Apple announced during yesterdays NAB2007 Keynote that it had teamed with AJA to deliver ioHD. No information is available on Apple’s website regarding ioHD, apart from a feature video from AJA.
While talking about ioHD Apple said in the keynote, “You can edit HD on location on your MBP — it’s everything in and out from ProRes. It’s really a new paradigm in post-production. It’s really made possible by Final Cut Pro, ProRes, and the IO-HD . I think it’s going to be another Apple earthquake that shakes things up in the post-production industry.”
AJA lists the following as official specifications for ioHD:
- Apple ProRes 422 and
- Apple ProRes 422 HQ Codec, SD, HD 720/1080
- Full-raster 10 bit 4:2:2, realtime, in hardware
- Up/down/cross-conversion, 10-bit, realtime, in hardware
- SD-SDI and HD-SDI I/O (2)
- Component I/O (SD and HD)
- Composite and S-video I/O
- HDMI video w/2-channel audio I/O
- Embedded SDI 8-channel audio I/O
- AES/EBU 8-channel unbalanced audio I/O
- Analog 4-channel balanced audio I/O (XLR)
- Analog 2-channel unbalanced audio output (RCA)
- Genlock with loopthrough
- RS-422 machine control
- LTC Timecode I/O
- Connects to Mac via a single FireWire 800 cable
- For Apple Final Cut Studio 2 on Mac OS X
- 3-year Warranty
Of notable interest Apple showed different images of ioHD during its keynote compared to what AJA is showing on its website.
Rear of ioHD shown during Apple’s Keynote yesterday | Photo courtesy Engadget
Rear of ioHD as shown on AJA’s website (note the presence of AJA logos)
Front of ioHD shown in the Keynote yesterday | Photo courtesy Engadget
Front of ioHD shown on AJA’s website (note the presence of AJA logos)
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