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Aja control room dropped frames.
According to aja s data rate calculator 8 bit uncompressed is about 28 mb second.
You should not be experiencing dropped frames.
I was able to get 8k output to display from premiere pro but it dropped frames during prores playback even at 24p.
Double check under the fcp systems settings to be sure that the xserve is set as your scratch disk.
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Aja control room is unified cross platform software for ingest playback and output with aja products.
Aja control room is designed to be used with aja hardware devices and it can also operate as a stand alone media player with full screen playback and host system audio monitoring supporting high quality professional media file types and formats.
You xserve should be able to sustain over 120 mb second.