John Ladle
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of course it is true. dvcproHD is 12.5 mb/sec. sata drives can do 40mb/sec.
that said, it is NEVER a good idea to work from your application drive, but i use this all the time with a second internal drive for media. keep it defragged and work with one layer–no problems.
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Bob,
quite a positioning statement!
anyhow, if you run HDV footage, and have both products down convert–there is no comparison. you dont need a scope. if you want multiple layers of video without sapping computer resources, there is no comparison. some of these animals are more equal than others.
UC
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OK, this is highly biased!
AJA hardware downconvert, hardware compressed HD codec acceleration, real support team, advanced exchange, better features fully supported (use in motion, soundtrack pro, etc…). i just learned that the new Avid Nitris as well as the entire Discreet product line (Flint, Flame, Inferno) are all running on AJA OEM boards. seems to indicate AJA is a serious product. you have a really nice set up, no reason to go cheap on the device that responsible for the quality of your ingest, layoff and experience.
i can play 16 layers of DVCPRO HD or HDV with my Quad and a Kona–that for me is a big feature. All with a pristine downconvert.
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yes, you can. a 30″ monitor is required for the 2K preview of course. and the usual hook up for HD and SD preview the HD crop down and SD downconvert of the HD crop…connect as you would expect through the card…
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bob,
the HD10AVA has 4 channels of XLR and dual rate HD/SD for analog ingest, so the IO, while nice and has blue lights, is overkill for a simple Kona 3/K3box and HD10AVA. $4200. a bit less than 6k, but good point, no one else can do it.
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if you want everything, then the HD10ava miniconverter (coming soon, i am waiting on mine) and the Kona 3 will give you that.
analog input from beta, sd, HD, hdv…and the kona 3 will do the up, down and cross convert, oh, and native 2k to boot.
the price is right because i dont know anyone else offers all these capabilities
good luck and have fun with that set up!
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you sure can, but it must capture into the SDI of the Kona 3 card, not transfered via firewire. what kind of deck are you using? a JVC deck like the BRDV6000-SDI Professional DV Recorder with SDI Output Card for example. Also, the newer Sony and other SD decks have SDI output options.
if you have an analog deck, converters like the HD10AVA or the D10AD can provide Analog to SDI.
and of course, if you have another kona card, you can always output from one SDI and ingest to the Kona 3.
those are 3 ideas, but in order to utilize the card for transcoding other codecs (or upconverting SD to 720 or 1080) it must come be captured through SDI.
any of that help?
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the D10AD does component OR composite analog to SDI, whereas the D10A does component to SDI only. the HD10AVA is brand new and i am waiting on mine, but it does HD and SD component AND 4 channel XLR to SDI for $990. so if you have a kona 2 or 3 and plan on touching HDV from JVC or Sony as well as the HD component from the panasonic P2 HVX 200, it makes it easy to pay a few bucks more.
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try capturing with machina!
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i prefer to stay camera native if it is long form and not too much work, but for graphics intensive apps, uncompressed is better.
i have not had the XML issues, but my naming convention does not use “illegal” characters
the only issues i have had are speed ramping from FCP to FT and reimporting–it requires some tweaking at the moment to get it back perfect.