Jamie Allan
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What are you expecting the card to do for your editing?
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As I said, we use 3870s in most of our FCP suites in house and the systems we config for major clients with no issues so far. Have you installed all the correct drivers? The 3870 doesnt have its drivers built into the OS like the 2600, 8800 and 4500 do.
This does bring up a bigger issue though – you shouldn’t change your hardware setup before your projects are finished! I’d suggest trying a new user account and see if you have the same issues.
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Hi Roli,
Feel free to give me a call on 0870 730 6969 or mail jamie at jigsaw24.com to discuss your needs, I work in the broadcast department at Jigsaw – we’re the biggest UK Apple reseller and our department specialises in NLE, Digital workflow, HD Camera systems, system integrations and SAN systems. We’re a Video Solutions Expert for apple and do most of their representation at media trade shows and events in the UK (Apart from BVE where we have our own stand) I can happily tlak with you about every aspect of the system you require 🙂
Regards,
Jamie
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“Because a Kona 3 does much more than dual link or 2k.
Up / Down conversion in realtime,720 to 1080 and 1080 to 720 cross conversion in realtime.
Codec conversion in realtime. (i.e. 8bit to DV, DV to 8bit, DVCPro HD to 8bit, etc..)
It’s a pretty much anything in / anything out box. If you’re working professionally in HD, it’s the card you want in your machine. ”
Fair enough, but I was going along the lines of the work being done by the person asking the questions. If they’re working with company promos and training videos there may be very little scope for that level of hardware conversion. I’d expect their delivery to be mostly online, DVD or bluray, but I guess its more down to what their clients require though.
So, if you feel the work may require the additional capabilities of the Kona 3 then go for it, if not the LHe would be sufficient. Is that a better way to put it? 🙂
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If you were on blackmagic cards you could use their live switching tool that comes free…but I understand this isn’t really going to help as you’re running K3s.
I cant think of any options for Konas off the top of my head, but I’ll look into it.
Failing that you’re looking at either converting the signals or investing in a real mixer 🙂
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If you’re working EX why do you need a Kona 3? There’s no dual link or 2k involved…
If its just for monitoring or laying to tape go for an LHe or even blackmagic hdextreme if you’re not capturing or converting alot of footage from HDCAM/digi etc..
If you’re going mac then your camera/format will determine what level of hardware you need to bolt on. Bigger data rates = bigger, faster, better storage. If you’re working below Pro Res even an internal 4TB raid on a caldigit card will be good enough.
As standard you should look at
8 Core 3.0/3.2 GHZ
Minimum 10GB RAM
Radeon 3870 GFX Card (Pref over the 8800 – too many problems with this card)
FCPThen decide what format you’re gonna work with, then fit everything else around that.
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Turn off Full render in your sequence menu, you should only need to conform when you’re printing back to tape.
Search is your friend:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/992125
https://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1450369
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You can add multiple scratch disks in FCP, or just change it to relate to your current project, or when you import the new project put the all the media in the relevant location to your current scratch disks…
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Aslong as you media managed the project correctly, and setup the correct scratch disks in FCP pointing to the right directory there shouldn’t be a problem…Lots of buts, ifs and as-long-as statements involved though…
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Aye, you certainly want to backup digital acquisition in the rawest way possible, I’d suggest a separate mirrored raid drive or loads of DL-DVDs for the job.
Either way, if you haven’t got digital information stored at least twice, then you don’t care about losing it…
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