable than the io HD? It's so maddening that Apple intentionally cripples the iMac so badly. It would be a great machine for my capture bay if it only supported Jumbo Frames, offered eSATA without having to be hacked, and included an ExpressCard slot so I could capture ProRes w/ an MXO Mini or something similar.
