AJA Codec & Final Cut Pro

[David Roth weiss]

[eric sampson] “I am importing into FCP some beta footage that was captured with another computer which has the KONA card installed.”

How was it captured, 8-bit uncompressed, 10-bit uncompressed? If you don’t know the answer to the question how could you possibly expect to create a sequence with the proper settings anyway? If is was capytured uncompressed, Kona uses the Apple codecs for these and you don’t even need the Kona codecs installed. Find out precisely what codec was used and we can better better help you.

[eric sampson] “There are no AJA sequence settings in my Final Cut Pro”

As I explained above, you may not need the Kona codecs instaled, but more importantly, it doesn’t sound like you sucessfully installed them if they aren’t showing up in your sequenece settings or Easy Setups.

DRW

[Walter Biscardi]

[eric sampson] “There are no AJA sequence settings in my Final Cut Pro and I have tried all the different sequences i.e. DV/NTSC, Uncompressed, DVCPRO etc…. and I still have to render the footage.”

What are the Item Properties > Format for your clips? AJA uses standard Apple codecs so you should be able to play the clips on any machine.

You probably have a mismatch in your Clip and Sequence Settings.

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[Eric Sampson]

Thanks for your suggestions. I rechecked the sequence settings and found that 8-Bit uncompressed works great on this Beta footage.

***Since I mixing MiniDV and 8-Bit Beta footage in the same sequence timeline is there a setting that will allow me to not have to render?

[Morten]

Finalcut does not fully support multible codecs in the same timeline.
Since part is 4:2:2 (uncompressed) and part is 4:1:1 (DV) you will have to render.

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[Kevin Wild]

“Finalcut does not fully support multible codecs in the same timeline”

This month. 🙂

[Stuart Simpson]

[Kevin Wild] “Finalcut does not fully support multible codecs in the same timeline”

Ah the heady days of Cinewave… 🙂

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[Jonas Cox]

Hi Eric,
I am attempting the same workflow you described in this thread: editing 8-bit uncompressed Kona media on an FCP that doesn’t have a Kona card. So, if I am to understand correctly, all you had to do was change the sequence settings to 8-bit uncompressed (codec not specified) and you didn’t have to render the 8-bit Kona media? And you didn’t even have to have the Kona codec loaded on your Mac?

TIA!
Jonas