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Kona and HDCAM??
A capture facility says they can only capture HDCAM at 8 bit with their kona 2 card because that’s all it is…8bit
Is that right? it’s not 10bit?
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4 Replies
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its funny you post that question here, because i’m looking at an advertisement for the kona2 directly next to where i’m typing — “10-bit upconvert/downconvert…etc…”
http://www.aja.com will have all your answers
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I’m looking in the Capture Presets window at the Kona 2 capture settings available right now. They’re all 8 bit…
tjs
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Your not running the most current drivers, or do not have a Kona 2 or LH/e card. The pre-Kona 2 versions of the cards did not support 10bit in1080p24 HD.
Gary Adcock
Studio37
HD and Film Consultation
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HDCam is an 8-bit format. However, it is still worth capturing at 10-bit if you can since Sony has not released the native HDCam codec for use in anything other than its own editing systems. Thus, when you capture via SDI, you will be “converting” from HDCam’s data format to whatever codec you are capturing by.
In other words, it does NOT do what what happens when you capture DVCPro via FW whereby the capture codec, hardware, decompression and metadata flags [such as 24p Advance PD info] are all working together to preserve the originally recorded data on the DV tape in the form of a QT movie. That’s what is referred to to as a “transparent” transfer.
This is no the case with HDCam as far as I know. If anyone has better details on this than how it was explained to me a few years ago, please correct me.
steve covello
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