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Io HD Installation and Operation Manual — Easy Setups for Typical Uses
Example: select an Io HD as the targeted product in the AJA Control Panel
application. Launch Final Cut Pro. Final Cut Pro is now using the Io HD for its
input/output. Go back to the AJA Control Panel application and select a KONA
LHi as the "targeted" product. Launch the AJA TV application. AJA TV would
now use the LHi for its output. If you switch back to Final Cut Pro, you would
note that it is still uses the Io HD for its input/output. Note that some
applications, like AJA TV, have a provision for playing in the background, so
playback on one product could even continue when switching the targeted device
for use with another application. You can even feed the output from one AJA
product to another AJA product on the same system in such cases.
AJA TV Preferences, Continue Playback when AJA TV is in background
AJA TV optionally supports playback in the background; checkbox “Continue
Playback when AJA TV is in background.
Notes on using
multiple AJA
Products: Performance of multi-product use depends on a variety of factors: CPU usage, RAM,
disk IOPS/bandwidth for streams of video, etc. and therefore performance may vary.
Also be aware that multiple input/output streams are only supported by software that
is explicitly designed for a multi-product environment. Also note that due to
limitations of FireWire bandwidth, only one Io HD product may be used at a time on
a host computer.
Easy Setups for Typical Uses
Final Cut Pro and Io HD together make working with multiple formats an easy
proposition. Inside of Final Cut Pro, equipment and setting presets are available in
groups called Easy Setups, from which you can choose typical system configurations.
A large set of Easy Setups are supplied with Io HD and installed along with the Io HD
software. These canned choices can be used directly or as the basis for making your
own customized Easy Setups unique to your system. By duplicating an Easy Setup and
then making changes to it, you simplify the process of configuring and re-configuring
when working with new formats.
Although this manual assumes you’re familiar with Final Cut Pro and have read its
documentation, let’s review Easy Setups and how to use them effectively with Io HD.
At the simplest level, Final Cut lets you choose and edit presets for capturing media,
device control, and for project sequences. These presets are defined in the
Audio/Video
Settings menu. Just like Easy Setups, there are factory defined choices, plus you can
create and make your own. When you have a set of presets you want to use again, you
can store them as an “Easy Setup.”
On the following pages we’ll further review the Easy Setups menu and Audio/Video
Settings Menu.