Mark Maness
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Well, I’m having some serious issues between the AJA Kona 3 and the ATTO Celerity FC-41ES. I’m getting dropped frames, loss of sync, pops and skips. And sometimes on the occassion, I lose my Kona card on startup. Then I have to remove the ATTO card, zap the PRAM and start the system. Then after all of this I can replace the ATTO card and everything runs fine.
I’v been in contact with ATTO and AJA about this and both are stumped.
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Wayne Carey
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Check out the manual that came with your camera…. you have to set it up for HDV output and FCP to HDV input for it to work.
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Wayne Carey
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Yeah… I did the same. Its kinda silly to have a UK release and not the US release also since the equipment is both systems.
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[walter biscardi] “Not sure on that one. G-Tech is stumped too as they sent a new unit, but it performed the same way. Very perplexing as their products are outstanding and we do run a G500 and G800 unit here. Put all the connections the same and only the G1000 slows down. “
Well… That’s odd.
I’m sorry if it seemed like I was asking basic questions but sometimes even the best of us miss the obvious.
Maybe your option would be to return it for another G800 unit. Sad that the G1000 is having problems. Would be nice to have that extra space.
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Wayne Carey
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Let me ask you this, Walter.
Don’t take this wrong but I have to ask. Do you have any FW400 devices connected to your system also? Just as a reminder and I’m sure that you know this, but the Apple firewire 400 and 800 runs off the same buss and FW400 has priority, therefore, your FW800 devices will step down to FW400.
AND as another thought… Have you tried changing the order of the drives’ connections to the computer?
And one more thing… The speed of the drives depend on their physical sizes. A 250 gig drive will be slightly faster than a 500 gig hard drive. Maybe look into that.
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Wayne Carey
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One thing, Johnny… When you clone your disk, make sure that you make BACKUPs of your current project before opening those and converting them to the new version of FCP. Remember, FCP is NOT backwards compatible.
I know, you’ll have another copy when you clone your disk BUT its always good to make a DVD backup of your project before changing anything!
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[gary adcock] “It is my understanding that because XDcam uses a non-standard pulldown ( NOT standard or Advanced) that you cannot currently extract the progressive frames over HDSDI out of the camera or deck– yet ( Wayne- pipe in if I am wrong) “
I’m not too sure about that… I’ve sucessfully extracted 23.98 using the pull down feature of the F70 deck just fine but that may be that deck only. I’m not very sure of the cameras but I would have to guess that it will work just fine. I used the AJA Kona 3: DVCProHD 1080i29.97 Easy Setup.
You could hook up you camera to the HD-SDI out, connect your camera via firewire for machine control and capture away in FCP.
[gary adcock] “The video out over HDSDI is always going to be at 60i – the only way I have extracted the progressive frames is via a FW capture into FCP 5.1.2, using the 1.1 version of the software.”
True. And I will have to say that the easiest route is using the Sony software. I have to ask, Gary… Did you get you software from Sony’s UK site?
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Wayne Carey
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Yeah… Just capture and edit using the AJA Kona LH DVCProHD setups. I’m not sure if there is a 24p setup but if you have the latest software from AJA, it should be there.
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Wayne Carey
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First, let me say that the crossgrade for FCP is only $49 unitl the end of December and it is a well worth investment for you. The latest version of FCP has full support for XDCAM HD imbedded in it and with the Sony XDCAM transfer software, you’ll be in hog heaven!
To answer your questions for the present….. Capture and edit using the DVCPro HD codecs. You may have to create your settings, I think, but you can do this very easily. Almost everyone here is using that for HD because of the files sizes and high quality for the output. And besides, if you can’t afford an HDCAM machine, chances are the facilities you’ll be airing use DVCPro HD. So, it only makes sense to edit and output to the same.
NOW…. if you upgrade your FCP (which is very very cheap for the moment), you can stay in the XDCAM HD codec throughout your entire edit until you output and since you have a Kona LH, you can output to anything.
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Wayne Carey
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Well, that’s an HDV thing with FCP. For some odd reason Apple took the stance of adding HDV support to FCP but they did it in a way that HDV is a seperate function of FCP, therefore, mixing HDV with anything is really not a goo idea. Haven’t you noticed that the capture window is totally different from the standard window?
One way to deal with this is to capture your footage in HDV in its only seperate project and use Media Manager to recompress the video into your codec of choice. OR you could just batch capture your footage using your capture card to any codec. This is the method that I chose for HDV. I capture thru my Kona 3 into the DVCPro HD codec and I don’t have any issues with HDV.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
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