How do you set real-time 2:3 pulldown insertion on Kona output in Symphony?

[Marco Solorio]

The same location you’re describing to change the hardware settings tool (under the “Tools” menu) is the same for me changing the AJA Kona settings. Unfortunately, I cannot change the main output to either P or PsF (the second output might, but I wont know until Monday).

In the interim, I’ve found some interesting info. There’s a chance my AJA Hi5 SDI to HDMI converter might actually be the problem in the link. I was under the impression that it supported both 24P and 24PsF. It apparently does not (only 24P and 23.976P, but not 23.976PsF). However, the competing Blackmagic SDI to HDMI converter does support 23.976PsF (but not 24P and 23.976P). Weird. At any rate, I’ve ordered the BMD converter and will be in my hands on Tuesday. For $295, I’m willing to take the risk to see if this will solve the 24p problem for the client display.

I’d actually prefer this method anyway since I’d stay native 24p monitoring and wouldn’t have to add RT pulldown insertion to the output. Crossing my fingers. Apparently the BMD converter is working on many “24p capable” client displays in this exact type of scenario with MC/Symphony, so I’m hopeful.

Oh the joy.

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[Marco Solorio]

Alright, I went to the root of the problem, got rid of the real-time 2:3 pulldown requirement and figured out why my client LED display wouldn’t understand native 24p video. Turned out that the AJA Hi5 was the culprit because for some reason, AJA did not implement 23.976pfs into its design. So weird. so as mentioned in my last post, I bought the BMD converter and my intuition was right. My 55″ LED client display now understands native 24p because the BMD converter can use all three 24p variants. All my monitors now function under all formats I throw at them. “Welcome to 2004.”

I decided to make a quick blog post about it:

https://www.onerivermedia.com/blog/?p=581

Cheers!

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