[Martin Roe]

And it did 🙂

Thanks

[Martin Roe]

i have been having this exact same problem with my kona 3 in a brand new mac.

It is inconsistent. If i remove the card and reinstall final cut pro, the machine will reboot and I can use the card. However if i attempt to restart my machine after this, it hangs blue on the screen.

I thought it might be damage to the card (it is second hand) and was going to send it to AJA under warranty tomorrow, but I think I might try the firmware now instead.

M

[Martin Roe]

Just to let you know, i managed to make it work.

I have spent a happy day uprezzing NTSC to HD (with a lot of help from Shane’s tutorial) and am well on my way to having an onlined doc.

Thanks again,

Martin

[Martin Roe]

Hi Guys,

thank you for the quick and helpful responses. I feel like I got a comment from all the big guns too, I have read so many posts by some of you over the years that it’s quite exciting to get direct contact 🙂

Anyway, I am going to buy a k-box today and route it that way. I will let you know how it goes.

And I am sorry to disappoint you Bob, but I do in fact own, 4 Mac Pros, 3 FCP licenses, 2 Kona Cards, 1 CS4 license and exactly 0 cables of use.

I have a rack full of cables, but nothing that would help in the slightest.

I am a long time editor, but only started my own small post company in LA in February. We are expanding way faster than we thought and I am learning things I never knew I didn’t know 🙂

I shall make sure to pick up a few BNC pieces to future proof myself from more silly questions like this!

Thanks,

Martin

[Martin Roe]

https://www.aja.com/news/user-stories_article.php?id=6

The workflow described in this article is the one that I am going to be setting up tomorrow.

I have read the manual and understand what I am going to be doing as much as one can before one does it.

As I understand it, I will need mini bnc to mini bnc so that I can connect one of my kona’s sdi out to the other’s sdi in.

Then I can do the uprez in realtime.

Any tips would be very gratefully received.

Thanks,
Martin

[Martin Roe]

Hi Doug,

totally understood. I have two Kona’s and two Mac Pro’s sitting in front of me right now.

What would be the best way to connect the two of them together?

Whatever the correct cables are, I’d be happy to go get them.

Thanks,

Martin

[Martin Roe]

Hi,

Quick Update,

So I think after reading what I could find, that this may be some sort of issue with Merging clips that are then on the timeline, desynced (desunk?) for the purposes of moving things around there.

Somehow, this desyncing is then pushed upwards and the Merged clips are thrown out of sync.

My question is, is it possible to put these subclips back into sync?

I realise that I am using Merged/Subclips interchangeably and they are perhaps not. If this ignorance is part of the issue, please let me know and I will bone up on that. If it’s not, and you know a solution, I’d be grateful, I’m looking at a redo of an enormous project right now otherwise.

Yours,

Martin

[Martin Roe]

Thank you.

That’s completely fascinating. I look forward to seeing how things develop.

Cheers!

[Martin Roe]

Would I be right in saying that you see FCP’s lack of central management as a progression, then? That it’s actually going to be more effective, once the team starts playing together?

May I ask in what ways QT and OSX are at odds? Not politically, I mean, but technically. What is it that the politics are holding us back from?

[Martin Roe]

Thank you Steven for being able to see what I meant, better than i could.

A combination of exhaustion, stress and overwhelming relief meant that I felt entitled to rather more opinion last night than I can actually back up this morning…

Which is the only way that I can explain why I seem to have suggested that Avid’s storage system would have in anyway saved me from… what I’d be grateful if we could call… the human error that caused me to still be at work right now.

And I think that transparent smokescreens like that deserve rapid judgement for all my protestations to the contrary 🙂

What’s interesting, is that whilst I knew that the way that FCP handles media has always confused me, I didn’t know what it was that bugged me about it.

Put another way – i knew I had a question, but it wasn’t until I saw your answer that I knew what it was…

What does FCP gain from not having its own database and not taking a more proactive hand in managing its media?

That I only figured out the question because you gave me the answer means I don’t get a cookie. But perhaps it will get me another answer.

You say that the trade off is speed. Which seems reasonable – you don’t have to render every import… simply makes it faster… no question.

But apart from that stage is FCP really quicker? Is there any data on this?

I can’t help feeling that the Avid model where files, once imported are, copied, relocated and unified (by which I mean MXF – which I will admit to not fully understanding ) gives you a security that FCP lacks. And that it’s not really any faster.

Or if it is… the future should be about making stability faster, getting our cake out and eating it.

I bet there’s a thread on this, huh? I’m intrigued. And man enough to admit my mistakes.

As I sit here watching the pull list print, it’s pretty obvious that with my old filenaming system, I’d have crashed an avid eventually too.

So I’m going to accept it. There’s no one else to blame, Cinema Tools wasn’t trying to ruin my evening…

Wikipedia was.

When it was suggested that we use the ! naming system at my last place of work, we all thought it sounded like a bad idea.

But the suggester had two very strong arguments on his side… the fact that it worked fine with every app we tried, and that fact that the wiki entry for filename lists OSX’s file name limitations as being only two – null : and backslash /

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename

We believed. We thought we were the future. We quickly read the article without fully understanding it because it was useful. And so i ended up missing Lost…

! You all know who to blame.