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Kona 2 problem with FCP and G5
I have a Kona 2 card in my G5 with FCP 4.5. I also have the AJA breakout box. Storage unit is Medea drive with Atto UL3 card.
I can firewire HD video shot from Varicam (720p – 24fps) from a Panasonic HD deck. But now I can’t get the video to go uncompressed through the Kona 2. Final Cut won’t capture it. I just get the spinning icon, like it’s confused.
Hector at AJA suggested I use this site for help. I need a fast solution.
Thanks.
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5 Replies
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Give more info.
What easy setup are you using? How much space is on your drives and what does the Kona System test tell you for speed? Are you trying to capture now? Can the Kona card capture anything?
Jeremy
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Hector refered you here, because AJA can’t take responsibility for all these “third party solutions”. How do you know that your Medea drive is fast enough to do uncompressed video. Why don’t you try DVCProHD and see if that works first. Run AJA Kona System test on your Medea drive array – how fast does it perform (and report back the info – in mb/sec).
Have you recently flashed the firmware of your ATTO UL3D card (it ain’t new, that’s for sure) – do you have the latest firmware on your Medea drive array? Do you know how to go into terminal mode on a PC to update the firmware on the Medea ? Which Medea array do you have ? Does it have EIGHT DRIVES in it?If all of this seems like very confusing questions to you, perhaps you should hire someone to assist you with the setup. If you do understand these questions, please write back a response with detailed answers (drive model, drive speed via AJA Kona system test, ATTO driver version and flash version you have loaded). This will help resolve your problems.
If you think this stuff just plugs in and works, you are dreaming.Bob Zelin
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Jeremy:
Thanks for the response.
I think we may have solved our problems. First, we upgraded the Kona 2 card to Kona 2.0. Then we loaded FCP 5.1. Then, we bought an ATTO UL4D card for our Medea (Terabyte – 5 drive) storage drive.
Problem apparently solved.
Wally
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Bob:
Thank you for responding, Bob.
I think we may have solved our problems – at least for now.
We upgraded Final Cut from 4.5 to 5.1. Then, we upgraded the Kona 2 card to version 2.0 firmware. Finally, we put in an ATTO UL4D card for the Medea Terabyte drive.
All of this seems to work now with the Panasonic DVCPro HD deck.
Question: The HD video was shot on a Varicam at 720p, 24fps. When I load this into Final Cut at HD uncompressed, should I load it in at 720p, 59.97? Is that what the deck will want to see when we go to master the program back onto DVCPro tape?
Wally
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The panasonic VTR will do the 2:3 pulldown for you, and spit out the video at 59.94, even if you shot at 23.98. If you are going to finish for TV, and not for feature film release, I see no reason to work at 23.98. Let the VTR do it’s thing, and convert to 59.94, and enter your project into your FCP Kona 2 system at 59.94, and you will have a very easy time working, viewing, and making release dubs for TV release.
Bob Zelin
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