Bob Zelin
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The Panasonic BT-LH is the ONLY series of LCD monitors that I am aware of that displays interlaced video properly. This is the key difference between this LCD and those from other manufacturers. The expensive Teranex ClearView will also handle interlaced video properly, but this is probably out of the price range of this guy.
Bob Zelin
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I ASSUME that you are using a Kona LHe or Kona LSe card, and not the Kona 3 card. Assuming this is correct, simply go to the EASY SETUPS, and select Kona Beta 8 bit uncompressed, say ok, and try it again. If it still does not work, quit FCP, and in your applications folder find the AJA Kona Control Panel. Open this up, click on your INPUT tab, and select ANALOG COMPONENT – play your Beta VTR – you should instantly see your Beta VTR on your TV monitor, if your TV is hooked up to the output of the Kona.
Don’t worry about FCP until you can get video to pass thru your system via the AJA kona Control Panel. Once you have this working, then go back to FCP, and USE THE EASY SETUPS !
Bob Zelin
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YES. You must monitor the Decklink output. If you continue to use the internal speakers of the MAC, I will have to kill you. (of course, if you do not mind being out of sync with your video, go right ahead and use your internal MAC speaker – besides, that 1″ speaker in the MAC sounds REALLY good). I don’t know what Decklink card you have – some only have SPDIF outputs, and some have analog outputs. At $59 US for a set of Behringer MS-16 powered speakers, if you simply refrain from that one hit of crack for the afternoon, you can afford to get these. If you only have the SPDIF output, I just saw the Edirol’s on sale for Christmas for $99, and these have the SPDIF input.
Bob Zelin
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Panasonic BT-LH1700W.
Good luck trying to find a Sony PVM series CRT – they are discontinued.
Bob Zelin
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If I answer your questions, can I have a vacation in Laguna Beach ?
you write –
MBP;
FCP 5.1.2, Beta SP (mostly), AJA IO La, 1.5 TB Sata Storage (G-Tech with Firmtek Card ; Back Up Fire Wire 800.)REPLY – excellent equipment.
I am ready to start creating the home suite with the following :
*MAC PRO QUAD 3.0 :
1 x 250GB 7200 SATA as boot drive with all applications (FCP, AE, CS..3 etc.)If I use the CAL DIGIT S2VR HD (with FASTA 4e Card )
Can I leave the other Drive bays open with no issues ??REPLY – you will pull out your Firmtek SATA card, and replace it with the Cal-Digit FASTA-4e. You can plug in your Firmtek into 2 of the ports, and the S2VR into a 3rd port on the FASTA 4e. Cool, right ?
*4 GB Ram (4 x 1GB)
REPLY – good*AJA Kona LHe (w/breakout box)
REPLY – good*GRAPHICS CARD .
Do I need an upagrade card from the provided Nvidia Gforce 7300 GT ? (i.e ATI Radeon X1900 ?)
Will include AE 7 and CS3 when they become universal.
Do also use Motion for simple effects -
It is amazing to me how many people who are involved with hi end 1080i HD production, using the most expensive VTR’s on the planet, are so concerned with saving $300 on one disk drive.
Bob Zelin
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NO – 4 drives currently are not fast enough to do uncompressed HD.
It is disappointing how things get misinterpreted. People say “SATA drives can do uncompressed HD”, and then someone tries to use ONE SATA drive, and fails, and complains that SATA does not work. Cal-Digit is an excellent company, but they do not produce magic tricks. They are the first company that can get 230mb/sec with only 5 drives, but you can’t get these speeds with only 4 drives.
With that said, I just saw a new report on http://www.barefeats.com, where they did a test with a MAC Pro, and used all 4 INTERNAL SATA DRIVES (with Seagate SATA 750 Gig 7200.10 drives) all stripped together, booting off of an external drive, and got these FOUR drives running faster than the Cal-Digit.
Now, I do not recommend running a professional system like this, booting off of an external drive, but it shows you that our business is changing very quickly, and every few months, there are dramatic changes for the better.In the mean time, you can do 8 and 10 bit uncompressed SD and DVCProHD with your Duo SATA drives, but you will need at least 5 drives, and a Cal-Digit FASTA-4e or 4x to do uncompressed HD.
Bob Zelin
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Its safe. When you put the drives on your new system, you will not see them. You must go into the Microsoft Disk Manager, and you will see it say FOREIGN DISK – you must right click on this, and IMPORT FOREIGN DISKS. This will mount the drives into your system.
If you are nervous about doing this – practice with any firewire drive. If you don’t have a spare firewire drive lying around – STEAL ONE – that’s right – break into the house next door, hit your neighbor on the head, and steal their firewire drive. Put it on your Win 2000 computer, dump some material on it, and then move it to your Win XP system, and practice this simple process, before you lose your media.
Your neighbor will recover, but you may not.
Bob Zelin
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I am confused by your posts. In your first post, you said that you CANNOT do 10 bit uncompressed HD, and in your second post, you said that you CAN do 10 bit uncompressed HD.
I can assure you that Cal Digit SATA arrays can do uncompressed 10 bit 1080i
HD-SDI. If you use TWO of these chassis, with the FASTA-4x or FASTA4e SATA host card, and stripe all TEN drives together RAID 0, you will get about 450mb/sec, which far exceeds the requirement for uncompressed HD.If you are having problems doing uncompressed HD with this solution, please post EXACTLY what MAC you have, what operating system, what slots your Blackmagic and Cal Digit host card are in, and what other cards (if any) are in your MAC (like do you have a ADS or SIIG Firewire card in one of the slots, that may be slowing down your system? ).
Bob Zelin
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Hello Mr. Freak –
you will soon learn that modern products come with .pdf manuals, and on a day like today (Sunday), instead of having fun – you must READ THESE MANUALS PAGE BY PAGE.When you do this, you will learn that the Kona LHe has analog component inputs, however you can use the Y input as the Composite Video input, if you choose the correct EASY SETPUP from the FCP menus. I urge you to READ THE MANUAL, and learn how to use the AJA Kona Control Panel, so you can practice getting audio and video (composite video) thru your AJA Kona LHe, even before you run FCP (so you can make sure that it is working). Your camera has RCA audio outputs on it, and you will (for today) need to get cables that take the RCA outputs from your camera, and get them into the XLR inputs of your Kona LHe.
When you finally get your mixer, you will find that you need ADDITIONAL cables. The level coming out of the camera’s RCA outputs is very low (-10dBu) and it will need to get boosted up (via the mixer) to a +4dBu level for the XLR inputs of the Kona LHe. You will need RCA to 1/4″ phone plug for the camera to Mixer, and 1/4″ phone plug to XLR for the Mixer out to the Kona LHe input. You will also need cables that come out of the Kona LHe to go back into the mixer (XLR to 1/4″ phone plug), and more cables to go from the mixer CR Mon Out to the Speakers XLR inputs (also 1/4″ phone plug to XLR).
You will soon learn that cables cost a lot of money – more than anyone expects them too. May I suggest that you search for assorted musical supply houses on the web, like Musicians Friend, to get your cables, as these are as cheap as you are going to find.
You will also soon ask “when do I get to stop spending all of this money?” .
This is the answer – NEVER.
bob Zelin