[James Reid]

They don’t mean just arbitrarily setting the dialnorm number to -23 in the Dolby Digital encoder.
What they mean is that the level of your ‘dialog only’ track, when analyzed by a program such as AudioLeak will yield an LAeq level of -23.
LAeq stands for the long-term A-weighted sound pressure level.
(If your program is already a mix of dialog, music, and Fx you will get an incorrect reading.)

If it doesn’t match, you will need to adjust the overall level of your dialog track up or down untill it matches.
Then bring to the encoder. Now you can enter -23 in the dialnorm box.
It’s essential that this number is correct, as it determines how the perceived level of
you program matches the levels of other encoded material on either side of yours.
I know you’d like this to be really simple, but it isn’t.
If you don’t mind reading a little more, I have more on my post at Apple’s compressor forum.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1057931&tstart=0

[James Reid]

Does this apply to you at all?

[James Reid]

This may help you:

[James Reid]

OSX 10.4.10 has not been a problem for me but QT 7.2 is.
In particular if you use Flip4Mac export from FCP for WMV creation.
This headlines their forums:

“Latest News: Export users – Please refrain updating to QT 7.2 if you haven’t yet – 7-12-07”

https://forum.flip4mac.com/forum/messageview.aspx?catid=10&threadid=263&enterthread=y

Either they will come up with a fix or Apple will, we are waiting.
(I have another issue with sample rate converion in Compressor 3.0.1
after updating to QT 7.2, but that’s for another thread)

[James Reid]

This Apple info doc explains:

“Maximum memory usage in Final Cut Pro is 2.5 GB”

https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93844

*snip*
“The memory available for allocating in the Memory & Cache tab of the System Settings window includes memory directly used by Final Cut Pro, but the program loads many other frameworks, libraries, and drivers, which may also allocate memory. Although this memory isn’t directly allocated by the program itself, the allocation still falls into Final Cut Pro’s address space and contributes to the 4 GB limit. Final Cut Pro reserves 1.5 GB of RAM for these frameworks, libraries, and drivers and so only allows a maximum of 2.5 GB to be allocated by the user.” *snip*

[James Reid]

Are you on a Mac?

“A note to Mac OS X users: Adobe After Effects CS3 does not currently support OpenGL accelerated previews and OpenGL rendering on PowerPC or Intel-based Macs”

https://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects/opengl.html

[James Reid]

From Flip4Mac:
“We have confirmed that when encoding WMV files with non 44.1khz audio sources after installing QT 7.2, you will receive “Inconsistent Audio Sample Rate” error and the encode will fail. This affects Flip4MAc WMV Studio, Studio Pro, Studio Pro HD versions. We are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.”

https://forum.flip4mac.com/forum/messageview.aspx?catid=10&threadid=263&enterthread=y

and

https://www.kenstone.net/cgi/discussions/general.cgi?read=91801#TOP

[James Reid]

You need at least an LCD HD monitor with component inputs.
You monitor through the Kona 3, not your computer’s DVi or VGA outputs.
Have you looked at setups in the Kona 3 manual?

[James Reid]

This might work for you.

[James Reid]

[Steve C] “I think the choice of None was under Fromat.”

Steve, there are no “none” choices under any of the drop down menus.
What you may be remebering is that if you chose a format for which
a capture device isn’t connected you will get a window with the following:
(I made an arbitrary choice to make sure I saw this message)