[Mike Mendoza]

Another advantage with going with Avid Artist COLOR is that you can add on to the suite later. There is Artist Control, Artist Mix, and Artist Transport that complement each other.

You can use Artist Color with Autodesk Smoke (the editor as well as color grading). Add to the list… Assimilate Scratch supports Artist Color also.

Sometimes creativity just means the daily work of helping others to see a problem in a different way.

[Mike Mendoza]

I believe Kona 3 is only capable of 2k max, and Kona 3g is 4k max.
Also, I believe Kona 3g has a bit more audio capabilities when using the optional breakout box.

As far as Smoke and the Kona 3g. You need to be running Smoke 2012 SAP (subscription advantage pack), which is not part of the trial or educational versions. In other words you need the SAP release for Kona 3g to utilize the HDMI output. The SAP release also has more options for other codecs such as ProRes. The SAP releases are not free and you need to be enrolled and pay extra for these.

When the next major release is announced (such as 2012 SP4?) they may add the codecs and hdmi support that is lacking. But who knows when that may be happen?

[Mike Mendoza]

you need the NEW 64bit drivers for ama
https://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/micro-xdcam/resource.downloads.bbsccms-assets-micro-xdcam-downloads-XDCAMSoftwareDownload.shtml#apps

Sometimes creativity just means the daily work of helping others to see a problem in a different way.

[Mike Mendoza]

Are there any decent consumer monitors with HDMI input that do not process the video and cause this delay?

I tried a friends LED monitor (Samsung) and also experienced a delay running Avid Media Composer via IO Express HDMI out to the LED monitor.

thanks

Sometimes creativity just means the daily work of helping others to see a problem in a different way.

[Mike Mendoza]

You either keep learning until you die, or you go work for McDonnalds.

Sorry man! You can’t work at McDonald’s either. 🙂

I work for McDonald’s (freelance), we have many Adrenaline Avid’s, FCP, Protools, and all the Adobe toys here as well.

You need to know how to use most of these tools forwards and backwards before you can aboard.

[Mike Mendoza]

Also you should know that in some cases opening older projects in FCP 6 causes weird problems with pre-existing speed changes in your clips. I opened a project that was fine in 5.1.4 with plenty of clips that had slow mo’s, and speed ramps… now in FCP 6 some are there, some not. A few folks have posted here with same experience.

Wonder if FCP 6.0.1 addresses any of the speed issues?

[Mike Mendoza]

FYI you may want to try

https://www.thenerds.net/SONNET_TECHNOLOGIES_FUSION_500P_5BAY_SATA_ENCLOSURE_WPORT_MULTIPLIER_INCL_CABLES_TRAYS.ENCSATAD5P.html

[Mike Mendoza]

Hmmm…. saw this coming. I personaly know lots of “qualified” people, myself included, who had lots of problems with the Sonnet arrays. All of which could have been easily avoided if Sonnet would have listed “approved drives” to use with their boxes. They should have never sold boxes that claim to use standard SATA 3.0 drives if they had no faith these boxes would be compatible.

Basically they should have started selling them populated from the start, if they were not willing to SUPPORT their CUSTOMERS using empty cases.

Are we now supposed to buy our memory, displays, SATA cards, etc from say . . Apple? To avoid any problems? Fooey

I totally support your right to build/expand/modify your own computer system, as many of us do. I can’t imagine how lame (and expensive) my street modified auto and Harley would be if i were to let the factory build it for me?

[Mike Mendoza]

AJA How about a trade-up program?

How about a trade-in credit for a longtime Kona then Kona2 user?
My Kona 2 works fine now, but wouldn’t mind taking advantage of some the great features found in Kona 3.

Doesn’t hurt to ask

🙂

[Mike Mendoza]

Thanks to everyone for your help on my raid adventures. I have been building FCP, Avid, and Media 100 systems for over a dozen years, so I am not complete NEWBEE when it comes to raids, formatting, etc. To be honest this is my first ‘port multiplier” raid so I am a bit stumped as to why it has not gone smoothly as hoped. I did try all the steps mentioned by BOB weeks ago, with no luck. However I did go through all of Bob’s steps again “to the last detail” and sad to say, no luck. I DO HAVE (2) of the Fusion enclosures at the moment (the original suspect, and the replacement) and both are giving me the same results.

All drives were erased one by one, tested in Disk Utility, and Kona Test, they all passed and I obtained between 62 to 72mb/sec read results. I tried to stripe and it failed. Started over again, erased disks, ran tests (all ok), striped, and this time it worked. Received read rates at close to 230mb/sec.

Now I copied all files (288gigs) from fw800 drive to new 2.3gb striped volume and it seemed to copy ok. When I tried to access files on this new volume, as I played a QT file, I recieved a device removal message. Basically I am recieving the same errors that have been stumping me for weeks. For giggles I tried onced again a 4 drive raid and behold it works.

I will be calling Sonnet on Monday to see if there may be any other items I need to review.
As I mentioned earlier I had suspected the original enclosure to be faulty, and now my replacement enclosure seems to have a rather tight slot (the lowest) where the drive (any of them) does not seem to slide in as easily as the others. Possibly I may have lucked out with TWO bad enclosures….who knows?