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I’m a big Avid snob. I’m the kind of guy that thinks Avid is by far the best NLE ever created, and that the only reason people don’t use it is because they are not willing to learn or study it. That been said, I’ve used Premiere, FCP 7, and FCPX and Premiere is the best in that bunch.

MacPro 8 Core 2.26 GHz, 16GB RAM, NVIDIA Quadro FX4800, 4 TB CalDigit HDOne Raid 05, AJA Kona 3, Mac OSX 10.7.4, MC 6.0.1

[Joel Perez irizarry]

Bob,

Thanks a lot for all your help. Now we have everything up and running. Last night I saw one of the commercials we produced that we made copies of with our new decks, broadcasted on TV and it looked beautiful. Is a nice feeling when you have control of the quality of your copies, rather than giving a file in a hard drive to someone else without knowing what they are going to do with it.

So thanks a lot again to you and all the Creative Cow Team. Vote for Bob Zeling for President! 🙂

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Hi Bob,

Let me bother you once more. My Aja Gen 10 just arrived and I’m having a little trouble understanding how to connect it. I need to connect it to both: the digibeta and beta sp. Do I just connect a bnc cable to the Ref Loop in both desks and one to the Aja Kona Break out box? You mention I had to connect it also to the composite cable in the Beta SP. Should a do the same with the DigiBeta? What is the AES 11 supposed to do? That is where I’m supposed to connect to the Kona break out box.

Thanks for your help

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Hahaha I’ll vote for you for president of the United Editors of America so the Aja Gen Act pass into law 🙂

Thanks for your help.

[Joel Perez irizarry]

Bob,

Thanks a lot for your help. After learning how the control panel works, now everything is working perfectly. We also ordered the Aja Gen 10, like you recommended.

Now I’m having trouble linking up the Beta SP. I’m basically connecting it to the DigiBeta Component and XLR audio outputs to the Beta SP intputs. It records the image and the sound, but the image is like out of place. The top and button of the frame are not where they are suppose to be. Does the Aja Gen will fix that? Or is the Ref Loop connected incorrectly? Right now I have a BNC cable connected form the Ref Loop from the Aja Kona break out box to DigiBeta, and then to the Beta SP. Are we suppouse to do that?

Sorry to ask all this dumb and maybe obvious questions. Like a said, I’m a newbie with professional decks.

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Here is an update. I manage to record to DigiBeta via SDI with embedded audio and it looks and sounds beautiful. The problem was my ignorance on how to use Kona Control Panel. I set the primary out to downconvertion and boom it worked!. No Artifacts, just a clean downconverted image.

The problem Im having now is that I cant set the secondary out. Im trying to do a set up where one of my SDI outs is plugged to the broadcast Monitor for HD preview and the other one to DigiBeta for recording. But I dont know how to set up the secondary. Right now there´s no image coming out of it. Any ideas?

Thanks again youve been really helpfull.

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Another thing I forgot to mention. We are monitoring with a Sony LMD-2450 LCD HD broadcast monitor connected directly to de DigiBeta via SDI.

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Thanks a lot for your repley. We did the test that you mention, and it worked perfectly: no artifacts. What should be the next thing to plug in? The problem seems to happen when we do Print to Tape from FCP with SDI and RS-232 pluged in. When we tried printing to tape using the analog component cable it also worked fine. What can be wrong?

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I’ve been editing for about ten years now, and I have used several system including Avid, Premiere, FCP, Vegas and even more advanced finishing products like Smoke and Avid DS. That said I’m currently using FCP as my main editing software and to be honest I’m not necesarly a big fan, but I do find that because is prbably the most popular of all the software mention above I can share my projects with more ad agencies than any other. So if you need to share your work with a variety of clients that also own their own editing suites your probably better off with FCP. It’s also hard to compare them only in terms of the editing programm since now a days is the bundle that counts. For me Color is a deal breaker and only Apple offers something like it. Color is very powerfull, it actually used to cost $6,000 when it was called Final Touch HD before Apple bought it.

DVD Studio Pro, Compressor and Motion ( even though I think After Effects is way superior) are also very usefull. So when you’re considering buying an editing software you should consider what is included apart from the editing software since nowadays they’re all very similar in terms of features and performance.

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That clarifies everything. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. The Cow is the Best! 🙂 I will go ahead with the FCP conforming anyway, even if it’s not as easy as in the Avid DS. We can save 6 of 7 grand per project doing it in our FCP system.