John Ladle
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it is my understanding that the audio break out, looping and 480p from the h15 unit are unique. i am not familiar with the convergent, but it looks to be the case. also, the h15 has an AJA 5 year warranty, which means something out there!
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sleep well, i am sure they read this and will have it done before the morning. check for updates frequently.
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i dont get the sluggishness thing. have the people you bought it from check over the system they sold you or parts of the system they sold you. something is wrong.
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well, the kona 3 would be the one of the three cards mentioned as specified compatible with the final touch. that could be a big start.
it has things-sd to sd, cross and up convert. more software, the DSK, etc…so yes, it is a better card. it weighs more too, noticably in my estimation, not sure what a scale says.
the difference in card cost for FCP systems is so miniscule, i have wondered why people generally dont to better for themselves. If you have a chance to get, arguable to only few people, the very best card FCP has-go for it.
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120MB/sec indeed. sorry, i almost always use lower case except when i shout. perhaps i should add technical accuracy to the exceptions for acceptable use of capital lets on posts!
sonnet does indeed work on XP and OS X. initial raw speed tests for the single 5 drive fusion 500p are 200MB/sec, and it can be aggregated with mulitple units on a multi lane card. i am less concerned about raw data transfer and only care about streamcount. on the mac and PC , i have uncompressed 8-bit hd (120MB/sec) working great while doing projects and it is suprising because i have always used scsi 320 and recently fibre. for my compressed hd, i have 4 or 5 DVCPRO HD streams going with no dropped frames. i am impressed–especially for the money. the housing was $499 and the card is $299 (USD). so although it is not free, if you pop your drives over to this unit, you can get very good performance with the chassis and card costing less than my soon to be ebayed fibre card.
so while fibre was cool because it has some neat overhead and film possibilities with the 4Gb, eSATA is cool because really large RAIDs are as low as $700 USD plus the cost of the raw drives. it does have raid one, and there is not a raid 5 scheme, but vs. fibre i was looking at for the desktop it is prefectly fine for local projects or heck, buy two. popping in 5 750GB drives @ 265 each, the chassis and the card was under $2000 USD for 3.75TB. not bad. cant wait for the 1TB drives to drop down….
A friend of mine acquired one as well and we both have had no problems and at 53 cents/GB, if i had a problem, i dont know how angry i would be. this is cheap even for on the shelf storage.
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8 bit 1080 uncompressed is 120mb/sec to be clear.
you’d be surprised what performance you can get from a sonnet e-sata. i just had one for a month as a science experience, but am still grinning at how fast it is for uncompressed 8 bit on 5 drives.
you did not mention your source, but you can ingest HDV natively and mix it, btw.
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what is your final output? DV 8 bit and YUV. are you delivering back to DV or is the video going somewhere else format or project-wise?
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uncompressed quicktime works well and would keep image quality high
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Rob,
specificly, yes, the kona 3 does the varicam to 1080p cross convert (which is so full of mathematical computations many do consider it a up convert).
this link will be of interest, especially if you want to have it in extremely high quality to pass quality control tests.
https://www.aja.com/pdf/AJA_casestudy_historyChannel.pdf
good luck!
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to set up the screensaver, just hit the remote’s “set up”. really easy.