[Craig Sommerer]

Sorry to hear this, Bill.

I, to be honest, have never run that Mac desktop feature on my LHe so I can’t comment. However, I have and operate these versions of software and they work together well. Even the new Aja Adobe Photoshop plug in works fantastically.

Aja 6.0.0 software
OSX 10.5.5
QT 7.5.5
FCP 6.0.4
Color 1.0.2
Motion 3.0.2

Well, I’ve had keyboard transport problems in Color since March but that’s another story, not related to any Aja software, on an 14 month old 2.66 Mac Pro quad.

[Craig Sommerer]

I was getting kernal panics with the very same versions of the OS, QT and Kona LHe software as you. It would happen immediately upon startup and immediately after I installed Kona 6.0.1

Aja tech support told me it’s a known issue and to move back to 6.0.0 and I did and everything has progressed swimmingly since then.

Interestingly enough, Aja support told me immediately about the solution before I’d finished describing the situation. I’m kind of surprised that I’ve not read of any other troubles relating to this version of the Kona software nor is it on the Aja website anywhere.

Uninstall using the Kona uninstall utility and then delete any Kona leftovers in the receipts folder. Install 6.0.0, I’ll wager that’ll fix you right up.

[Craig Sommerer]

Joe,

More ammo for you in your quest for hardware scopes. Note what the poster says about the internal scopes.

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/98/870788

[Craig Sommerer]

Call them. Leave a message if you need to, they will return the call within the day. Whenever I’ve called them I get a call back within an hour if I leave a message.

Emailing them is futile, I’ve sent emails that were never answered. Then I wised up and learned to use the phone.

[Craig Sommerer]

Joe,

I’m going to completely disagree with Walter, again, on this subject. The built-in scopes on FCP and Color are woefully inadequate for the job a scope is designed to do which is measure the video signal. Again, they don’t touch what is happening downstream of the output device, whatever that is. I don’t have scopes at home (I’m not making money on products for clients on my household rig) but I would trust an old Tektronix component analog fed a downconverted signal from my Kona LHe a lot sooner than I would the software Apple scopes.

How many of your operators actually know how to properly read that instrumentation? I worked at one facility and my video area needed a sdi scope to replace a dead scope. I stole one from the flotilla of Avid rooms as those guys rarely turned their scopes on. They never knew.

I spent today staring at a pitiful Harris/Videotek VTM series rasterizer. Yesterday I was working with a nice Leader LV5700A but my favorite hd scope is a Tektronix WFM 7120. The lcd trace looks as close to a crt trace as one can get. These products are expensive but it’s the cost of doing business. Monitors hide things that scopes will reveal.

At the very least, I would think you’d want hardware on your finishing machines.

[Craig Sommerer]

The number one reason to disregard the internal software scopes is they do not measure the signal from the output device as a hardware scope would downstream of any sort of a PCIe based I/O card. How is that accurate?

I work as a video engineer/camera shader with thousands of live shows broadcast internationally, nationally and regionally. I can’t do my job without proper hardware video signal measurement. If you’re making money on your business providing programming for broadcast, there is no excuse for not having hardware scopes.

Some feel the FCP/Color scopes are accurate, I wouldn’t go that far.

[Craig Sommerer]

What sort of issues and are they documented?

[Craig Sommerer]

It isn’t your Kona cards fault, for whatever reason FCP won’t read SDI embedded timecode, it needs to be in the rs422 stream which your camera doesn’t have.

Perhaps this box will help. https://www.adrielec.com/box20lit.htm

[Craig Sommerer]

Thank you, Richard.

I think what it’s always been is not only my lack of motivation to really investigate this phenomenon but also a display anomaly as this line is not in a print of an image nor is it present in any sort of video application. It appears at various scaling percentages in the work space. I guess nothing is wrong.

[Craig Sommerer]

There’s a photo of a breakout cable at this website. All connections are RCA https://www.4videoequipment.com/video/store2/Scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=9339&E=Blackmagic+Design-Blackmagic+Intensity+Pro+-+High+Definition+HDMI+I/O+Capture

I’m a bit surprised but also not really as this is a consumer card. However, I’m very surprised as this website has a photo of the breakout cable as the Black Magic website does not and I couldn’t get one from them even with a request via email.

If this is indeed the Intensity Pro breakout cable, get male RCA to bnc adaptors and make your own bnc cables.