[Jonah Walker]

I am having the same issue with DVPRO 720P HD going from After Effects to Final Cut Pro and having a gamma shift, and I do not even have the AJA Codecs installed on this machine. If I render to Animation, then the problem is not there, nut not only do I have to render, but this is a very graphics heavy show, and having all my graphics uncompressed is causing me major storage issues as well.

I am running AE CS4 and Final Cut Pro 7, and really could use a solution that worked for me, but so far have not seen anything here that has helped with the problem.

– Jonah Lee Walker
Video Editor, After Effects Artist
https://www.whaleofatale.net

[Jonah Walker]

I want one as well. There are tons of PC ergonomic keyboards, but so few for Mac. Really I would love to have a a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 400 that was a Final Cut pro keyboard.

[Jonah Walker]

I talked to AJA a bit about this. It seems since my monitor using either HDMI or component uses on 29.97 input and not 23.98, so I have to have my video playback set to 29.97 which causes final cut to add the 3-2 pulldown instead of the Kona card, and something in the Sony Codec is making it screw up and lose sync. When I turn the timecode on, it forces the Kona to do the 3:2 and the problem is solved, except with burnin timecode, which is not acceptable. Their current solutions are to either get a converter box through them so I can convert a 23.98 signal to 29.97 outside of final cut or we are going to try a Tri Sync Black signal and see if that does anything (as SD black doesn’t help).

This is a huge problem and really a huge hit for XDCAM EX for me. I really think it looks good, but with all these issues it may not be such a viable format.

Anyone try this on the BlackMagic Multibridge Pro? I am wondering if it would have this issue, since it has built in HDMI out, so I am wondering if it does the 23.98 – 29.97 conversion internally or does it use Final Cut?

[Jonah Walker]

I am also using XDCAM EX using a Kona LHe using a AJA HI5 SDI to HDMI converter on a 2x 2.66 Dual Core Xeon MacPro with 4GB of RAM and running off an external GRAID 5 drive Firewire 800 RAID (and it is the only ting on the firewire buss).

My material is 23.97, but with the HDMI converter I am playing back at 29.97, but am constantly losing sync. It is especially noticeable when I have something in something other than the first video track and I go back to the first video track, but it will go out of sync if I play for long enough.

I have talked to AJA, and they wanted me to switch to an internal SATA hard drive, but after reading your post I turned on the timecode, and now my sync is perfect, so this is an AJA issue for sure.