AJA Kona movie player software needed

[Gary Adcock]

[Francois Stark] ” I have posted here regarding this bug, and have also sent a mail to AJA (support@aja.com). No response. “

Francois

I emailed support right after you posted this and it is a known issue so maybe they saw the 2 emails from US as one single issue.

They have identified the issue and I was told it will be fixed in the next driver release, but I am not sure when that will be.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows for the Digitally Inclined
Chicago, IL

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[Jeremy Garchow]

Final Cut Pro? Turn on the tc burn in feature on the Kona. Should be picking up proper sequence tc there. If you need clip tc, then you need to change the seq tc to match.

Jeremy

[Gary Adcock]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Turn on the tc burn in feature on the Kona. Should be picking up proper sequence tc there. If you need clip tc, then you need to change the seq tc to match.”

nope.

He is working thru the Kona software tools, FCP is not part of the layoff he uses, and the issue is specific to PAL frame rates not being read properly when output to the screen, the Viewer is reading the file incorrectly.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows for the Digitally Inclined
Chicago, IL

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[Jeremy Garchow]

Cool, just offering a suggestion as he asked if there were any other tools.

And I should add that FCP works here on 1080i25 content.

[Francois Stark]

Thanks Gary
Francois

Regards
Francois

[Francois Stark]

Hi Gary

Do you know of any other simple program that can do this? Maybe Final Cut Express? Would it show correct 25fps timecode in the UI?

Thanks
Francois

Regards
Francois

[Gary Adcock]

[Francois Stark] “Do you know of any other simple program that can do this? Maybe Final Cut Express? Would it show correct 25fps timecode in the UI? “

Virtual VTR?

Francois,

A little birdy whispered in my ear and told me that this is only an issue when the clips do not have source TC in them {ie: captured or created w/o TC}.
Could you tell me if this is true on your system?

I am working on a project and cannot change my system to test this.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows for the Digitally Inclined
Chicago, IL

https://blogs.creativecow.net/garyadcock

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/adcock_gary/AJAIOHD.php

[Francois Stark]

Hi Gary

I am capturing a studio’s live program output. I am using AJA Deck Control application to capture. So, no, I am not connected to a deck. And I suppose there would then be no timecode captured.

The erroneous timecode displayed in the UI is still caused by a bug in AJA Deck Control and AJA TV. And both apps display “25 fps” – so they read the correct timecode standard back from the file, but they don’t use it to calculate the current timecode – they use 30 fps.

Regarding Virtual VTR: I spent two weeks trying to get that app stable. Used a G5 and a Mac Pro, internal and fibre SAN, with LSe and LHe capture cards – I could not get it to capture reliably on any combination of hardware. It always dropped frames at different random intervals, while AJA deck control captured flawlessly using the same hardware. I actually bought a copy of the Virtual VTR – I still have the dongle here.

Thanks for your input
Francois

[Gary Adcock]

[Francois Stark] “I am capturing a studio’s live program output. I am using AJA Deck Control application to capture. So, no, I am not connected to a deck. And I suppose there would then be no timecode captured. “

Yeah So why are you not using “house sync” or TOD for the capture?
there are numerous ways to get TC into your system, regardless of the card you are using, this is the root of the issue.

“The erroneous timecode displayed in the UI is still caused by a bug in AJA Deck Control and AJA TV. And both apps display “25 fps” – so they read the correct timecode standard back from the file, but they don’t use it to calculate the current timecode – they use 30 fps”

I understand what the issue is, what I am telling you is that because you are not capturing or defining AUX TC- it is only the TC reader is defaulting to NDF 30 fps and it is doing this because of the way you are capturing. (it shouldn’t but it does.)

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows for the Digitally Inclined
Chicago, IL

https://blogs.creativecow.net/garyadcock

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/adcock_gary/AJAIOHD.php

[Francois Stark]

Mmmmm you just gave me an idea… We actually use LTC to distribute TOD to several studio clocks. Would I be able to get that TOD into a AJA LHe card? Balanced audio?

Regards
Francois