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AJA & HDV
How does AJA handle HDV?
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3 Replies
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Weather you use AVID, AJA, or Blackmagic, AJA makes the converters. You take the output of your Sony HDV VTR, send the analog HD component video into the AJA analog HD component to HDSDI converter (now you have an HD SDI signal), you take the analog audio and use the AJA analog to AES/EBU converter, and you stick both of these digital signals into your Kona 2 (or Blackmagic box, or AVID Adrenaline HD). You use the firewire port for VTR control only. For about $2200, you get all the converters.
Bob Zelin
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Bob is right, if you wish to capture HDV into a different codec such as 1080 DVCPRO-HD, or even HD uncompressed. This method also means you can downconvert the HDV signal on capture, to DV25, DV50, or uncompressed SD!
At NAB, we announced (and were showing, as was Apple) HDV playback support on KONA 2. KONA 2 not only plays out the codec, but also accelerates it via hardware (like our DVCPRO-HD support), thereby taking some of the workload of this codec off of the G5.
This feature will be available when FCP5 ships in May, and is built into every KONA 2 card. KONA 2 can also downconvert the HDV codec in FCP5, in realtime all-the-time, through our built-in 10-bit hardware downconverter.
And, our free KONA TV utility (available on our website) can playout HDV files from the Desktop through KONA 2 (and many many other codecs as well, including Animation codec, etc.)…very cool.
…email or call us with questions!
Thank you,
AJA Sales Department
(530) 274-2048
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Does HDV have timecode?
I heard it did not.
Or is there different versions, consumer and pro
and the pro has timecode?thanks,
dan
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