KONA 3 vs. KONA LHi

[Chris Borjis]

[gary adcock] “nope…
RED Rocket is not shipping yet,”

for now.

I’m talking WHEN it ships.

[Chris Borjis]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Even if you do master beyond 2K, where are you going to play it?”

the client with their Red Ray of course. 🙂 (when IT ships)

[Pat Mcgowan]

I hear you Gary. All good.

[Keith Pratt]

To bring it back on topic, the LHi will output RGB, right? Specs on their site list input/output of SMPTE424M and RGB over HDMI.

It’s the latter I’m mainly concerned with. I’m doing mostly file-based stuff, grading on an HP LP2480zx, and need the output over HDMI to be RGB. With this card, Color and DPX files, am I going to get that?

[Ramona Howard]

Keith,

If you don’t want to muss around go with the K3 and an AJA SDI to HDMI converter.This way you get all the features you need, when you need them. Yes it is more $, welcome to the world of professional workflows.

The LHI is a cool board but what is really needed is the K3 with HDMI. So work around it and add two of their great products together 🙂

I would make a call AJA and confirm the converter supports the higher HDMI spec so that you can shove 8, 10, 12, 16bit down the connection to match what the K3 can give you……

DO NOT TRUST ANYONES MARKETING INFORMATION (many market 10bit plus support. but they use a lower HDMI spec. That is because they support 10plus in only on the SDI side, so they are only telling half the truth, making it all ok….NOT)

Cheers,
Ramona

Play hard today, it may be raining tomorrow!

[Nigel Thompson]

LOL:

i agree. That my only problem with RED Rocket, what exactly are you gonna monitor it on.

unless u have one of those sony 4k projectors or a Barco thingy u wont see 4k, there are no 4k monitors, and wont be for a while. now if it’s an accelerator so you can zip through color easier then oh hell yes.

i actually taut they would partner with Aja on this. but what ever

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[Ramona Howard]

If it is being used in a product like the RaveDi that offers real-time scaling 🙂 then you don’t have monitoring worries.

Cheers,
Ramona

Play hard today, it may be raining tomorrow!

[Jerry Hofmann]

I worked in AJA’s booth and my station at NAB was showing the Lhi card. If all you need is HD. This card ROCKS. Next gen inside too… It’s AJA’s latest capture card with the latest chipset from the company. It’s also a bargain for what you get. a Hot dang winner IMHO.

Kona 3 has very long legs however. It’s the world’s most powerful I/O card for FCP I still believe. Certainly the standard. It is still the way to go for RED. Also for the few who need dual link, it has that too.

Maybe do one station with a 3, and buy Lhi’s for the others? Won’t need all in 2k?

You can down res the RED to HD on the way in as well.

Jerry

[Joe Murray]

[Jerry Hofmann] “Maybe do one station with a 3, and buy Lhi’s for the others? Won’t need all in 2k?”

Thought about when I ordered a K3 last week, but with shared storage I really like the flexibility of opening up any project in any room. With Red proxies this is possible (not with 4K obviously…) so I passed on the LHi. Does look like a pretty sweet deal for its target market though.

Joe Murray
Edit at Joe’s
Charlotte, NC

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Ramona Howard] “I would make a call AJA and confirm the converter supports the higher HDMI spec so that you can shove 8, 10, 12, 16bit down the connection to match what the K3 can give you…… “

All new AJA converters/PCI boards/KiPros have HDMI 1.3a.

That’s the Hi5 3G/Kona LHi/KiPro