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Kona LH problems, any advice?
Hello all,
I’m coming component out of my Sony DSR 45 deck into the Kona LH via KL box. I have a Mac G5, Dual 2.7, 4 gig RAM, and 1 Terabyt using Apple X-Serve. Here’s what’s going on.
I have a Shuttle Pro 2 to mark in and out points and to control the deck. No problem, controls the deck, marks in and out, you name it. I set five clips to be captured and left for a few minutes. When I came back, the deck was progressing frame by frame with a message saying looking for a break in the timecode. This went on forever. After I escaped out, I tried to capture now, same problem. I got too thinking and prior to starting my batch capture, I clicked on capture to begin the process, however my deck was in local mode. It gave me an error. I didn’t log out or anything so I attributed the problem to this, my not restarting the capture process. Long story short, I did this and it worked fine after that.
Well, here we are today and the same problem starts again. Only this time I didn’t mess up before starting. I’ve tried everything and can’t get it to batch capture. I could not do a capture now either, unti I unhooked the Shuttle Pro 2, so now I can capture now but still can’t batch capture using the mouse and FCP controls. I thought perhaps it had something to do with the Shuttle Pro. There are no breaks in the timecode either.
Hopefully, I’ve made sense. Anyone out there have similar problems or any advice?
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I’m also using FCP 5 and the settings for the input are AJA Kona NTSC 10 bit uncompressed. Thanks.
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Sounds like it’s FCP5 being finicky. You need to go into your user preferences and change the timecode break option from “make new clip” to “warn after capture”
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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2
ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 4105 Fibre -
Thanks Jeremy. Made the change and so far so good. Man, there’s a zillion things that can affect so many things. Thanks again.
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Changing the setting you recommended worked for getting the footage onto the hard drive. However, when I play it back from the drive, it’s jittery in several places. It plays smooth as silk for about 15 seconds, the it almost looks like 24 frames instead of thirty. It’s wierd because once it started recording yesterday, after the errors and such, all was fine. Playback looked good, I was happy!
I tried hooking up and capturing using the octopus cables in lieu of the breakout box, same problems. I then hooked up the firewire cable and and everything worked fine via firewire. I’m running all current versions, updated a couple of weeks ago. Any other suggestions? Thanks.
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Where did the footage originate from and what camera was it shot on?
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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2
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I shot the footage using a Sony DSR 300 camera.
As I said in an earlier post, I did get an error message the first day because I had the deck set to local mode, not remote, and I thought that may have been the culprit. Once I restarted everything, it worked fine, not so yesterday. I would guess that if it were a timecode issue, the DV input would cause similar problems with timecode, wouldn’t you think?
Thanks for your responses.
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The Sony shoots in non-drop frame mode. Could this be a problem with the time code? Do you know if there’s a setting to change to non-drop frame when importing using Kona LH? Just a thought.
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is the footage coming in drop frame? Hit Apple-8, and check your capture settings. You should be able to choose Sony 29.97 non drop frame. I don’t think this is it. What’s weird, is that when you are capturing DV, dv reverts to drop frame as most comsumer dv camcorders shoot drop frame.
I don’t think this has much to do with it. I am not too familiar with your deck, but you are using RS-422 for deck control, correct?
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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2
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Correct, using RS-422. The deck is a DSR-45. Coming out via component and audio out is XLR. The DSR 300 is a 3 1/2 chip camera. Footage is non-drop frame and that is what’s chosen.
Perhaps a call to AjA is in order. Thanks for all your help.
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Maybe there’s a setting in the deck rs-422 vs firewire. Also, i would uninstall and then reinstall the latest Kona LH drivers.
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