[Marco Solorio]

Hi Jeff,

The Kona 3’s digital audio outputs are obviously uncompressed AES/EBU, but those discreet channels need to be muxed/converted in real-time to a single stream digital surround signal (e.g., AC3, DTS, etc.) as consumer coax or fiber optic; the same you’d get from any cheap DVD player.

It’s the real-time transcoding portion of it that makes me think such a box would be very expensive. I may have to just go the DAC route and feed individual analog ins.

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[Marco Solorio]

Jeff, you’re correct that there aren’t any receivers with a single AES input, which is not what I want to do. I want the single digital feed to be consumer coaxial S/PDIF (the same you’d find on any cheap $30 DVD player). Or TOSLink Fiber Optic. The key (and possibly the expensive part) is converting the uncompressed digital outputs of the Kona into such a single digital coax/fiber stream.

The “box” I need would have 8 individual (or 4 pair) digital inputs and one digital output (again, either coax or fiber optic, or both).

JC’s post above is probably more in line with what I need as the stream would need to be transcoded in real-time. Something that’s probably not cheap to do. =(

If worst comes to worst, I will in fact do an analog conversion into the analog surround direct inputs. Was hoping to stay digital throughout though.

Thanks,

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[Marco Solorio]

Hi Jeff,

Thanks again for the reply. I see what you’re doing, and unfortunately this is different than the workflow I’m trying to do.

You’re taking the individual digital outputs from the AJA device and converting them to individual analog outputs, then inputting them into your receiver as individual 5.1/7.1 analog inputs.

What I’m trying to do is take those individual digital output from the Kona3 and mux them into a single digital stream so that it can then be connected to a 5.1 or 7.1 digital coax input (like a surround receiver or any other device that accepts a single surround digital input). For example, the digital coax output on any DVD player is a single 5.1/7.1 digital stream. That’s the kind of stream I’m trying to convert to from my Kona’s digital outputs.

Thanks,

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[Marco Solorio]

Hi Jeff,

Yup, I understand the discreet digital output part from FCP. We’re outputting from a couple of Kona 3s (using the K3 breakout boxes) via its AES/EBU ports as separated channels.

What I don’t understand is how you’re then taking those individual digital outputs, inputting them into the two ADA4 boxes and summing to a single 5.1 or 7.1 digital output to then input into, say, a surround receiver with a single digital coax input.

Thanks again,

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[Marco Solorio]

Thanks for the reply, JC. But if I had to use a Dolby transcoder device for this, my fear is that the cost of such a device of theirs would cost more than my ProTools HD system! :-O

Thanks again.

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[Marco Solorio]

Hi Jeff,

Many thanks for the reply. This looks very close to what I need. Funny thing too is that we’re an “AJA facility” utilizing much of their hardware (Kona 3s, Ios, converters, et al) but I’ve never seen this converter of theirs before!

So how are you using two of them to sum to a single 5.1/7.1 feed/stream to your surround receiver?

Thanks!

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[Marco Solorio]

Thanks for the confirmation, Derrick. I don’t see why the “Home” version wouldn’t work. Curious to know why it’s listed as a recommend on the website.

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Thanks to everyone’s posts on this thread as it answered a few questions we had. We just received our UltraScope from UPS today and I have a couple of questions before settling on a dedicated computer to install the card and haven’t found the answers anywhere.

Firstly, why does Windows Vista Ultimate need to be installed instead of, say, Vista Home? As mentioned, this will be a dedicated computer solely for UltraScope. No other apps or PCIe cards will be installed in it, nor will it even live on our network. It’ll run one app, UltraScope, and that’s it. No BS anti-virus, email, nothing.

Requirements say an Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.5GHz or more. What would an equivalent Dual Xeon be? Just thinking of a cost-saving alternative as there are some deals on used dual Xeon systems out there.

Would really like to get a rackmount computer since this will be installed in the machine room… any recommends that can hold any of the approved PCIe graphics cards AND the UltraScope card itself? The one area we wont skimp is the PCIe graphics card as I clearly understand this is the heart of full frame-rate refresh.

Lastly, the one major “fault” I see with the UltraScope is that I can’t control it via a 1RU unit at my edit desk like my current rasterizers. What would be an AWESOME companion to the UlatrScope would be a 1RU remote control interface that can connect via USB or Ethernet for long runs to the machine room (like we’re doing).

Looking forward to getting this installed.

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[Marco Solorio]

Jeremy,

We decided to give the guys you recommended out for a try and ordered a few of there VSD2001 precision cables. Thanks again for the lead.

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[Marco Solorio]

This is a great link, Jeremy. Their PVC2 cable looks nice (and in yellow too!). I like that they heat-shrink the connector crimps.

Thanks again!

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