[Mike Faulkner]

so wayne you recomend component ‘out’ of my sony deck with firewire, and firewire back out of my mac into the sony deck?

will this still utlise my kona card when dumping stuff onto tape?

do I really need to get HDV to SDI convertor?
like
https://www.convergent-design.com/CD_Products_HDConnectSI.htm
what advantages does this have?

thanks for your help
mike

[Mike Faulkner]

firstly thanks walt and wayne for responding
I sometime feel I know nothing.

wayne are you saying use firewire only?
or firewire to control deck and use other connections?

cheers
Mike

[Mike Faulkner]

hi walter thanks for quick response

||||||||||| [mike faulkner] “- out of the sony deck to the Aja card via component
|||||||||||- in to the card [from the sony deck] via composite”

|||||||||||That sound redundant. You only need to make one connection to the AJA card, I would recommend Component.

Forgot to mention sony deck is component out only,
but composite in and out

what do you recommend

||||||||||| [mike faulkner] “- in the the monitor via composite [from the sony deck]”
||||||||||| No, I would go Component from the AJA Card to the monitor. You want to monitor your editing system.
||||||||||| You could also connect directly to the monitor via Composite from the deck so you could monitor that signal when making a recording.

okay

||||||||||| [mike faulkner] ”
||||||||||| but what about via firewire? use this as well or not at all”

||||||||||| Not unless you plan to capture in the HDV or DV codec. It’s not needed otherwise.

I will occasionally use DV codec, so I guess I can hook the deck up with both Firewire and component.
how does the deck and computer tell the difference
I am guessing in FCP set ups?