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Luis Martino
January 19, 2012 at 10:07 pm in reply to: Switching from Kona LHe to Decklink SDI – Pros/Cons

Well, that’s “awfully” reassuring !
I’ll keep that in mind. Our goal is to be able to use our monitor while color grading as well as have “most” of the basic features of our Kona LHe, like hardware effect acceleration and AES Audio output, etc.

Thanks for the tip about the decklink control panel. I also enjoy the AJA control panel. It is very intuitive.
Luis Martino
January 18, 2012 at 10:20 pm in reply to: Switching from Kona LHe to Decklink SDI – Pros/Cons

That’s what I also tested on our Monitor, Jesse.
In our case we are using a Sony LMD2450W with a BKM option for SDI Input. It has audio LR output which I connected to our mixer to output through the speaker. Sounds better than the crummy monitor speakers but not as good as the real AES output from the Kona Card. Sound came out really low, had to add gain on the mixer to hear it.

The question now is, does the Producer care about sound while color correcting ? Not really.

But not having the breakout cables with the option to monitor real audio output would be a shot in the foot! =P

We will probably go with the Decklink Studio. It seems to be the most similar to the Kona LHe (SDI I/O, breakout cables, real time effects for FCP). We already spent money purchasing a control board and a Graphics card to able to run Resolve on our MacPro3,1. Now we need another expenditure to properly use it.

I hope it’s worth it !

Anyway, thanks all for the feedback. Will post result once we get it working on our end.
Luis Martino
January 17, 2012 at 11:29 pm in reply to: Switching from Kona LHe to Decklink SDI – Pros/Cons

That’s good news. I know result may vary from setup to setup.
The SDI has no breakout cables so do you monitor DaVinci with sound coming from the SDI signal?

We might go with the Studio models which has the breakout cable connector so we can monitor it through Monitor Speakers as well.
Luis Martino
January 17, 2012 at 11:07 pm in reply to: Switching from Kona LHe to Decklink SDI – Pros/Cons

Yes, I’ve read the manual and config guide. I know they recommend using the Extreme 3 card, but if anybody had success using either the SDI or even the Studio version would be interesting to know.

Also, we don’t intend to do heavy work on RED or even 2K footage and would work only on ProRes HQ 1080p files.

I just think that getting the Extreme 3 would be overkill for what we need.

If we ever get the card and it works out I’ll post the results.