[Doug Beal]

Unplug the deck from power
power back up and see if you have a hardware switch named “key inhibit” make sure it’s off
if it’s not a hardware switch it may be a menu item.
I don’t know this deck but thats the behavior on the pro decks when key inhibit is on.
It may also be menu settings if it thinks it’s in remote.
sometimes a reboot helps. ie power down power up

Doug Beal
Editor / Engineer
Rock Creative Images
Nashville TN

[Doug Beal]

[Bret Williams] “Every 4th frame is repeated just like motion pictures. “
actually 24 frames of film going to video is A frame/ B frame/ BC combined frame/ CD combined frame/ DD frame
Thus 4 frames of film (ABCD) fit in 5 frames of video in NTSC

The 4:1 cadence is an anomaly interpreting panasonic 24P. It was an issue in a quicktime /FCP update a few years ago and have not run in to it since except for a few pieces that made it past somebody and went to tape that way only to resurface when recaptured

Doug Beal
Editor / Engineer
Rock Creative Images
Nashville TN

[Doug Beal]

Compare the price of rebuilding an edit in AE or rendering out of AE, needing changes going back in rendering back out etc it’s a no brainer as far as cost goes, let alone client satisfaction with a clean composite.
As a side note it makes for an excellent way to push VFX to other facilities. capture in FCP and sequence, push to AE, deliver AE project and media to VFX. almost all have a way to deal with that.
I’d say autoduck is a huge bargain

but please Wes I do need to update soon, and after moving and building a new facility things are tight

Doug Beal
Editor / Engineer
Rock Creative Images
Nashville TN

[Doug Beal]

You might want to consider automatic duck as an alternate workflow. You can push your edit into AE layers and all intact from FCP.
https://www.automaticduck.com

Doug Beal
Editor / Engineer
Rock Creative Images
Nashville TN

[Doug Beal]

the 2 gig limit occurs if you export to a Fat32 drive. You’ll need paragon NTFS to write to an NTFS drive on a Mac or put macdrive on a station the DS can access.(macdrive is NOT recommended on a DS) The DS will use whatever media you send it and create GEN files if it’s version 10 or MXF if it’s prior to version 10. You might also see a gamma change moving across platforms.
Though your grading monitor is somewhat suspect, why not render out of FCP a short test particularly were you might be seeing issues with text and take that to a Kona or BM enabled station at a local post house and see what it really looks like on HD Scopes and Monitors.
if you render out 10 bit uncompressed it’s basically 10 gig a minute
something in the order of 2TB drive for the complete movie with wiggle room.
It’s pretty much an overnight copy for the whole thing to an array capable of playback, and a heads up is in order to make room for a file that large. I have 12TB available to me but would not have room for a 2 TB file with wiggle unless I prepped a day ahead of time due to ongoing and archived projects that need to be accessible.

Doug Beal
Editor / Engineer
Rock Creative Images
Nashville TN

[Doug Beal]

If you have PS3 extended you get all the familiar tools in photoshop on video
clumsy mouse driven controller though make sure you activate animation controller.
arrow keys move the footage NOT the frames. need to use the mouse for that
great dirt fixes! cleanup

Doug Beal
Editor / Engineer
Rock Creative Images
Nashville TN

[Doug Beal]

Should be called TC preset on the deck.
isn’t that one of the earliest DV decks sony made? I don’t think that one can do an assemble edit. think it’s the forerunner to the DSR30 machine. good transport not a great editing device

Doug Beal
Editor / Engineer
Rock Creative Images
Nashville TN

[Doug Beal]

for testing once or twice you can make it work but in the heat of battle something may go awry.
doesn’t seem like good practice to me. I would prohibit anyone doing that to my box.
not an informed opinion but an old guy point of view

Doug Beal
Editor / Engineer
Rock Creative Images
Nashville TN

[Doug Beal]

you can only step through frames. In the Kona control panel you can set behavior via “still frame” check fields or frames. set it on frames and arrow key through frame by frame. It will display any inter field motion when set on frames provided you are monitoring via an NTSC monitor connected to the Kona output. If you monitor on a computer monitor or plasma etc you’ll only see field 1.
if you notice the easy setup for AJA Kona 720P 23.98 DVCProHD VFR, the playout is 8 bit 59.94.
The other issue here is from what point the pulldown is applied and whether or not you are going out to a Drop Frame dbeta master. you want the cadence to start at 1 hour, ie first frame of content.
you may need to copy and paste into a new sequence and insert at 01;00;00;00 to ensure the proper cadence

Doug Beal
Editor / Engineer
Rock Creative Images
Nashville TN

[Doug Beal]

well at least you can preserve frame rate if you want to keep your 23.98 stuff 23.98. just print to HDCam and your 720P 23.98 timeline goes to 1080 23.98 Psf
not much out there that can play 720P 23.98. Even the DVCProHD decks from Panasonic will not record 23.98 nor frame flags unless they’re driven by a varicam TC generator and placed in slave ltc. they record in 59.94. The downconvert on the deck is also based on the deck playing 23.98 over 59.94 thus inserting pulldown and allowing a standard def downconvert to 525.
So really the Kona is following the accepted practice, except for allowing the output to 1080 23.98 Psf and allowing the easy preservation of the originating frame rate.

Doug Beal
Editor / Engineer
Rock Creative Images
Nashville TN