[Bob Zelin]

Weather you use AVID, AJA, or Blackmagic, AJA makes the converters. You take the output of your Sony HDV VTR, send the analog HD component video into the AJA analog HD component to HDSDI converter (now you have an HD SDI signal), you take the analog audio and use the AJA analog to AES/EBU converter, and you stick both of these digital signals into your Kona 2 (or Blackmagic box, or AVID Adrenaline HD). You use the firewire port for VTR control only. For about $2200, you get all the converters.

Bob Zelin

[Bob Zelin]

the chapest answer is to get any standard analog component monitor, as the Kona 2 will downconvert the HD to an analog SD component signal for viewing.
I work for many religious groups, and all though they are “non profit”, they all have money, and all want the best displays. There are many excellent hi end choices, including Plasmas from Panasonic, LCD’s from Samsung, the “standard” Sony SDM-P234b (23″) for HDSDI using the AJA HDP, the old trusty and discontinued Sony PVM-20L5/1, but for cheap – any analog component monitor you can find will work.

Bob Zelin

[Bob Zelin]

This raging debate is everywhere, and no one wants to “color correct” on LCD or Plasma scrrens. This will be reinforced by the hi end color correction facilities that will buy $25,000 – $35,000 Sony HD CRTs (the few that are still produced).

But this means NOTHING – does anyone mix on Westlake, Quested, or other hi end recording monitors – of course not. Mixing (for almost the entire industry) is done on near field monitor (Mackie, Genelec, KRK, Behringer,
Roland, Event, JBL, etc, etc). and even these are better than the typical home stereo speaker. Does it sound as good as on Westlakes, Questeds or the big monster Genelecs – of course not – BUT WHO CARES – no one will ever hear it that way.

Same thing applies with TV monitoring. It’s not my fault that Sony and Panasonic have decided to stop making CRT monitors (with the rare exception
of the very expensive Sony HD CRT’s) and LET ME ASSURE YOU that there will be NO AD AGENCY, NO CORPORATE BOARD ROOM, NO RECORD COMPANY, NO CONSUMER,
and NO TV STATION CORPORATE CONFERENCE ROOM that will EVER have a glass CRT
in their rooms. The only place you will EVER see new hi end HD monitors will be in network QC stations (maybe – probably not) and hi end color correction suites (because they will convince you how much more accurate it is).

IT’S OVER. Get used to it. And the people who push the $35,000 Sony HD
CRT will be the SAME people who will soon convince you that Sony HD Cam and
Panasonic DVCProHD suck, and that the ONLY way to work is dual link 4:4:4.
Good luck to them, and God Bless them if they can get those clients.

Bob Zelin

[Bob Zelin]

this is such an amusing question. The original post gives us the impression that this gentlemen bought the “same computer used for the AVID DS”, as if the computer has anything to do with the video image processing. AVID is currently using the NVidia 1100 card, and was previously using the 980 card, but with ANY CARD, it’s not going to give you the image quality as if you had a $90,000 DS or Nitris, that does not process DV25 via firewire . Buying a Chevy Monte Carlo does not give you a NASCAR race car.

Bob Zelin

[Bob Zelin]

You are using a PC ? Correct – then you can certainly run Adobe Premier Pro
with your Decklink while also being able to run AVID Xpress – BUT the AVID program will NOT run thru the Decklink card, or anyone elses product, other than the AVID Mojo. There is no conflict with an NVidia card and the Decklink.

Bob Zelin

[Bob Zelin]

So you are specifically asking, can you use AVID software – like AVID Xpress DV, with products from companies like AJA, Blackmagic, ProMax, Matrox, etc. instead of using the AVID Mojo or AVID Adrenline –

this is your answer – NO.

Bob Zelin

[Bob Zelin]

Hello
this is the straight answer.
1) If you have the Kona 2, it has an RGB output (Y Pb Pr). You can use this to feed the DISCONTINUED Sony 20L5/1 or Sony 14L5/1, right into the analog
component input, and it will scan up to HD res, but this monitor series only has 800 Lines of resolution. It still looks good.

2) AJA recommends for FULL resolution, to get the Apple 23″ Cinema display or the PREFERED Sony SDM-P234/b monitor ($1999) and get the AJA HDP HDSDI to
DVI adaptor. This combo will display the FULL 1920 x 1200 resolution. Let me be more specific. This monitor will show the FULL HD RESOLUTION, but the BRAND NEW replacement for the PVM20L5/1 – the Luma LCD series from Sony – will only display a max of 1280×1024, and will “scale” the image for HD, so it will not show you the full resolution.

3) At NAB, EVERYONE – AJA, Blackmagic, Apple, AVID – had 50″ Panasonic Plasma displays that showed the HD image – this monitor has a max resolution of 1366×768 – great for 720p, but still not the true HD resoltuion for 1080i.

SO – to answer your question, right now, to see the FULL HD resolution, and spend less than a “discontinued” PVM-20L5/1 – get the Sony SDM-P234b and an AJA HDP adaptor, and you are in business. THERE IS NO CHEAPER SOLUTION

4) John Apt has just ordered the new DELL 23″ monitor that claims to show this resolution. It is only $1200 (and still requires the AJA HDP), but as of NAB2005, AJA has not received this monitor yet.

5) You are dreaming if you think that “color correction” must be done on a tube monitor, as there WILL BE NO CLIENT THAT WILL EVER SEE HD ON A TUBE CRT MONITOR. Every client you will ever have from this day on, will only have a Plasma or LCD to see your image – better color correct on what they will own.

DOES THIS ANSWER YOUR QUESTION ?

bob Zelin

[Bob Zelin]

looks like standard feedback. Your VTR is in E-E, while your co workers systems are in PB/EE . This should not affect anything. If it drives you crazy, take the VTR out of SDI input and switch it to composite or YRB until you are ready to recordback to your DVW-500, or switch to PB/EE
Bob Zelin

[Bob Zelin]

no, the AJA I/O is not a NTSC/PAL standards converter. You can look at the inexpensive Kramer Electtronics products for this function.

Bob Zelin

[Bob Zelin]

I am amazed at what people consider dull. If I was able to get MAJOR improvements, that cost me ZERO DOLLARS, or was just an inexpensive FCP5 upgrade cost to be able to do multicam, and it would cost me almost nothing,
I would be pretty excited. What would excite you – real time HD multiple streams? The EXISTING Kona 2 does dual link HD SDI, and now it can upconvert the SD material.

AJA products are working RIGHT NOW. The new Blackmagic Multibridge STUDIO
is fantastic, and I loved it but 1) it isn’t available yet (they are waiting on the PCI-X development for the MAC card – and the input chip is still not working), and 2) if you already had a HD Link and a Horita black generator, it’s the same thing. The new Multibridges just have everything built right in – including the black gen and the HD SDI to DVI converters. So this is not revolutionary (but it is fantastic for a new purchase).

This is no different than AVID Meridian users that saw Adrenaline for the first time. Adrenaline was not amazing – what was amazing was that you could get a $90,000 AVID for $25,000 and did not have to deal with all the board problems anymore. This was BIG two years ago. Remember, AVID Meridian owners can do the same thing that AVID Adrenaline, or AJA I/O
or Blackmagic Decklink users can do now. But now, EVERYONE can afford to do so.

SO – if you already owned an AVID Meridian, with huge amounts of old SCSI storage, I guess you could say “yea, nothing has changed”. Well, to the “rest of us” that want a $10,000 solution, EVEYRYTHING has changed.

Any company like AJA that comes out with BIG NEW FEATURES that cost their
customers ZERO, is pretty amazing to me.

Bob Zelin