A whole bunch of Xena LH Questions

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[Marcus Ionis] “1) Does the Xena LH or LHe support the HP8200?
If so any major pitfalls?

Yup. Make sure your storage is on the opposite bus (PCIe for Xena LH, PCI-X for LHe)

[Marcus Ionis]
2) Does the Xena LH capture real-time TGA, TIFF, Cineon, BMP image sequences.

Yup

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3) Does it output image sequences in real-time to tape?

Yup

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4) Does the Xena card capture AVI dv/dvcpro in real-time via SDI/HD-SDI

Not currently. Only uncompressed options are supported for capture. All of those options are available for realtime output though.

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5) Does the card output HDV via SD/HD-SDI? Like the KONA2/3 card.

Yup!

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6) Like the KONA 2/3 cards, does the Xena LH perform aspect ratio conversions in SD mode? I.e. 4×3 Anamorphic to 4×3 Letterbox 1.78

Only the Xena2K does SD to SD, not the LH/LHe

[Marcus Ionis]
7) Does the Xena LH card perform upconvertions?

No, but the Xena 2K card does.

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8) Does the card perform a standard 2:3 cadence from SD 24 frames sequence to SD 29.97 tape?

To my knowledge the Xena LHe will do the reverse pulldown for 24p footage.

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9) Does the card support PAL for SD & HD?

Yup

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10) Does the Xena drivers read the 8/10 bit Uncompress SD/HD QT from Final Cut Pro?

Yup

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11) Does the Xena drivers read SD QT using the Blackmagic codec?

Honestly, I’m not sure.

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12) Does the Xena card need house REF or is there a “Free Run” feature like the KONA2/3 card.

It has both freerun and ref, so either or

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13) Does the Xena card have drivers working w/Photoshop? The objective is directly capturing screen grabs using Photoshop.
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Yup.

[Marcus Ionis]

Thank for answering my questions.
Really appreciate it

Marcus