FCP/Aja Kona LHe – frame dropping trouble – need help!

[Gary Adcock]

[Technique] “Capturing is apparently OK, as well as rendering, but we can only read our sequences when the AJA monitoring is disabled… “

then something is incorrectly set in your FCP set up.
Are monitoring in HD or In SD?

I am assuming you are working in 50i, is your FCP easy set up correct for monitor and playback?

“strange thing is when I run the AJA test, the reading graphs drops very low.”
that is a very good indication that something is wrong, with Xraids you need to make sure that Cache is turned off and that all of the xraid controllers have the same amount of memory.

and I hope you are not working on a 7 T array in raid 0 – that means if something fails you will loose ALL of your data.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows

[Technique]

I checked everything twice this morning, I even reinstalled the AJA card and its 3.3 update…
Then I created a whole new project with the following settings:

[Gary Adcock]

[Technique] “but it won’t display on the external monitor, is that normal? “

No it is not.
your settings for the project are NOT set Correctly.

Help me here.
I assume you are in the EU so make sure that you are using the Kona 1080psf 24 8bit uncompressed setting if that is what you captured.

open your existing project.

1) change the easy set up to Kona 1080psf 24 8bit uncompressed
2) Create a New Project and Sequence Name and Save the project.
3) copy your original existing sequence into the NEW Sequence you just created.
4) CMD – F12 toggles your video out settings on and off.

if you captured what you said you did it should play our properly from the Kona now.

your problem is most likely drive related- dropped frames are 99.99% of the time relating to storage.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows