[Frederic Lumiere]

[Bob Zelin] “2) if you have trouble with genlocking a Digi Beta VTR and the AJA Kona, and it only seems to work when you free run (I had this issue also) – DO NOT LET IT GO – this is either your crappy existing black generator, or a problem with your AJA Kona card. DO NOT LET AJA EVER GET AWAY WITH GENLOCK ISSUES – CALL AND COMPLAIN (I have). Magic work arounds are NOT acceptable – the Kona MUST be able to lock to house sync. If the answer is the new Gen10 – so be it – but you should NEVER accept “free run” as a workaround answer.”

I never thought I had a genlock issue – the issue I had was that once in a while the audio would get scratchy for no reason. Another try would usually fix it. Going “free run” seemed to have fixed my scratchy audio issue.

I’ll get the Gen10 and give that a shot.

Frederic

[Frederic Lumiere]

[gary adcock] “see you in Amsterdam?”

Unfortunately I won’t make IBC this year. Got 12 shows to finish!!!

[Frederic Lumiere]

[Bob Zelin] “WAIT ! There is absolutely no reason why you should operate any way other than with your Black reference going into your AJA Kona 3 BOB Reference IN, AND the same black reference going into the REF Video input of your HD VTR”

What do you recommend you set the Genlock option in AJA to?

Yes, it doesn’t look like the deck is complaining about the reference.

[Frederic Lumiere]

Kona 3

[Frederic Lumiere]

[Jeremy Newmark] “What are your system specs?”

– FCP 5.1.4
– AJA Control Panel 3.4
– QT 7.1.6
– Computer is 2 X 3 GHZ DUAL CORE – 4 GB RAM OSX 10.4.9
– HDW-1800 HDCAM Deck

Thanks,

Frederic

[Frederic Lumiere]

[Ramona Howard] “Haven’t seen this issue on our side*. Proper Ref and ref settings play a huge role in getting this all right and can cause a variety of issues, something i’m sure you already know.”

Thank you Ramona – Looks like Steve was right on, Genlock was on refin in Kona, switching it to Freerun seemed to solve the issue.

I do have blackburst going into the BOB.

Frederic

[Frederic Lumiere]

[JeremyG] “[lumiere] “Also, my understanding of command-option-r is just to render a downmix isn’t it? It doesn’t downmix it.”

Correct. Not in the technical sense of the word.”

So what does it do exactly that audio render doesn’t do?

BTW, looks like Steve’s solution: ref in freerun on kona and input on the deck might’ve worked. Haven’t been experiencing the issue since then.

Frederic

[Frederic Lumiere]

Steve,

Yes – this sounds like a very plausible solution. I switched to free run on aja and ref – input on the deck.

Haven’t had the issue since then but then again, I’ve only done one master since… will update this post with an update either way.

I think this is very promising and will save me a lot of headache.

THANKS!

Frederic

[Frederic Lumiere]

Jeremy,

I don’t think you mean using the downmix option in the fcp audio mixer tool… my understanding is that will flatten my 4 channels into 2 and completely ruin my master.

Also, my understanding of command-option-r is just to render a downmix isn’t it? It doesn’t downmix it.

Thanks,

Frederic

BTW, how do I quote a post when responding?

[Frederic Lumiere]

I don’t want to mix down the audio – need 4 independent channels to the deck Full Mix (1&2) & M&E tracks (3&4).

Computer is 2 X 3 GHZ DUAL CORE – 4 GB RAM

Frederic