-
Kona3
are Blackmagic going to support the AJA Kona3 card with Resolve or do we have to buy a BM Decklink?
There are a lot of Kona3 cards out there and its seems crazy to have to purchase another card when the Kona3 is fantastic.Rory Hinds
mine
http://www.minefilms.com -
6 Replies
-
You know, “they” say so, (eventually) but when I framed the observation that “people don’t know what to do”, I got the response: “waddya mean?! the system specifications have been known for months!”
And its Blackmagic. Only. There have been some other mutterings that aren’t hopeful.
Final Touch was a little bit the same. You can only go by what is published; speculating and hoping are pointless.jPo
You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?
-
I was told by Grant at NAB that they plan to support the AJA cards. No timetable but he said the plan was to open the product up so it could drop into existing facilities with a minimum of change. We run all Kona 3s here so I’m hoping….
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media“Foul Water, Fiery Serpent” featuring Sigourney Weaver coming soon.
-
Be sure to talk to AJA about this. It’s one thing for Blackmagic to open the software to other people’s hardware. Those other companies have to write drivers.
It’s never going to happen until they believe that supporting DaVinci will make them more money than some of the other things they’re already working on.
You have to also consider that, for existing customers, it’s actually a tougher sell. I’m speaking as a former developer, and not being at all cynical, but you have to persuade them that there’s NEW money, and new sales to be had, because that’s the only way that they can recover their development costs.
In any case, it’s never going to happen unless you persuade them that it should.
tw
Tim Wilson
Associate Publisher, Editor-in-Chief
Creative COW MagazineMy Blog: “Is this thing on? Oh it’s on!”
Don’t forget to rate your favorite posts!
-
Surely you agree it’s also about customer retention – DaVinci has become a hot topic with alot of pre-orders from many levels of industry at boutique, large post and broadcast size companies. Alot of places, like at Walter’s, already use K3 cards and have the correct spec MPro – so if AJA don’t write drives alot of these places will invest in BMD cards for a relatively much lower cost and then, if they have no issues and no quality drop (Which I doubt they would) it may mean they start saving on IO in other areas too…
Jamie Allan
Post Production Consultant
DaVinci Specialist (Linux/Mac)
Jamie@Jigsaw24.comJigsaw Systems Ltd. – IT & Broadcast specialists for the UK
https://www.jigsaw24.com
https://www.jigsawbroadcast.com -
[Jamie Allan] “so if AJA don’t write drives alot of these places will invest in BMD cards for a relatively much lower cost and then, if they have no issues and no quality drop (Which I doubt they would) it may mean they start saving on IO in other areas too…”
Well, I can’t speak for any other production houses, but in my case, we’re only going to have one copy of Resolve in a color enhancement suite. So if there no support for Resolve from AJA, I’ll only need one BMD card.
The 8 edit suites will continue to run the AJA Kona 3 and LHi cards.
It’s really not a big deal one way or the other for me.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media“Foul Water, Fiery Serpent” featuring Sigourney Weaver coming soon.
-
My understanding is that we are still planing to keep the system open so that other board manufacturers can hook into our software. Most likely we will do this by allowing vendors to download an SDK.
It would then be up to them to do the development to hook into the software, but as others have said, it’s going to a matter of convincing the manufacturers that there is a good thing to do or that there is new money in it for them.
Personally i’d love to see this. As many have said some of the smaller shops will probably want to use their existing hardware with this software and how cool would that be to simply have to add a GPU and install the software. For others they will build a dedicated system for it anyways and it won’t be as big of a deal. Bringing the tech to more people is the intention, so we want to make it as easy as possible.
Sincerely,
Joshua
Director of Support
Blackmagic Design Inc.
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up