[Airplanesteve]

Updating my own post. I’ve figured out that in the input selector of the capture presets I need to be using the AJA preset that ends with … varicam – in order for the card to see the duplicate frames and load the footage. Problem is that when I log the footage I can see the tape no problem. But when I execute the capture it aborts and doesn’t see any video input. Any advice on this? I have lots of footage and I don’t want to have to use the FRC inside FCP… too much of a pain. THanks in advance for your help.

steve at airthis

[Airplanesteve]

Thanks for that. I didn’t mean I wanted to dumb down to HDV, I thought I would capture them both at the DVCPRO HD codec on the Kona card. But I was wondering if I would be better off having the AJ1200 output 1080i rather than 720p and capture them both at 1080i 29.97 DVCPROHD codec that is on the kona card? Any thoughts?

[Airplanesteve]

Wow, thanks for all the help. I went to sleep and woke up with all this to read. I will do some testing and get back to you. The issue between SDI capture and Firewire is interesting. I was hoping to use the Kona card because I thought it would be a better match between formats if I used the HD Component outs of my HDV deck into the Kona card and have the SDI feed out of AJ1200…. then the card takes both formats and converts them for FCP. One more question if I might, is there any benefit to editing in 1080i? v 720p. Any thoughts would be most helpful! Cheers.

steve at airthis