[Erik Lindahl]

I must agree with the first post – the gamma-shift when playing back sertain clips is HORRIBLE in the Canvas (but OK on video-montior). You should have the options to. It differs from clip to clip and format to format for me. Usually it looks BETTER when not playing back (it gets to bright when it’s playing).

Sure hope they fix this

[Erik Lindahl]

You should be quite happy with the Kona 3. We finnished our first HD edit last week and it looked and worked terrific. We did, however, use the Kona LHe.

[Erik Lindahl]

MPEG1 or VCD for broad compatibitly (computers and DVD-players will play these 95% of the time). However, QuickTime or Windows Media will give you ALOT better quality on the video, but kill DVD-player functionallity and perhaps add the hassle for some to have to install one or the other.

Personally I’d prefer a good looking QuickTime infront of a low-res MPEG, but your do lose that broad compatablity

[Erik Lindahl]

The Kona LHe I reckon will out-put HDV to SD SDI or HD SDI without a HDV-conform. This should also hold true for the Kona 3, I reckon.

[Erik Lindahl]

I can just say that this DID work like planned. Decklink HD in 4:2:2 talks Kona HD 4:2:2. Very nice. All is gooooooooood! 🙂

[Erik Lindahl]

Yepps, it worked like a charm!

Great thing really, not having to go FILM > HDCAM > 4:2:2 Editing. HDCAM cripples the quality quite a bit.

[Erik Lindahl]

Okay, who’s “a post house” with the decklink?
Sto.pp in Stockholm

You or them?
?

Then you say that “we’ll be capturing” does that mean you are capturing off of the tape using the decklink, or are you editing with the LHe?
No, I said “We’ll use it [the Decklink-card at the post-house] to capture 4:2:2 1080i50 HD PAL footage to then be edited on a Kona LHe machine”. The capture on a Decklink – we edit on a Kona LHe.

Either way, if you both are using the Apple 10 bit uncompressed codec, you’ll both be farting through silk, as my mom always says. This means you’ll both be fine.
Yes, this is my whole question! 😀 So both cards CAN use the Apple 10-bit codec even in HD then? Thank you! 🙂

[Erik Lindahl]

Exactly! This is the $1 000 000 question =)

[Erik Lindahl]

Yes, this is the whole question! =)

As stated:
We

[Erik Lindahl]

With 8-bit Uncompressed HD you should get quite a bit of RT. I saw a demo of this at IBC last year.

However, I’m not sure how it will handle 2 hour programs OR if you’re running at full quality rendering, but I beilive so.

Simple CC at 8-bit should certainly be sufficient for most work, more advanced things would make you want to got to 10-bit, perhaps looking a Silicon Colors Final Touch HD would be a solution? I reckon they we’re talking about realtime HD color corection on the new G5 (Quad/PCI-e) system.