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Cheapest way to HD reference monitoring
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[Tim Allison] ” and the ONLY complete solution I’ve found is a full-blown Io hooked through the Kona 3. The problem is….that’s a pretty expensive combo. If I’ve missed something, please point it out.”
Well, it’s almost complete. The full blown io and Kona 3 won’t get your HDV footage in for editing in the DVCPro HD codec(if that’s what you want to do). If you need this capability, then you will need the HD10AVA, the Kona 3, and a patch bay. That way you can patch the connections you need in and out when you need them.
The io and Kona is a great combo (I run that combo constantly) but since I haven’t had an HDV project come through the door yet, there’s no reason for the AVA for me. I use the io for a/d/d/a conversion for my Kona 2 and it works flawlessly.
The Kona LH is your best bet as it allow you to transcode your HDV on the fly on the way in, monitor it on the way out, and move your analog video and audio in and out without any other boxes or converters. How much up and cross converting will you be doing? Also, if you are planning to get a Kona 3, you will need to upgrade to a MacPro. The Kona 3 is PCIe only.
Jeremy
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Jeremy
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[JeremyG] “The Kona LH is your best bet as it allow you to transcode your HDV on the fly on the way in, monitor it on the way out, and move your analog video and audio in and out without any other boxes or converters.”
Except that he mentions Upconverting Beta in another post, so then he would be looking at the Kona 2 / 3 depending on PCI-X or PCIe configuration.
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That’s why I asked how much up-converting he will be doing. There’s a trade off here. If he only ‘thinks’ he’s going to do some up-converting every once in a while, I am not sure if the more expensive rig of a Kona 3, an AVA, flying cow and and patch panels and cables are the correct purchase. There are other ways to up-convert in FCP that will prove satisfactory, especially if it’s a shot here an there. The LH will be great for his Sony HDV camera and will require less patching and will allow him to continue to work with the Beta SP material it sounds like he is still working with a lot. Eventually he will needs to upgrade to a MacPro and The LH will be the cheapest stop gap until that happens as he slowly migrates to HD with the cheapest solution possible. As you know, any internal cards he buys will have to be replaced. On the other hand the AVA or io will travel to the new system, Tim. Once the full blown HD comes in then a more expensive rig would make sense.
[Tim Allison] “But right now, we just want to break into the HD world, with a decent HDV camera. We can input the HDV material into FCP via a Firewire cable. But what is the cheapest way to set up HD reference monitoring?”
Perhaps I am wrong, but it makes sense to me. I guess I am trying to read between the lines a little too much. It seems to me that Tim wants to keep it cheap and ‘learn some things’ about HDV. He also mentioned cross converting which will require a Kona 3, but he has a G5 PCI-X. There’s some thinking that Tim has to do, either way, be prepared to spend money.
Tim, AJA has a white paper on working with HDV footage and the Kona LH that might be of use to you:
https://www.aja.com/pdf/support/AJA_whitepaper_HDV.pdf
Jeremy
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[Tim Allison] “But what is the cheapest way to set up HD reference monitoring?”
There’s always the option of AJA’s HDP converter or the Blackmagic HDLink coupled with with an HD-resolution LCD. Not really suited for color correction, but the price is nice and you’ll get full-raster 1080, something you won’t get with a CRT or even the Panasonic BT-LH series monitors.
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