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Jnorman16
October 16, 2006 at 12:49 am in reply to: FCP to Kona LH to television by composite

Hi Bob – good idea to check the tv to narrow the problem.

The tv is fine. I have a DSR-11 hooked up, a cable tv box as well. And the Kona card sends out a great video signal when I’m working on DV footage. It’s just the DVCPRO HD footage that seems to mess it up.
Jnorman16
October 15, 2006 at 5:23 pm in reply to: FCP to Kona LH to television by composite

Thanks, I will contact them.

To add to the mystery, I have the ‘Default Kona Output’ set to Black when an App is not using the card. When I’ve been outputting DV NTSC footage to the TV, the TV will go black when I close Final Cut Pro. But now I notice that if the last output format set was the DVCPRO HD, either through Final Cut or AJA KONA TV, then there is a noise pattern left on the TV. It looks like this.

https://solidmirror.com/temp/KONA_LH_DVCPROHD_Noise.jpg

So it looks like the downconvert from DVCPRO HD to NTSC causes the card to add this noise overlay to the image, even when the card should not be sending anything to the analog output stream. Strange.

Jim
Jnorman16
October 15, 2006 at 4:22 pm in reply to: FCP to Kona LH to television by composite

Hi Bob – thanks for the reply.

I set things up as you suggested, including a few other combinations, but I still don’t get a clean image on my television screen. Here’s a link to a picture I just took of what it looks like.

https://solidmirror.com/temp/KONA_LH_DVCPROHD_NTSC.jpg

What’s missing in the still photo is that the tv is rapidly flickering as well.

So perhaps my card is damaged in some way, though I thought I read somewhere that the LH might have a problem sending an downconverted HD signal out through a composite connection. And DV NTSC footage gets sent out just fine. Have to keep digging.

Jim
Jnorman16
October 15, 2006 at 4:38 am in reply to: Audio out thru KONA is insanely loud! System sound setting don’t work.

I agree with everybody that having a mixer off to the side is great. But even with a mixer in my setup, I was finding the sound levels coming out of my KONA LH into my DIGI-002 (acting as a standalone mixer) were way too hot.

But I discovered something in OSX I hadn’t seen before. Either it appeared in a recent update, or I just never noticed it. But the ‘Audio MIDI Setup’ program now has an ‘Audio Devices’ tab where you can adjust the properties on the internal audio devices. ‘Built-in Audio’ was one device, but my Kona card was also also there. So I could reduce the output levels for audio from the card here, and now the levels are matched with the levels I get into the mixer from ‘Builit-in Audio’. Much nice and less likely to scare the crap out of me with very loud output.

Jim
Jnorman16
June 2, 2006 at 3:30 pm in reply to: Anybody using a Control Surface w/ Kona… warning

Sigh … human error, I’m happy (and embarassed) to say. When I installed the card, FCP opened up in the standard window configuration and the Audio Mixer window wasn’t open. Once I opened it, the MCU was back in business. And yeah, it sure is great to let my fingers hover over the faders for the sound mix then having to slide my mouse over and grab the faders.

Thanks for your response.

Jim
Jnorman16
June 2, 2006 at 4:10 am in reply to: Anybody using a Control Surface w/ Kona… warning

I just installed the Kona LH and got it working with Final Cut Studio 5.0.4.

But now my Mackie Control Universal doesn’t seem to be recognized within Final Cut, though it still works fine with Soundtrack Pro. So it seems that the Kona card is conflicting with MCU.

Any suggestions for troubleshooting this?

Thanks,

Jim