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Connecting composite monitor to FCP with AJA
I have a LHE junction box going between a Sony PVW 2800 and FCP on a G5 Quad. I’m editing component Beta SP. I’d like to be able to monitor digitizing and editing from the timeline. I have a composite NTSC monitor. Right now the only thing I’ve tried is to do is connect the monitor to the composite output of the PVW 2800. That worksm but it’s frustrating to need to keep my Beta Deck on. Is there another way? I’ve heard about a cable that you can connect to the Y output of the junction box that will feed the monitor and also the input of the deck. That sounds like a splitter of some sort, but I’m wondering how that would affect the component input to the Beta Deck when mastering to tape.
Also, I’m getting a black sync line on the monitor, how do I add a reference signal? Do I connect something to the reference in of the deck? Any help would be appreciated.
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You can feed Composite out of the Kona by simply selecting Composite from the Kona Control Panel. The Y output of the Kona also feeds Composite in this mode.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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Greg,
If keeping your Beta deck on is all that frustrates you, count your blessings! That’s how I monitor on my Kona LH-based system. For reference, you should be using a black burst generator, you can get one with 6 outputs for around 300 bucks.
Alternatives for monitoring would be some kind of D-A converter, there are so many, and there’s that Matrox MXO, you could look at that…
https://www.matrox.com/video/products/mxo/home.cfm
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Unlike Io, Kona shares the output connections between Composite, Component, and YC. This is an inconvenient setup as you have to change the connections as well as the setting in the control panel. If you have the Kona breakout box it is even more difficult as the connections are quite close together, requiring very small fingers or a BNC tool for connection and removal. I would go ahead and just leave your deck on as the device for transcoding between the Kona component out to the monitor’s composite in.
Lee
Lee Berger
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[Chris Poisson] “If keeping your Beta deck on is all that frustrates you, count your blessings!”
Ain’t that the truth…? Monitoring through a deck is not an uncommon practice. If you wanted to spend money, i’d say get a component monitor and put that in the chain.
Jeremy
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[Lee Berger] “Unlike Io, Kona shares the output connections between Composite, Component, and YC. This is an inconvenient setup as you have to change the connections as well as the setting in the control panel.”
Depends on your workflow. We run three Konas and one Io and don’t find one any more / less convenient than the others.
[Lee Berger] “If you have the Kona breakout box it is even more difficult as the connections are quite close together, requiring very small fingers or a BNC tool for connection and removal.”
We have mulitple people here who change the connections on a regular basis on all three of our Kona’s and this has never been an issue. I would never recommend anyone purhcase any Kona product WITHOUT the breakout box. It’s much cleaner and easier to use than the standard snake of cables.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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It’s probably better for the capacitors to keep the deck on than have sitting with no power for long periods. Drum (heads), threading (load mech) and tape reel motors are the things that you have to worry about.
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