• AJA Video Systems

  Rather Urgent: Kona 2 and HDV set up.

  Posted by Craig Meadows on November 10, 2005 at 4:00 pm

  Working on a project shot on Sony Z1U HDV camera in HDV 1080i/50i.

  Have Kona-2, FCP5HD, SATA Raid, HD Monitors, and AJA HD10A analog to component HD converter if needed.

  Final product will be NTSC SD.

  Camera is video source for Kona-2…So should I use the firewire or HD analong outs using converter?

  What should my FCP easy set up be? …and how should I configure the Kona-2 control panel for this particular project?

  Any workflow tips greatly appreciated…thanks!

  Alexander Serpico replied 20 years, 9 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Christopher Karcher

  November 10, 2005 at 5:49 pm

  I can walk you through the process as I have done this many times. IT’s easier to discuss…email your contact info and I’ll give you a call.
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  Craig Meadows

  November 10, 2005 at 5:54 pm

  Hey Christopher, thanks for the help. Your email info isn’t on your profile so I don’t mind leaving the company info. here:

  Craig Meadows
  Florida Production Group
  Pensacola, FL
  850-474-6566
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  David Battistella

  November 10, 2005 at 6:39 pm

  Craig,

  this might help you out too.

  https://www.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=98&page=/articles/battistella_david/recapturing_HDV/index.html

  David
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  Alexander Serpico

  November 14, 2005 at 8:22 pm

  Just went through this debacle this weekend.
  HDV is sluggish and a bit of pain in general…
  Rendering takes almost three times as longer than DVCPROHD.
  However, i must say it doesn’t look terrible and it plays out through the Kona pretty well.
  When finished cutting we laid it out in real time to HDCAM, easy.

  I never could figure out how to edit back to HDV tape tho… (not like i needed too, but that was annoying)

  Looking back, id like not to have to work in that format again in the future (unless it gets converted/new master tapes prior to editing).

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