Mladen Erjavec
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We have here Tascam 1082 with KONA 2 on sound suite and it all works like a charm, never had any problems. Voiceover recording to picture in FCP, LOGIC Studio, Soundtrack PRO, everything works well and without any problems.
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You’re right – nothing in this price range matches XL H1. And IO HD working with Mac Book Pro’s means soon you’ll be able to do HD-SDI capture live on site as well as in the studio…
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Exactly. I’ve seen this work – I think Canon actually generates ful HD picture, and then looses pixels saving as HDV. So – if you digitize live from camera, you actually get 1920 pix with instead of 1440 of HDV. You can still record your HDV of course, and have it as a backup.
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One more thing:
If you’re in studio environment, and you are able to capture directly from camera to HD-SDI (without recording to HDV tape first), then your footage WILL look noticably better.
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Jay, Wayne,
Thank you very much for your comments. Only thing I was concerned about is that, when reading about XDCAM HD codec, it looks, well, like gloryfied HDV :-). In other words – great looking MPEG, but as far as I know, MPEG doesn’t edit well…
I think that in the end I am gonna stick with DVCPRO HD, especially as we already have a nice library shot on both Z1 and SONY 750 archieved in this great codes. Your AE comments were extremelly useful – don’t really have the time for gamma mess right now…
Thank you again,
Mladen Erjavec
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Just to report, I’m running both 5.0.3 and 7.0.3 (overeager editor clicked “yes” on auto-updater), and everything is fine and smooth, doing SD uncompressed project and DVCproHD project.
Mladen
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[gary adcock] “it an also be passed over the Firewire connection
while the video is passing thru the component out. “Gary, how do you do this? I’ve tried changing device control to all possible firewire options available, none works. if I select “HDV firewire” in setup before opening “Log & Capture”, it won’t even let me open it.
Is there a catch? If it isn’t too much trouble, could you explain exactly how do you do this?
Thank you ,
Mladen
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[Craig Meadows] “-Capture via firewire then use the Kona-2 to transcode somehow to DVCPro100? If so, how do you do that?
-Anyone doing this?
-How does it look and perform?”I’m doing exactly that – capturing HDV via firewire and then converting it to DVCproHD using FCP’s Media Manager. I can’t see any difference in picture quality whatsoever. Pros: you get to keep the timecode, and you have at least some form of VCR control over firewire. Cons: HD purists will tell you that some quality will get lost this way. You decide.
Other way is to capture using analog component output directly to KONA as DVCproHD. Cons: no VTR control, no timecode.
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[gary adcock] “AJA has a 30 day return policy, you may want to look into it if it is a real issue for you.”
Honestly, no. I was just making the point of NOT being pissed off 😉
KONA 2 was literally working great 1 hour after UPS man arrived, within the week I had one documentary edited, client impressed and everyone happy. KONA 2 is obviously mature product, drivers had several updates… not sure I’d jump on brand new card just because I’d save 1000 US …
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[gary adcock] “FCP does not see TC over SDI , so you would need some sort of Serial connection (or FW) for Deck control.”
Funny, now I am confused even more
Both Convergent ( https://convergent-design.com/CD_Products_HDConnectLE.htm ) and Miranda ( www. miranda.com ) claim that HDV gets converted to HD SDI WITH TIMECODE…. Is this FCP issue you’re talking about?