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Mark Curry
March 8, 2010 at 7:34 pm in reply to: Fitting CS4 PAR into a CS3 PAR workflow

Thanks Roland, this is good to hear. I have come across others stating this as well. I should do a test to satisfy myself, but for now I’m going to stop bearing myself up over this and get to work.
Mark Curry
October 5, 2009 at 5:40 pm in reply to: Custom Capture and Sequence Preset

Thanks Gary,
Yes I’m not surprised I can’t capture to a non-standard size. I’ll give Episode a try especially in light of this specific advantage over Compressor. I’ve used the Teranex before for standards conversion and am not surprised it will be called on again. What software do you recommend for the formats conversion for those works that I receive that are files instead of tape media? Do yo find Episode or Compressor to give acceptable results with PAL>NTSC format conversion?
Mark Curry
October 5, 2009 at 5:12 pm in reply to: Custom Capture and Sequence Preset

Believe me, I would never attempt to do all the conversion in FCP. I most definitely understand the benefit of hardware such as the Kona. In fact as mentioned I would like to avoid software altogether and capture to 448×336 and be done. I’m not really doing any editing – just transcoding. Transcoding in software to 448×336 from a standard resolution will add considerable time, but I didn’t really expect to capture directly to 448×336.

Can the Kona 3 capture PAL SD as NTSC SD? Again, not having to run PAL>NTSC conversions through software will be a big time saver.
Mark Curry
October 5, 2009 at 4:37 pm in reply to: Custom Capture and Sequence Preset

Yes, but multiplied by the hundreds of files I’m converting, it becomes considerable. I’ll probably use Apple Compressor to do the conversion.
Mark Curry
October 5, 2009 at 4:20 pm in reply to: Custom Capture and Sequence Preset

Rats. I expected this would be the case. This means a lot of software transcoding then – a lot of time.
Mark Curry
October 5, 2009 at 3:11 am in reply to: Custom Capture and Sequence Preset

Anyone??
Mark Curry
October 1, 2009 at 3:02 am in reply to: Custom Capture and Sequence Preset

^ bump : )
Mark Curry
September 30, 2009 at 2:36 am in reply to: Custom Capture and Sequence Preset

Hi gary,
Right these are decidedly not standard video resolutions. I’m conforming various standard resolutions from tapes and files (NTSC, PAL, HDV, etc.) to a resolution that matches a large LED screen (aka Jumbotron – outdoor screen). The LED screen hasn’t been finalized, but they are general pretty low resolution and are not standard video resolutions. The current screen candidate for instance is 448 x 336. I’d like to take advantage of hardware’s superior speed, ease and reliability (versus software transcoding). So, I’m hoping the Kona supports weird dialed-in custom frame size capture settings. The Kona 3 manual discussed creating custom presets, but I don’t know as I’m looking to rent a post-production house.
Mark Curry
September 29, 2009 at 7:59 pm in reply to: Custom Capture and Sequence Preset

Also the resolution still to be finalized – may be 1024×768.
Mark Curry
November 17, 2008 at 1:38 am in reply to: Blur Edges Only

Thanks Darby, that’s got it. A simple solution (once you know it).

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