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.
