Gregory Dillard
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very funny Bob, but i liked that.
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As it stands now i have not installed anything relating to the KONA LHe again, but i need to get it to work as i have some HD projects due this week. PLEASSSSEEEEEEE help someone if possible! Tired of pulling out my hair.
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For the record i just set up my Canon XL H1 with the HD SDI and captured to the XSERVE RAID via the KONA LHe and guess what?…FREAKING AMAZING!!!!! if anyone is setup this way then that means that i am beating a dead horse, but WOW! A lot of space it eats up as i captured about 30 seconds or less and it was just over 1 GB! Really excited about the AJA i/O HD coming out! This should really be amazing for XL H1 users. I am not discrediting any of the other cameras, but IMHO there is no way that any of cameras that don’t have HD SDI out can match this camera. No way! GREAT JOB CANON as i think that the HD SDI option matches with the other high end HD cameras, but you have to have the equipment to achieve this. Just my two cents.
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so in essence once i have the AJA i/O HD, then i will be able to shoot directly to the drive without going to tape and it will look better correct?
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guess what this is called….marketing and advertising! Think about it. For example, several wines that are all in the $15 category post up point of sale material that says “This chardonnay is the #1 wine under $15.” True, but they didn’t tell you that it the statisitics for one were on women under a certain height, weight, etc.,…. you get the picture.
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Thank you Walter. The reason i mentioned an 8 core is that i will use the i/O HD in the field to shoot and capture with our Canon XL H1 and bring in the footage via the i/O HD and a firewire 800 drive. Once i get it into post i would transfer the footage from my firewire drive to our XSERVE RAID and edit using the PRO RES HQ codec on the 8 core Mac Pro as i cannot do this on the Quad core G5 correct? Thank you again for all of your knowledge.
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Gary,
point well taken and i please don’t take this in a derogatory matter. Paying the price for a new machine and an AJA i/O HD isn’t the problem, it’s just i should have been better prepared to know all of this upfront especially when this is your occupation and you allocate a certain amount of your budget for the purchase of new equipment. I just have to purchase an 8 Core Mac that’s all. -
Thank you Walter. I know that the Canon XL H1 doesn’t embed the audio through it’s HD-SDI, but i know that the solution is the Convergent Design piece. We will purchase that as well, but if i am only looking for video can’t i just use an uncompressed codec besides the PRO RES and still capture it via the KONA LHe without worrying about dropped frames? We have the XSERVE RAID and it’s connected via a fibre channel card. Not to sound redundant, but i will have a better image capturing via the HD- SDI into one of the HD formats as opposed to firewire which is HDV correct?
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Walter,
thank you for your response to me on a previous post regarding my KONA LHe and XL H1, but i must say (for whatever it’s worth), that this is really not fair (APPLE) that a Quad Core G5 can’t handle ProRes and correct me if i am wrong, but the requirement information was recently given to us after so many of us have made these purchases assuming (never assume) that we would be okay with our Quad Core G5’s and the new Final Cut Studio 2. After already plunking down$600.98 for the AJA KL Box for the LH and the KONA LH Box cable kit plus $1644 for the KONA LHe, which totals out to $2,244.98 i basically have to spend another possible $4,000 on a 8 core machine to use PRO RES when my Quad Core G5 can’t handle it?
Where is the protection from APPLE in this in regards to saying that their LOYAL customers have invested A TON of money into our products…..oh hell, let’s just bend them over again and add sand for texture!
This isn’t right, and this is my opinion only, but being a business owner i do understand that APPLE is in the business of making money so i guess that we have to keep up or hit the road. Does anyone else out there feel the same way? By the way, my $4,000 figure was incorrect as i have to add another $3,495 in there for the AJA i/O HD when it comes out. -
Thanks Walter. No i don’t want to edit in HDV, but HD. Also are you saying (or shall i say APPLE) that i can’t use the PRO RES codec with my quad core G5? Also seeing that i have the HD SDI out of the camera into the KONA LHe SDI in, do i have camera control or do i have to do a capture now? Once again thank you for all of your advice.