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New FCP setup question
I am about to upgrade my Mac pro to a 8 core with a Kona 3 card. I use FCP, after affects and maya in my usual workflow. This is a naive question but will the kona card act as my graphics card and allow better performance replacing my usual ATI radeon card??
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No. Two separate cards, two separate functions.
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To elaborate on what Jeremy said, a Kona card is a video I/O card for input and output of a true broadcast video signal and for proper monitoring of the true video signal to broadcast video monitors and/or TVs. The Kona card is not a video acceleration card — it provides some realtime onboard hardware scaling for certain anamorphic codecs, such as DVCPRO100 and HDV, but provides no rendering acceleration at all.
A computer display card, typically improperly referred to as a video card, is used for displaying to computer monitors, which are incapable of accurately displaying a true broadcast video signal. The higher end cards do have onboard GPU processing that can take some of the rendering burden off of the computer processors in apps that are configured for it.
As Jeremy said, computer card and video I/O cards are very different things with completely different purposes.
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Thanks guys, that clears it up. What I really want is to be able to monitor and grade basically on an external LCD monitor such as panasonics TH-50PF10UK as well as run the heavy 3d software and be able to deal with some red footage. I know this is alot to ask but I figured that 8 core 2.26 Nehalem mac with the kona 3 and a ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB.
what do you wreckon
cheers sam
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The only issue is that grading on the 50″ Panasonic Pro plasma will not be broadcast accurate. You can get these monitors close however, and for many projects that may be all that is required so long as you do pay strict attention to both your waveform and vectorscope. I would certainly recommend professionally calibrating the Pany monitor, or at least do it yourself very carefully using a true broadcast quality monitor as reference.
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It seems like the most affordable/proffessional option.
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[sam White] ” What I really want is to be able to monitor and grade basically on an external LCD monitor such as panasonics TH-50PF10UK”
Then look at the MXO2 by Matrox. That outputs HDMI and allows you to balance the monitor to bars, and gives you a BLUE ONLY option. Not a TRUE broadcast monitor, but the next best thing.
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[sam White] “It seems like the most affordable/proffessional option. “
I’m not sure why you’ve selected the Kona 3 over the new Kona LHi??? The LHi is less than half the price.
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Note the phrase “RED footage” a couple of posts up. The LHi won’t be able to display the footage at it’s native resolution. I believe that the Kona 3 can.
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[Tom Matthies] “The LHi won’t be able to display the footage at it’s native resolution. I believe that the Kona 3 can.”
Yes, good catch Tom.
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