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Do Kona and Blackmagic play nice together?
Hello all, here is my question. We currently have a G5 with a Kona2 installed, and we are buying an additional Mac Pro to install either a Blackmagic or Kona in. Currently the powers that be are leaning more in favor of Blackmagic My concerns are, if I capture video on a Blackmagic equipped system, will it be usable on the Kona equipped system, and vice versa? Are the Kona2 codecs and Blackmagic codecs reliant on the hardware in order to use that codec in the timeline? Or can I just install both sets of codecs on each machine and be okay?
If this kind of setup works, has anyone run into any type of conflict with having both sets of codecs on the systems at once? I recall a few months back when I updated the Kona, The conflict checker found a Blackmagic Codec on our system, but I don’t remember if we had to delete it or not.
Any input would be appreciated, thanks
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We have both cards running in different systems connected by a SAN. We haven’t had any codec incompatability issues. We can work on a project regardless of which system we have available.
We use DV, DVCPRO50, DVCPROHD, Uncompressed 8-bit and 10-bit codecs.
I’m not sure how ProRes will work.
-Russ
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[Vintageseltzer] “f this kind of setup works, has anyone run into any type of conflict with having both sets of codecs on the systems at once? I recall a few months back when I updated the Kona, The conflict checker found a Blackmagic Codec on our system, but I don’t remember if we had to delete it or not.”
the kona cards do not run with the BMD codecs installed.
Both products use the native apple codecs for Uncompressed and both also work with DVCPROHD
gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
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As a blackmagic product owner I would stay away from it and stick with AJA.
BlackMagic support is nearly non-existant. They have 1 (thats right 1) single individual taking care of North American support and I can’t tell you how painful it is dealing with them when there is a problem.
Right now with driver 6.2 (the first one supporting fcp 6) there are a few small problems and some of us are unable to use it until they fix the problem and their forum response has been zero.
I’ve had it with blackmagic design, they lost me as a faithful customer because of this repeated support issues.
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I also use both Black Magic and AJA products (in different systems) and I will just say this: If I need a piece of hardware and AJA makes it, there is no need in my mind to look any further!
We have the IOLA, IOLD, Kona 2 and Kona 3, and some SDI converters and they all have been great products. The couple of times I’ve called for support I get actual engineers on the phone (I once had two guys helping me out!).
Read the posts on the AJA Kona board and the Blackmagic board, you’ll see the difference-
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