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Best Codec for Editing With Aja Kona LE and FCP 6
We just upgraded 3 edit suites from Cinewave to (discontinued) to FCP Studio 2 and added AJA KONA LH and LE cards in the various Macs.
I notice the render time is longer with Kona than with Cinewave. OTHER THAN UNCOMPRESSED –
Is there a good choice codec for rendering, capturing, and sequence that offers good performance, compatibility with after effects, and quality for real-time playback to tape?We thought photo-jpeg – but Kona seemed to indicate that it didn’t make good use of the LH/LE card.
They suggested Apple Pro-Res (Kona ver) 4;2;2 HQ. The quality is good – but it is not too friendly to our older projects that were captured in photo-jpeg or cinewave.
What is everyone out there using and why?
Thanks in Advance for your opinions.
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I like Apple ProRes 422 for HD stuff these days on faster machines with FCS 2. I don’t have really any experience in Photo JPEG for editing but only when I want to compress something for transport on the web. You might want to give DVCPRO HD a try and see how that works for you. I edit natively a lot with DVCPRO HD coming into a Kona 3 and the results are nice.
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[Jim Diavastes] “We thought photo-jpeg – but Kona seemed to indicate that it didn’t make good use of the LH/LE card. “
RT extreme does not support jpeg.
ProRes, DVCPROHD, or UC are the best choices.
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One thing I forgot to mention – we are a broadcast station – and we are still editing in SD – we haven’t made the jump to HD.
So the codec would be for SD.
Also in what formats does the Kona LH card offer excelleration if any??
Thanks again
Jim
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Another vote for ProRes.
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IMX 50 or 30 are alternative solutions to ProRes. IMX 50 is 4:2:2 and is virtually losless. IMX 30 is a 4:2:2 solution to DV. The naked eye cannot tell the difference between IMX50 and UC, and you have a 1/4 the space taken up.
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We shoot on IMX 50 with the Sony Discams – I am reluctant to use it because not many others have the codec.
We have also just purchased a computer with flip factory – to export commercials in file form to our corporate server –
It won’t convert IMX 50 or pro-res –It just gets more fun each day!
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We have been using it for over 3 year with no problems, there are a lot of people using via XDCam disc. But it is not just limited to XDCAM you can capture in the IMX codec with the AJA cards. Flip 4 Mac makes a product for $500 but Sony has a converter for free that encodes or decodes at 12x realtime on Intel Macs.
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We have been using it for over 3 year with no problems, there are a lot of people using via XDCam disc. But it is not just limited to XDCAM you can capture in the IMX codec with the AJA cards. Flip 4 Mac makes a product for $500 but Sony has a converter for free that encodes or decodes at 12x realtime on Intel Macs.
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