Christopher Tay
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Paul, are you doing upconvert or downconvert ? You started your post saying you want to upconvert your Digibeta to HD but then later say that most of your materials are in HD and you want to do a pan & scan for PAL SD mastering, which, to me, is downconversion.
Anyway, if you want something that can do both up and downconversion, go with the Kona2. Also, it can function as a standalone up/down converter via its control panel, meaning you can feed a HD signal into it and it will downconvert immediately and vice versa. No need to digitize and go through FCP.
-chrispy
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Yes it has an ADC and a DVI connector.
-chrispy
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Thanks Jerry…just needed to be sure before I tell my customer.
Hope you’re doing fine…
-chrispy
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Use the Kona System Utilites to do a benchmark on your RAID set and see what numbers you get. 10bit SD requires about 26-28MB/sec per stream so if all 3 systems are going to playback, you will probably hit the ceiling and that’s probably why you are encountering the problem. I would strongly suggest that you stripe them across both channels.
By the way, why do you have one RAID set is RAID3 and the other in RAID5 ?
-chrispy
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Hi ThomasO,
When you say the feature (Autosync) is not useful for video editors, what exactly do you mean ?
Also, how is your XRAID set up ? You mentioned in RAID3 and RAID5 but are the two channels independent or did you stripe them across ?
-chrispy
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Is AutoSync on the SANmp Admin for the shared volumes enabled ?
If it is, try disabling it. We’ve seen dropped frames when the AutoSync is enabled.
-chrispy
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Hi Ramona,
What about film originated materials telecined via dual link 4:4:4 RGB to a SR deck ? Would that be considered an uncompressed transfer as well ?
-chrispy
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Where is the crackling coming out from ? Are you using the K-BOX ? If you are, check the Genlock setting in the Kona Control Panel…if it’s set to Video Input and there’s no video input source, you will hear crackling coming out of the analog output of the K-BOX. Just set it to Freerun and it’ll go away.
Did you update the firmware on the Kona 2 card when you updated the driver ?
-chrispy
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If you want to do 2K grading with 10bit log materials now, check out FinalTouch2K at http://www.siliconcolor.com
-chrispy
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If moving to the Intel architecture finally allows the Mac to support all the wonderful high end graphics card out there, I’m all for it. And if it means giving us PCI-Express bus and dual or multicore HT type of performance, hey, why not ? And add OSX to it…I think for people like us in the creative industry, it means everything. Like Marco said, most of us wouldn’t even be bothered with what’s inside the box as long as it is more horsepower. With OSX, most average users probably won’t even realise that it’s “Intel Inside”.
-chrispy