KOna3 Newbie Questions

[Aja Sales department]

Paul,
If you bought your AJA KONA 3 from a qualified and authorized dealer, they should have really asked you what you wanted to use the device for – apologies if this did not happen. As I understand it, you want to ingest material from the HDV camera you own which only has component analog output. If this is the case, yes, you would need an analog to digital converter, such as the AJA HD10AVA as noted, to get the analog signal into the KONA 3 product. Details on this can be found in a whitepaper on the AJA website:
https://www.aja.com/pdf/AJA_whitepaper_HD10AVA.pdf

Second, if you did purchase your AJA product from an authorized reseller within the last thirty days, then they will likely be willing to exchange the KONA 3 for the new AJA KONA LHi product which has analog input as well as the upconversion capability and is priced below the MSRP of the Matrox MXO2 product.

If you have any issues with reaching your reseller or have any further technical questions, feel free to contact AJA directly via phone or email.

Hope this information is helpful.

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AJA Video Systems
+1 (530) 274-2048 Intl.
(800) 251-4224 US
sales@aja.com

[Paul Burgess]

Thank you.

I was mis-advised and have sent you an email explaining the situation.

Paul

[Kent Stipp]

there is no reason that you can not still bring your footage in Firewire.
But remember it is compressed.

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[Jeremy Garchow]

[Kent Stipp] “here is no reason that you can not still bring your footage in Firewire.
But remember it is compressed. “

But he has to mix and match a ton of different formats, it easiet to do this on the way in and not edit in HDV.

Yes, you can bring your footage in via firewire, but I wouldn’t recommend it in this case. I’d use ProRes for both the HDV and the upconverts. I would then take the XDCam HD stuff and process that through compressor. You will now have a unified ProRes timeline and avoid all the long GOP rendering and artifacts.

[Jesse Green]

I have had great success with my Sony M35 HDV deck which has hd sdi out, it upconverts all my DV and even my home DV tapes to full HD no problem through a Kona 3 card. still looks like upconverted stuff but atleast I have my time code through firewire and no rendering using the 1080i Pro Res HQ settings.

Jesse

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