feed signal back into Kona card

[Bob Zelin]

you write

whenever I am outputting material from FCP to a deck (lets just say dbeta) my boss always makes me feed an input back into Kona …..why is that? What happens if there isnt a input being fed back to the Kona while Im outputting from the Kona???

REPLY – why, nothing happens. Why don’t you try it – play the Kona back into your VTR, and disconnect all inputs to the Kona. Make sure that your Kona is either set to FREE RUN in the Kona control panel – or if you own a black generator, make sure that it goes to the Reference In of the Kona, and Ref Video In of the VTR, and that your Kona Control panel is set to EXT REF. I don’t know what Voodoo he is preaching, but you don’t need to have a input back into the Kona to do an output.

bob Zelin