Capturing digi

[Christian Vassallo]

Hi Gary

Thanks for you input – i was hoping that my RT was set to unlimited but alas is it set to safe, and i’m using a Mac Pro 2 x 3 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon with 8gb RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT graphics card and brand new Kona 3. Could there be something wrong with the signal being sent from my digi deck? A simple switch that’s accidentally been flicked perhaps?

Thanks to all for your your continued input

[Gary Adcock]

[Christian Vassallo] “and brand new Kona 3. “

Christian,
did you make sure to update the firmware on the card that comes with the new Kona Driver?

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
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[Christian Vassallo]

Yeah, when i installed it i went to the website and downloaded the most up-to-date drivers as of last week.

[Paul Provost]

how about the kona control panel? it is very easy to have this set incorrectly so that you are converting the output to something else without even knowing it. i would carefully go through all the tabs and settings and make sure those are all ok.

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[Arnie Schlissel]

[gary adcock] “did you make sure to update the firmware on the card that comes with the new Kona Driver?”

[Christian Vassallo] “Yeah, when i installed it i went to the website and downloaded the most up-to-date drivers as of last week.”

Firmware and drivers are different things. The firmware updates the Kona card itself, the drivers tell your Mac how to talk to the Kona.

Arnie
Post production is not an afterthought!
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[Christian Vassallo]

Hi Paul

Thanks for your post. I changed a couple of things in my control panel, the main difference being i changed my reference from Freerun to Video In.

Thanks to everyone who shared their time in helping with this thread. In the end i cracked the problem and i must say that although it makes me out to look like a complete fool i still have no idea how it happened – the clips were being captured with a frame size of 767×576, not 720×576 like PAL should be. I have no idea how this happened – as far as i know all my capture settings were fine – it’s pretty difficult to get it wrong with Easy Setup! Anyway, that coupled with the fact that i set my field dominance to None instead of Upper was the source of the problem. (I had mixed formats in my original timeline which is why i changed it – i have now applied the shift fields filter to half the clips and kept the sequence dominance to upper)

Once again, thanks to everyone who took the time to help me out.

[Arnie Schlissel]

[Christian Vassallo] “the main difference being i changed my reference from Freerun to Video In.”

Before Bob gets around to it, let me suggest that you pick up an AJA Gen10 sync generator. For around $400 US, it will sync PAL, NTSC and HD. Black Magic makes a similar product for $300 US, BTW.

Arnie
Post production is not an afterthought!
https://www.arniepix.com/

[Christian Vassallo]

Thanks for the heads up Arnie – i was already looking at the Black Magic one today – i’ll order it now.