[Barry Lank]

Finally got it to work using the kona input passthrough and going component out. Thanks a bunch!

[Barry Lank]

The only delay I ever notice with the kona is the latency delay when using an external monitor to view what is coming out of FCP.

[Barry Lank]

Ok. I finally got video going in to the beta sp player. The only way I could get it to work is if I ran a cable from the Y/G/CVBS on the aja breakout box video monitor out port to the composite in on the beta deck. Is that the right way to do it?

Also since you are reading this thread walter maybe you can help me with a reference signal problem I am having with the 1200A deck. Whenever I plug in my reference signal coming from my horita bgs-50 box the signal gets all messed up. When it’s unplugged it works totally fine. Would you happen to know why that would be? I have an aja io, kona 3 with breakoutbox, a 1200a deck, and a bunch of other sd decks (dv cam, beta sp, beta sx) What is the best way to run all of those references signals? I’m not well educated on ‘looping’ etc.

[Barry Lank]

Check out this tutorial for upconverting dv to dvcpro hd via compressor.

https://www.proapptips.com/videos/_DV_to_DVCPRO_HD.mov

Just change the settings to 1080i instead of 720p.

[Barry Lank]

No need to respond now. It seems to work properly by using ‘assemble’ and doesn’t work when using ‘Insert’.

[Barry Lank]

Same thing happened here. We just finished a huge contract where 140 tapes were shot at 720p30 and captured at 59.94. I had to do it that way as I didn’t have time to play around with capturing at 720p30. We are doing the exact same contract next year as well so I want to see if there is a better way to capture and/or shoot it.

Here are the details:

– shoot with a varicam,
– have to edit 720p material together with other 720p24 material that was shot 2 years ago, as well as stock dv footage supplied on beta, mini dv, and dvd.

Our deliverables are:
– all the final videos at 1080i60
– all footage shot delivered at 1080i60 either on tape or harddrive

What would be the best work flow for this?
This year we shot at 720p30, captured and edited at 720p59.94,mixed in 23.98 in the same timeline, upconverted the stock footage via compressor, or just streched it out in the timeline to fill the screen and added flicker filters due to time constraints, then gave the transfer company the final videos at 720p59.94 as well as our stock footage to upconvert to 1080i60.

Is that the best way to go? I am starting to think not due to the duplicate frames when you go from 30 to 59.94.

Alternatives would be to:

a) shoot and edit in 720p24
b) shoot in 720p24 or 720p30 and upconvert and edit the footage at 1080i60 through the kona… which would save us alot of money as we dont have to pay someone to transfer our tapes to 1080i, rather just give the client a harddrive full of the 1080i raw footage.

Any suggestions?

[Barry Lank]

One question… the original size when in MM is 1.4 TB with all 18 sequences.
If I uncheck the ‘delete unused media from duplicated items’ the modified size is the same 1.4 TB.
If I keep the ‘delete unused media from duplicated items’ box checked from duplicated items the modified size is only 133 G.

Why do you recommend to uncheck that box?

[Barry Lank]

thanks!
I appreciate the help!

[Barry Lank]

I just opened it up in textedit then saved it as a .txt document. It looks just like html source code.

[Barry Lank]

You hit the nail right on the head.
The bottom of a master tape box in an unorganized stock room seems to be the inevitable final resting place for these deliverables.

We decided to export xml files and convert them to a readable text format.

Thanks for the help.