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Where’s the Ref? (Reference Video out – Kona LH)
I just set-up my KONA LH system without incident. It’s working great, only one question,
when I’m ready to master to Beta-SP, where do I pull a reference signal from to feed my
deck? The LH only provides a Ref In connector.Another oddity, at least for me-being new to the world of uncompressed, I assembled a Final Cut Pro sequence
in 8 Bit Uncompressed and was able to play it back through my firewire deck without any rendering.
I simply changed my a/v device to firewire and it worked. I expected I would’ve had to transcode the
sequence to the 720×480 DV aspect ratio and codec. Can anybody explain this?Thanks!
Jeff
G5: Dual 2 Ghz, 2G Ram, Kona LH -
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The beta deck should be receiving the same ref as your KONA is. If you are running the beta deck in INPUT ref then it will use the component output to reference too.
THis means that whenyou go into record it will give you the sync line while recording but after you disengage the deck from record mode the tape will playback correctly having received it’s sync fromt the video.
The best way to go is get a BB generator and send outputs from that to the KONA and the Beta deck and anything else in your studio that requires sync.
David
I can’t believe it’s not butter!
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the answer to your first question is that you have to purchase a third party color black generator, from a company like Horita (like the $289 BSG-50). NO NLE manfuacturere – AJA, Blackmagic, Pinnacle, Aurora, AVID, Leitch, etc.
give you a “reference” out, except for the Blackmagic Multibridge Studio (which is not released yet). So guess what, you are going to be spending some money, or living with the “roll bar” vertical blanking line.Bob Zelin
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