[Bob Zelin]

you sound like a guy that should own an AJA IO or IO LA instead of an LHe – remember -the IO works great with the new express buss computers.

Bob Zelin

[Bob Zelin]

Mr. GlobeRider writes –

The reason I am trying to get it to work without running external sync into it is that I was getting strange playback issues on occasion from the deck (during playbck the deck would occasionaly “hiccup” and anything encoded or dubbed would have a glitch in it) and the Panasonic rep suggested that I DISCONNECT EXTERNAL SYNC into the deck for awhile to see if that helped.

REPLY – the Panasonic rep suggested this because if the Black generator (think ESE) was a piece of crap, it would cause all kinds of havoc in your system. The ESE black generator is notorious from preventing AVID Adrenaline systems from working. I too have run AJA, Blackmagic and AVID systems without external reference “in a pinch”, but when problems erupt, you DO THE RIGHT THING, and problems go away. A LONG TIME AGO in the linear days, I used to use a Sigma 365 sync generator that had SC-H problems that caused H-Shift problems. The edit controller company insisted that I use a sync generator with the proper SC-H (I got a meter to measure it), and I said “IT WORKED FINE FOR 6 MONTHS – how could it be the sync gen”. Sure enough, I got a better sync gen with locked SC-H, and the H-Shift problem went away.

If you continue to have “glitch” problems with your Panasonic VTR with your Black Generator hooked up to it, there STILL MAY BE a problem with your Panasonic VTR. Just because a Panasonic service person looked at your VTR for 10 minutes, and said “there is nothing wrong with this VTR” – this means NOTHING -and this applies to all VTR’s, all disk drives, etc. It is DIFFICULT to find intermittent problems, and most service personel (including me) are very lazy about sitting with a piece of equipment that “appears” to work fine, when it will produce the problem in 30 minutes.

I feel your pain.

Bob Zelin

[Bob Zelin]

you are in some sort of feedback loop, as you have proved by disconecting the
Kona 2 output from the input of your HD VTR.

This is my professional suggestion. Go down to your car. Get the crowbar out of your trunk. Stick the crowbar into your wallet. Pry out about $250 and BUY A G#$ DAMN BLACK GENERATOR, and stick this into your Kona 2 Reference Input, and your HD VTR Ref Video Input, throw the Kona Control Panel into Ext Reference, and YOUR PROBLEMS WILL GO AWAY.

By the way, that will be $50 bucks for the advice.

Bob Zelin

[Bob Zelin]

you ABSOLUTELY CANNOT use the KL Box with the Kona SD. Be a bigshot and buy yourself a Kona LH or I/O for Christmas.

Bob Zelin

[Bob Zelin]

I believe that huge selects 2k for the block size.

bob Zelin

[Bob Zelin]

so matt, since you said previously that you UNINSTALLED the AJA IO driver and reinstalled, but this time you also UNINSTALLED FCP as well, do you feel that your problem was resolved from uninstalling FCP , and reinistalling it ?

bob Zelin

[Bob Zelin]

trash your preferences. Certainly think about upgrading to the latest MAC OS and FCP 5, along with the latest AJA drivers. Most systems have no problems.
Certainly not your problem.

Bob Zelin

[Bob Zelin]

Matt – it’s time to call AJA support.

Bob

[Bob Zelin]

Audio/Video settings, Capture presets, go to your selection in the list, double click on it, and in the lower left, you will see the abiltity to switch your audio input from Pro IO analog to AES.

Bob Zelin

[Bob Zelin]

Kev –
#1 – the Apple shop guys are idiots
#2 – there are very intelectual replys to your post on this thread, but lets face reality.

This stuff just came out. ATTO AINT READY. FIRMTEK AINT READY. SONNET AINT READY. You can TRY the Highpoint SATA card for PCIe (I wouldn’t), you can buy the current Apple XServe RAID with the PCIe card from Apple (which almost no one on this list would – and you probably can’t afford it), or you can stick a plain old FW800 drive in the FW800 port of the new MAC, and work on some stuff for now, until the new products come out. Fibre is great, SATA is very good and cheap – but THIS STUFF IS ALL NEW, and if you want SOLID ANSWERS, you ain’t gonna get it until this new stuff is released (or you blow your wad on the XServe RAID with the PCIe FC card from Apple) – like I said – if you do this, you are nuts.

bob Zelin