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FCPUG San Francisco SuperMeet: AJA show off the Ki Pro

Recorded live at the FCPUG SuperMeet, San Francisco, February 5th, 2010. AJA Product Manager, Jon Thorn, shows off the Ki Pro. The Ki Pro by AJA is a portable hard disc recorder which records direct to ProRes standard or high quality. This enables one to bypass the compression of the affordable cameras and achieve superior results to those which can be achieved with highly compressed codecs.

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Run-through of the Ki Pro by Jon Thorn

Jon has been heavily involved with the Ki Pro - it has been described as his "baby". His enthusiasm for the product shines through as he explains in detail that this product functions as a 10-bit ProRes recorder, enables one to up-convert, down-convert or cross convert the video signal, and can be used as a recorder/playback device for high quality mastering level performance.

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