Fergus Hammond
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chanyo1,
If you’re interested, I have a barely-used DSR-11 I’m selling (it was a backup unit). Please contact me at fergus.hammond@mac.com if you’re interested.
regards,
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No kidding?! Wow, that’s great news. Did you have problems with the ATTO card before the EFI update? I just spoke with ATTO and while they knew the EFI update was out, they didn’t have any hope that it would fix their problem. They said a new ATTO driver from them would be needed. From your experience it sounds like they might be wrong. I wonder if our friend in Australia has tried it yet:
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=98&postid=860492
I do like that AJA seems to be very well connected to Apple. Clearly, they knew about the EFI update before it was released and that’s great.
regards,
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Oh, never mind: just read the HDV doc on the AJA site.
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Ok, now *I’ve* got a silly question: what would you want to do with a Kona card and the M25U? Input from the deck is via FireWire, right? And output back to the deck would also be FireWire, woudn’t it? What advantage would a Kona bring?
Regards,
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Hi David,
Well, that made a lot of sense. It’s what I did with some 1080i HDV footage from a Sony camera and it worked perfectly. It’s also what the Kona manual suggested. But here’s the odd thing: I ended up fixing the problem by doing the *opposite* of what you recommended!
The footage is 29.97 fps DVCPRO HD 720p60 from the HVX200. I used the 720p30 easy setup and made sure the sequence used the same. I couldn’t find a playback option close to that, so I’d thought the 8 bit 720p60 would be the best (I was assuming the playback fps was referring to the compressor type, not the actual frame rate). That didn’t work and it’s only when I finally tried using the 720p59.94 8 bit playback choice did it start working. That doesn’t make much sense to me. Or is 29.97 more lated to 59.94 than 29.97 is to 60? I think I now realize that the playback naming must refer to the actual frame rate.
I’m new to this so I’m not surprised if you’re smacking your head and saying “well, obviously!”.
Regards,
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Oh, I forgot to mention that one thing that’s odd is that if drag the playhead through the sequence, the video playback works. It just won’t play if I’m playing in real-time (or using JKL either in real-time or another speed).