[Matt Larson]

[Bill Nelson] “So no matter what, your renders are now coming out gamma shift free, but in oder to get the proper preview out of AE, you need to enable the use legacy gamma?”

In the AJA control panel tab “codec” look at the YUV>RGB Conversion Gamma tab. Is it set to auto? I might have this wrong, but I think the Kona will set gamma dependent on frame size, but AE doesn’t necessarily do that. So, AE may be sending 601 to the Kona, but the Kona sees the frame size and sets it to 709. Anyway, try switching that out of Auto and see if that helps.

2 x3Ghz Quad MacPro
9 GB RAM
Mac OS X 10.5.5
QT 7.5.5
FCP 6.0.5
AJA Kona 3 (6.0.1 drivers)
G-Speed XL 12 RAID

[Matt Larson]

I couldn’t find any info on Google for Acoustech, do you have a link or contact info? We currently use DG, and that seems to be the only game in town.

I was wrong with the 10Mb data rate. It is actually 18Mb. Still, had I known the CC process once it leaves here as an MPEG (upload to them, dumped to tape(!), captioned, recompressed) I would have suggested we find an alternative sooner.

2 x3Ghz Quad MacPro
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Mac OS X 10.5.5
QT 7.5.5
FCP 6.0.5
AJA Kona 3 (6.0.1 drivers)
G-Speed XL 12 RAID

[Matt Larson]

Jeremy, you are right: Episode is a great product. The file I send to the FTP site look great. (I downconvert before I send the file to Episode).

I think the problems I’m having are coming from when they close caption the spot. From what I’ve been learning, they take the file I send them, uncompress it and add the captioning info, and then re-compress it.

I only get betas of the captioned spots for our library, so I don’t know how the others look.

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QT 7.5.5
FCP 6.0.5
AJA Kona 3 (6.0.1 drivers)
G-Speed XL 12 RAID

[Matt Larson]

[Jeremy Garchow] “What have you been FTPing? Transport streams?”

10 mbit 4:2:2 MPEG-2 files. I had to buy Telestream Episode because that is the only software for Mac that makes that kind of MPEG-2.

I had looked in to MacCaption before but I was hoping to not have to do the captioning in-house (ie: Me). I’ll look at it again though.

I never knew how good a Beta could look until I sent it downconverted HD from the Kona!

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QT 7.5.5
FCP 6.0.5
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[Matt Larson]

Aharon, that time displacement trick works great for something I’m working on, thanks for sharing-

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[Matt Larson]

Word of caution: Not sure what iMac model you are using, but I fried an iMac G5 a year ago doing too much compressing on it. It’s not designed for that kind of heavy duty processing load and it overheated.

As for the Server script, I’m no programmer, but you could probably write a script that would open any project file that you place in X folder. Then, it’s just a matter of having that FCP set to Auto Render (after 1 minute) and you should be all set.

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Mac OS X 10.5.5
QT 7.5.5
FCP 6.0.5
AJA Kona 3 (6.0.1 drivers)
G-Speed XL 12 RAID

[Matt Larson]

[matt johnson] “We’re starting to look very seriously at freezing the machines once all the kinks are worked out”

That’s a good plan. I have a cheap Firewire drive that I use to keep a working clone of my system on. Once I have a well working system, I plug in the drive and clone it. Unplug the drive and put it in a drawer. Then if I need to do an update or something in the system goes haywire I know I am only 45 minutes away from a properly working system if I need it.

Has saved me a couple times

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QT 7.5.5
FCP 6.0.5
AJA Kona 3 (6.0.1 drivers)
G-Speed XL 12 RAID

[Matt Larson]

So, when I lay off a 720p 29.97 sequence (which goes to tape at 59.94) to the 1400 deck, then re-capture that tape back in FCP with an NTSC easy Setup, this is the same thing I was seeing. (The randomness made me think I was doing something wrong in my tests.)

If I do this and I determine the cuts are on the wrong field, is there a way to switch that in FCP so the cuts are on Field 1?

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QT 7.5.5
FCP 6.0.5
AJA Kona 3 (6.0.1 drivers)
G-Speed XL 12 RAID

[Matt Larson]

[Oliver Peters] “It’s mainly a nuisance when I bounce the footage out to SD and then ingest it back in as SD.”

I’ll be interested to hear what you find out also. I ran into this myself about a year ago, and when I contacted AJA about, they didn’t really have an answer for me. Maybe you will have better luck explaining the situation. I saw it on a Kona 2 and 3 on separate machines, so I don’t think it’s a driver issue.

(In all other cases though, AJA support has been great)

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QT 7.5.5
FCP 6.0.5
AJA Kona 3 (6.0.1 drivers)
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[Matt Larson]

Try this:

Put your playhead on a clip you need to relink in the EDL timeline.
Find the timecode for that frame.
Open the clip you want to replace in the timeline from the browser.
type in the exact timecode where your playhead is
Drag the clip from the viewer window onto the Canvas window and drop it in the “replace” box
Your new clip should be lined up

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