[Alexander Higgins]

[Joseph Owens] As far as that comment about…. “as soon as AJA provides us with their SDK” goes… this is exactly what I was afraid of.

I think BlackMagic will say, “AJA won’t give us the SDK!” But AJA doesn’t give the SDK for the KONA3. You can buy their OEM cards and write your own drivers, thats all they offer.

Smooth ploy by BlackMagic to get everyone to buy their hardware. Their is a reason that I chosen AJA since my first IO, the IO HD, and my KONA3 stations, and making everyone buy BlackMagic hardware is not going to make BlackMagic hardware quality any better.

Anyway, maybe its no big deal for some, their cards are cheap and if you make your DaVinci a Turnkey, then its not that big of a deal, but I wouldn’t want to give my KONA3 in FCP Studio.

[Alexander Higgins]

Hey Peter, this is not good for anyone using AJA products.

DVS is not really in the same category as a consumer card like the KONA3, DVS is well known to give full support to their cards to vendors using them, they sell them like an OEM card. The developers take 100% control. Thats why Filmlight, Autodesk and so many others have used them at one point or another. But, once they hand over that card to those vendors, those vendors have to support the cards. A guy grading on a BASELIGHT will never in a million years call DVS to get support, he calls FILMLIGHT.

So in the case of AJA cards, they are off the shelf cards, consumer cards, if I have a problem with it, I call AJA. It has AJA drivers, AJA utilities.

So if we are getting this information directly from Peter Chamberlain, or the horses mouth, if you will, KONA3 will never be supported on DaVinci. Basically this is that limbo between Pro and Pro-Sumer that kinda screws the users over. FCP works with the AJA KONA3 because Apple lets AJA work with Apple to develop proper drivers etc.

If Peter is asking AJA to give them the SDK for an off the shelf KONA3 card, that is not going to happen. It sounds like for AJA cards to work with DaVinci, Blackmagic would have to buy the OEM KONA3 cards, then devlop the drivers themselves. AJA being direct competition to Blackmagic, I don’t see this happening.

[Alexander Higgins]

Hey Kristian Lam, is there an internal discussion on any Blackmagic Internal Support sites that I could post that question? I bet if I can ask around, someone has either tried it, or done it already.

Thanks!

[Alexander Higgins]

Hey Bob, I think their is a lot of people looking at the same things here. I myself in very interested in 10gE networking SAN or NAS systems.

Are you going to do a tutorial anytime soon using Small Tree hardware? I for one would be excited to see that.

The one thing like about Creative Cow is that it blew up with Final Cut Pro, so it is a very Mac Centric location. So any tutorials using Mac hardware makes it really easy to follow along. Mac’s being as close to TURNKEY systems as possible.

Hiring an engineer is worth its weight in gold, but its nice to see the tutorials that you and others make, so we can evaluate it in a way, before we bother any engineers.