COW Articles: HDV Format The AJA HD10AVA

[Walter Biscardi]

If you’re working in HDV, definitely read this article. We’ve been using one of these for a 1080i series being shot in HDV for about 5 months now. It’s awesome piece of equipment to get your HDV to SDI.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Vince Gaffney]

I’ve been looking at this. I have a Sony hvr-15mu. Will I have machine control and TC via firewire in FCP 5.1.2? How does it compare to the Convergent Design HD-connect LE?

Any insights are greatly appreciated.

Vince Gaffney

[Chris Poisson]

Hey Bob,

Nice review, I’ve been looking at these, should work well with my Beta deck and Kona LH, I suppose it’s pretty easy to swap it around no?

[Gary Adcock]

[gaffney film] “How does it compare to the Convergent Design HD-connect LE? “

AJA’s hardware combo does not have the rather lengthy delay associated with the Convergent Design.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows

[Vince Gaffney]

thanks gary. that’s an important bit of info

vince

[Jerry Hofmann]

https://www.aja.com/pdf/support/AJA_whitepaper_HDV.pdf

The LH series cards will transcode the HDV. You don’t need the box. You’d need it though for an SDI only card like the Kona 3.

Merry Christmas Chris.

Jerry

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Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D

[Jerry Hofmann]

Nice article!

AJA makes a huge line of these mini converters. Never heard anything but praise for them either.

Jerry

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Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D

[Chris Poisson]

Hey Jerry,

Merry Christams to you too! Thanks for the tip, I didn’t know I could do that with HDV and my card.

[Vince Gaffney]

walter,

Do you find the HD10AVA superior to the A/D conversion of a kona card? Which will better preserve the integrity of the orignal footage?

Thanks,

Vince Gaffney

[Gary Adcock]

[gaffney film] “Do you find the HD10AVA superior to the A/D conversion of a kona card? Which will better preserve the integrity of the orignal footage?”

equal not superior.
the converter is for using when there is a need to convert and embed analog audio and video content
for delivery over longer distances or when there is not analog input available for your nle.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows