[Nils Crompton]

Thanks for all your help guys. I have revised the suite to:

– MacPro (2008), 8x 2.8GHz, ATI Graphics
– 2GB additional RAM
– Dell 2407WFP 24″ Monitor
– Final Cut Studio 2
– Blackmagic Intensity Pro
– JVC 15″ Monitor TM-H150CGE
– RAID-0 3x 500GB Seagate SATA HDD
– Sennheiser eH350 Headphones
– Behringer MS40 Monitors

Total: AU$7854 (already have the dell, speakers and headphones)

I opted for the JVC CRT instead of the Sony LUMA LCD given that everyone seems to loath the LUMA’s.

I had a limited budget so i think this is reasonable suite. It is replacing a Pentium 4 Premiere system with no monitor or capture card…

My only concern is the Intensity Pro that monitoring through an Intensity vis Y/C to the monitor wont be as colour accurate as a Decklink or Kona card.

Any final comments?

Nils
Wax Interactive

[Nils Crompton]

Hi Bob,

AJA’s specs list analouge i/o

See:
https://www.aja.com/pdf/KONA_Line.pdf

Cheers

Nils
Wax Interactive

[Nils Crompton]

Thank you Russell and Walter.

It seems the Kona LHe is the right card. It does digibeta “right” and will output HD RGB Component to the Sony LMD-2030W for HDV monitoring. (The HDMI input of the Intensity is null given that HDV can be capture to prores over firewire.)

I am wondering however if I can save $1300 by getting the Decklink HD Extreme. Do you know if the Sony LMD-2030W accepts the HD YUV Component out of the Decklink HD extreme. Sony’s documentation is inconsistant sometimes listing only RGB and not YUV… there is a difference right?

Anyone?