Duplicate First Frame on Edit to Tape

[Thomas Mcnamara]

(Except I’ve since updated to 10.5.4 and FCP 6.0.4 per Gary’s advice.)

[Todd Dalton]

Hi,

This might be a ‘dead’ thread but here goes: both my system and the other systems I’ve worked on with Aja Kona 3 cards in HD experience a 2 frame delay on the cross-converted output when going from HD>SD or visa-versa. I’ve always considered it a fact of life that it takes 2 frames for the Aja to do a conversion – which is fair enough. Almost all (if not all) purpose-built aspect ratio/standards convertors take a frame or two to process the picture.

Consequently it’s not possible to drop an individual shot in. You have to drop in the entire sequence from black to black.

Hope this helps and wasn’t too late! 🙂

Todd

[Gary Adcock]

[Todd Dalton] “‘ve worked on with Aja Kona 3 cards in HD experience a 2 frame delay on the cross-converted output when going from HD>SD or visa-versa. I’ve always considered it a fact of life that it takes 2 frames for the Aja to do a conversion”

Actually it has been a one frame since the Kona 3 came out, and yes it is a fixed period of time that for that or any kind of conversion (and is governed by SMPTE)

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[Ramona Howard]

Todd,

Consequently it’s not possible to drop an individual shot in. You have to drop in the entire sequence from black to black.

Although the AJA board is a frame delayed for conversion we have made inserts entirely possible for a single frame within Rave (having to lay off the entire sequence is crazy). It boils down to much more than just the I/O device but that of good coding for all other aspects. It is about bringing the entire solution into unison 🙂

If you have a clear understanding of each components requirements it usually can be worked around. Just thought I would throw that out there.

Cheers,
Ramona