loast three Digital Cinema Desktop Preview settings

[Jeremy Garchow]

If you have a Kona, why use digital desktop? What version of the drivers do you use? Have you turned off external video?

[David Ransley]

I use the Kona LHe card for color correcting to my SD Broadcast Sony monitor or when working in SD. When I’m offline editing in HD, I use a 24″ Dell and a 32″ LCD HD Panasonic. The Panasonic was used as my Digital Cinema Desktop Preview-Full-Screen (via DVI to HDMI).

I have tried reinstalled Final Cut Studio (back to ver. 6), deleted Kona driver ver. 7.0 reverted to ver. 6.5 and still no luck. Went in to the Apple system preferences and made sure the Displays were properly set up. Again no luck.

It frustrates me and my producer to have lost this ability. So any insight would be appreciated.

System, MacPro (intel 2×2.66 Dual-Core), 8GB ram, ATI Radeon X1900 XT

[Jeremy Garchow]

[David Ransley] “It frustrates me and my producer to have lost this ability. So any insight would be appreciated. “

Why don’t you hook your Kona card up to the LCD? You can send it analog HD through your sd monitor (even though your SD monitor won’t display anything but noise, so just turn it off). Sounds crazy, but try it.

Jeremy

[David Ransley]

I guess that is what I’ll have to do, but it will be a nuance re-wiring my component cables and/or resetting the KONA settings when I color correct in SD.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[David Ransley] “I guess that is what I’ll have to do, but it will be a nuance re-wiring my component cables”

Why do you have to rewire? Simply use the component passthrough on your Sd monitor? Then choose the proper easy setup in either HD or SD in FCP.

You won’t have to move.

[David Ransley]

I’ll have to re-think my cabling. Used to do it as you suggested but changed it for some reason. Can’t off the top of my head remember why.

By the way thanks for your help.