What kind of video cables?

[Bob Zelin]

you need simple RCA to BNC cables. It’s not RGB it Y Pb Pr.
Y is the green color, Red is Pr, and blue is Pb. Plug the DVD Y Pb Pr (RCA cable end) into the AJA Kona LHe Y Pb Pr inputs. Most DVD recorders are cheap (like yours), and don’t have component inputs – they just have composite inputs. You take the Y output of your Kona LHe, use the Kona Control Panel to change the Y output to Composite video, and send the Y out of the Kona (BNC end) into the composite video input (yellow) of the DVD recorder.

If you don’t know what I am talking about (the Kona Control Panel), you need to go to the AJA kona forum, or read the manual (pdf form on the AJA website or the CD that came wtih your Kona)on how to use the AJA Kona Control Panel. Using the Control Panel is CRITICAL for using any capture card from AJA, Blackmagic, Matrox, or MOTU.

Bob Zelin

[Katie Van]

So if I change the output in the Kona’s control panel these same cables will work for a composite signal? I’m looking at these cables on AVCables.net called

SONICWAVE “RCA” TO BNC COMPONENT VIDEO CABLE
https://www.av-cable.net/ComponentVideo/Component-video-cable-rca-bnc.html?gclid=CI370P6PuZMCFSEbagodfkEDDA

I’m confused because they are called component video cables. Are these wrong or can they run both types of signals? I obviously don’t know much about this.

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Why don’t you capture the DVD’s directly from the Mac’s DVD player using DVD ripper software?

It eliminates the digital-to-analogue (and back) conversions.

MPEG SlipStream is very popular. Found at the following link>

https://www.squared5.com/

There are others.

[Katie Van]

Yeah I have been using MPEG actually and like it. My question is mostly for the sake of outputting DVDs. When you use MPEG is it the same quality as if you captured?

[Dylan Reeve]

The cables are just hook-ups really. A Composite signal requires only one connection for the signal, a Y/C or S-Video requires either 2 connections (with BNC/RCA connectors) or only one (with S-Video connectors) and a Component signal requires three connections.

BNC and RCA connectors are just two different connectors for exactly the same signals, they are interchangeable and adaptable.

In the case of BNC (from Kona) to RCA (Composite DVD input) you only need a single RCA-BNC cable to carry the video signal.

With a slightly more specialised cable (and possibly a couple of adapter connectors) you can also take the signal from two of the BNCs on the Kona (when the output mode is set correctly) into the S-Video input on the DVD recorder, if it has one. There should be details about that option on the AJA site I believe.

[Walter Biscardi]

Bob already told you what kind of cables you need to record to your DVD recorder.

For using DVD material in an FCP project, just use MPEG-Stremclip to rip the material off the disc.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.

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[Steven Gonzales]

In a pinch, you could take a rca to rca connector cable (most everyone has them around) and add a rca to BNC adapter such as this one at radio shack, which most towns have:

https://www.radioshack.com/sm-buy-the-radioshack-gold-series-rca-to-bnc-adapter-on–pi-2102688.html

[Katie Van]

Thank you everyone, I really appreciate the help.

[Eva Ikari]

I’m actually having this same problem. I need clips from various DVDs so I don’t want to just rip the entire DVDs.

I connected my Y BNC from my Kona, with an RCA adapter, to my Composite Video out on my commercial DVD player and in the Control Panel I changed the input to Composite, but it says ‘No Video’. Am I missing a step?

Thanks!

[Bob Zelin]

never assume that things “just work”. Take a video cable (I dont’ care if you dont’ have one – get one !) and come directly out of your DVD Player composite video output, and go into any TV video monitor video input – do you see a picture ?

Close FCP. Open AJA Control Panel. INPUT tab to ANALOG, and COMPOSITE. FORMAT tab – primary 525, secondary 525 (and if you are in europe 625, and 625) Forget 720 and 1080 for now. ANALOG tab – select composite. CONTROL TAB – choose INPUT PASSTHROUGH.

Now take that cable from your DVD composite output, and stick this into the Kona Y input, and (just like you have done) – make sure that your input select is on ANALOG and COMPOSITE. Make sure that your FORMAT TAB says 525 (if your are in the US), and not 720 or 1080. Put the CONTROL tab into INPUT PASSTHRU. Take a cable and come out of the
Kona Out Y, and stick it into the TV monitor. Do you see a picture ?

If you do not, go back to the CONTROL tab, and instead of INPUT PASSTHOUGH, select TEST PATTERN (like color bars) – do you see color bars ?

bob zelin