[Feidhlimidh Woods]

Editing isnt my primary thing, but there has been a lot of problems this year with FCP quicktime and adobe, in general though upto now the Kona hasnt been at fault its mostly QT issues. Our facility does have 3 Kona stations and they work well enough,but there are too many upgrading and compatibilty issues which as far as I know are less of a problem on Avid based systems or Smokes etc.

I f you have a good workflow with a consistent use of the right codecs and formats it is reliable and very fast it will happily handle 10 bit HD 10180 and downwards

[Feidhlimidh Woods]

AECS3 8.0.2.27

The issue seems to be that since the update changes playback in AE ram or space bar playback will only play at a very limited frame rate 11fps to around 6.
Also the playback via the video monitor cant seem to use the correct synch, which should PAL 25fps, it keeps defaulting to 1080 29.97 ( I can see this happen in the AJA control panel) everytime I hit the RAM preview or pop in and out of after effects. This results in a broken up image green lines etc in the video monitor only.

Both symptoms are similar to what I get if my external synch is not set correctly. It is set correctly now though

No matter which way I set the Control panel or the AE video preview settings it still pops back to 1080 29.97

FCP works just fine which I guess proves that the synch is ok, its confusing to say the least

Ive searched and posted a few other forums, AJA Kona 3 on CCow and the adobe AE forum, no responses back, but from your good self.

thanks again for your time

[Feidhlimidh Woods]

the full story is that I installed the adobe plug in, to get monitor feedback within photoshop. This caused the problem in the first place I then uninstalled everything AJA and reinstalled the latest version 6.0 and did not reinstall the adobe plug in just in case the problem remains, I guess I will have to go back to an older version, though I really wanted the photshp export function.
Thanks for your response

You install stuff on your working edit system without reading what it does or does not do??

Of course I researched it, somehow nobody mentioned it messes with AE RAM

[Feidhlimidh Woods]

Im not sure whether I read it on this forum or the Apple quicktime forum. But some bright spark suggested using the export quicktime movie function rather than render.

THIS WORKED, the export function will allow you to make quicktimes.

For those unwilling to risk the 2 other suggested solutions
https://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20080124101508276
invloves complete backup and reinstall
or
using Pacifist to downgrade ( a little risky apperently)

Though I found there was a serious quality issue with using the apple uncompressed 10 bit codec (it looked very compressed), the animation codec was ok.

So if you dont need a 10 bit render this will probably do, other than that there is psd and tga sequences which are as normal.

Beyond that this is unsettling shoddy development from Mac, who though I guess they would be loathe to admit these days would be nothing without adobe products creating their original and still predominent customer base.

[Feidhlimidh Woods]

yep, thats it, sorted, thanks