IO-LA or HD10AVA?

[Matt Larson]

They both would work, but in different ways. If you are going to have a Kona, I would go with the HD10AVA. That way, you can feed the Kona your analog signal (converted to SDI) and you can use the Kona’s built in upconvert to make it HD while capturing (very handy).

The Io-LA will add complexity to your system that you probably don’t need.

Will you need to lay off to beta though? If so, I think you’ll need another converter to go the opposite way (can’t remember if it does both or not)

[Jeremy Garchow]

I’d go AVA too. What else do you have to tie in to your system? SDI is much easier to run cable for then analog a/v. Also, as far as analog out, you K3 can handle that.

Jeremy

[Lee Mceachern]

Thanks Matt & Jeremy,

I appreciate you sharing the value of your experience. I looks like you are right: The AVA can work as an interface between my Betacam deck and the Kona 3 card, and the Kona 3 can deliver an SD component signal back to the deck. So that would cover me both ways.

Jeremy, you asked what else I have to tie into my system. Actually, I have just taken delivery of the Octocore and I

[Jeremy Garchow]

I was more curious about any other decks/monitors/video equipment that you need to route a video and audio signal for.

Jeremy

[Lee Mceachern]

Oh. Well, I have a DVCAM deck as well as the beta deck. I will use the two displays that I now have…an Apple Cinema Display and a standard (DVI?) monitor…plus a video monitor. I think I’m covered with the Kona 3 card, the AVA, and the ATI Radeon X1900XT.

Look OK?

[Jeremy Garchow]

Wht kind of outputs do you have on your dvcam deck? Also, you have to worry about balanced analog audio for your beta deck, which can probably also be done with the AVA.

Jeremy

[Lee Mceachern]

Hi Jerry,

My DVCAM deck has unbalanced audio but I rarely use those ins and outs. I just use firewire for video/audio and control.

I think you’re right that the AVA can handle analog component video and balanced audio going out of the beta deck. As for mastering back to the beta deck, I believe the Kona 3 card can deliver both analog component video and balanced audio, as well as deck control. Does that sound right to you?

[Jeremy Garchow]

No, the Kona only has digital audio outs, and unbalanced analog audio for monitoring (RCA). I was wrong about the AVA, and you actually need the ADA4 to take the digital audio and convert it to analog for your beta deck unless you want to use the RCA outputs to your beta deck.

https://www.aja.com/html/products_converters_ADA4.html

Jeremy

[Lee Mceachern]

Well, that’s very valuable information. Thank you. I guess I just misunderstood the Kona 3 marketing langage: “KONA 3

[Jeff Coleman]

I think I’d email AJA. They’re pretty good communicators.

A full IO would provide all the ins and outs you need, but I think it would be problematic to manage that complexity as mentioned above.

You’d probably want stand alone converters (Analog A&V-to-SDI and SDI-to-Analog A&V) and parked at the inputs and outputs to your analog machine(s) so that the analogness is transparent to your Kona 3. Or you could give up a few features, keep a lot of money and go for the Kona LHe.