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Does the Kona family have real-time HD effects?
Ok, while I await an answer from the BM forum. The HD decklink I just installed doesn’t seem to support any RT effects in 1080 23.98 Uncompressed.
Does the Kona 2, Lh, or Kona 3 have hardware support for 3-way color correction in uncompressed HD?
I ask because we’re doing a HD conform of a feature film and would like some basic color correction abilities. eventually we’ll have a proper tape-to-tape, but until then it would kill me to have to render basic color corrections on a 2 hour piece.
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In ten bit uncompressed you will have to render 3 way CC. even with the fastest raid drives. I am not sure if theis is a QT or AJA software liimitation or hardware limitation.
I know that the RT etreme engine will not hanldle it.
So, Buy twice as much storage plus 10percent for good measure and have a render party.
David
Peace and Love 🙂
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Really? So when the BM documentation says “Real time effects…” the mean only in SD? Does anyone know if the Kona has support.
See, all I want is some quick and dirty RT Color Correction on single layer 1080. We’re conforming a HD screener of a feature film, and won’t have time to get into a proper DaVinci tape-to-tape beforehand. grrr……
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If this is all that you want to accomplish then I would suggest capturing in the DVCPRO HD codec. This will give you some RT CC in HD. It is a 1920×1080 output via hte K2 and you can do more than CC.
You can then output that Timeliine via SDI to a HDCAM or HDCAM SR deck as a screener, no problem.
OR
You can create a HD DVD as a screener and do it tha way.
If this is your end goal go with the DVCPRO HD codec and you will save yourself tim eand headaches. It looks very good too.
David
Peace and Love 🙂
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PS:
All RT in FCP is handled by the pocessors, the ram and the Drive speed.
Most cards have liitle or no Hardware accelleration on board.
The K2 has some acceleration for specific codecs. This is in their literature. The K2 does have DVCPRO HD hardware acceleration built in.
David
Peace and Love 🙂
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thanks. i guess i was used to the old days when FCP 3 had nothing to offer.
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With 8-bit Uncompressed HD you should get quite a bit of RT. I saw a demo of this at IBC last year.
However, I’m not sure how it will handle 2 hour programs OR if you’re running at full quality rendering, but I beilive so.
Simple CC at 8-bit should certainly be sufficient for most work, more advanced things would make you want to got to 10-bit, perhaps looking a Silicon Colors Final Touch HD would be a solution? I reckon they we’re talking about realtime HD color corection on the new G5 (Quad/PCI-e) system.
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