Erik Hansen
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The Teranex Mini is a joke. If you need a standalone converter get the AJA FS1. If you need to do serious image/cross-conversions/inverse-telecine look at the Snell Wilcox Alchemist…
If you have the Kona3 and happy with the result, use it and be done.
– Erik
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But it’s not 2k then, and what about the quality loss when I do my film out… to youtube.
I keed, I keed.
– Erik
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Turn on the FTP (sharing) on your Mac. Then FTP into it from your PC. If you have gigabit network structure should be relatively quick.
– Erik
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Gary should have said Io (not IoLA) as you can use the Io as a standalone converter to (SD) SDI. The Io has composite, S-video, component and SDI inputs that can all be output to it’s SDI output to the Kona card.
The IoLA only has analog outputs, unless you use it as designed though firewire.
If the Io, is used as analog converter you should also be to use the Io Control panel to tweak color, hue, saturation, etc… I don’t remember all the options.
– Erik
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I think you can do the LUT conversion in the demo.
– Erik
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Well… Discreet uses Aja.
Also, Inlet uses Aja hardware.
– Erik
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One reason to install VTR Exchange is it allows you to capture still frames. Also if you machine/storage is fast enough you can also capture as file sequences (ie. TGA).
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From what I remember, due to the splitting of the color information to the CCDs, blue is always been the most heavily compressed. You can test this with just about any digital camera and Photoshop. Take a photo and view only the blue channel and you will see the compression. Anything that uses a CCD (scanners, video cameras, etc) will have the same results, AFAIK.
There is a similar effect in film. Each color has it’s own emulsion layer (I think that’s the term), and so the remaining part of the spectrum has to pass-through the next layer, and so on.
– Erik
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Gary,
I’m having a hard time finding the right settings to do the 720 > 1080 cross convert. Can you do a walk-through, or just some pointers…
Working with a 3700BP if that makes a difference.
Best,
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Leif,
The “gotcha” that I see is that there are no decks that will record 720p/23.98. There are decks that support 720/69.94 so you will be adding 3/2 on playback and then would need to output 1080p/23.98. There are some DvcProHD decks that can do this, but if you are delivering onto D5… Maybe D5 can do the similar, not sure.
I can’t say for sure whether a Teranex can receive a 720p/23.98 signal, but if there is a model it’s going to be one the more expensive ones.
Depending on your budget, I think the 3 options are 1) shoot 1080p/23.98 and be done (you can always offline in something smaller). 2) Shoot 720p/23.98 and software up-rez. 3) Shoot 720p/23.98, layoff to 720/59.94 and convert from the deck or Teranex.
Depending on your storage (and the possible FCP issues) I would shoot in the format that you are delivering.
Best,
– Erik