AJA's Ki Pro Mini

摘要

Based in Maryland, Cocklins Video Services is an Emmy Award-winning company that has been in business for more than 30 years. Our work runs the gamut from broadcast documentary video production to corporate training videos to Web video for clients including ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, PBS, National Geographic, and corporate and government agencies. We brought AJA's Ki Pro Mini digital recorder in house a few months ago, pairing it with the Sony PMW-F3 camera. We do all of our editing and finishing on Avid Media Composer 5.0. I first heard about the recorder last year when we put in our order for the F3. The camera natively captures XDCAM 8-bit 4:2:0 35Mb/s but outputs via HD-SDI or HDMI 10-bit 4:2:2. We wanted a recorder capable of recording at 10 bits with the 4:2:2 sample rate because most of our clients want broadcast standard or higher. At the time, the Ki Pro Mini was the only 10-bit recorder available and was within our price range. I had never edited in ProRes before, and after reading Apple's white paper, I was clearly impressed with their approach to the codec. When I got the recorder in for testing, I was blown away. ProRes is a great codec, and the output from the recorder is high quality.