[Ramona Howard]

We are but like you LA is our second home. I will drop you a line next time we are in town and if you are there also maybe we can meet up.

Yes, we must be careful what we quote, one can not always predict what will be a successful venture.

Cheers,
Ramona

[Ramona Howard]

Clay,

USC? Aren’t you on the East Coast?

If your in LA, we gotta get together and do lunch….

Cheers,
Ramona

[Ramona Howard]

I’m with Clay on this one.

It’s kinda like our days with the MP3 list we ran, it was only a matter of time before everyone made it. Now look where we are.

I’m curious to see what will be on the shelves at christmas.

For those who do not know we were part of the MP3 push when it was nothing more than a controversy. We hosted a huge list that helped launch the MP3 revolution, and what a revolution that was. Funny thing is we were just doing it because it was a cool format and didn’t make a killing on it like Apple. Interesting enough there are still a few people we run into that remember that. It’s kinda weird, it seems like a lifetime ago……………

Cheers,
Ramona

[Ramona Howard]

I have to say this forum keeps me scratching my head. I have to think really hard, aren’t we doing that already because it is all so very confusing, for us laymen(or laywomen).

We have so many customers doing so many different things it’s even hard for me to keep track of good and bad info. When I get the good stuff I try to get it in the wiki asap which is where this thread led me.

I like to post in this forum not only because we are using AJA products but like you said to remind everyone that there is more than one way to skin a cat, fry an egg or is it make a dub.

Cheers,
Ramona

[Ramona Howard]

I have a cheap crystal ball for sale:

Low hours, clear reception, portable. Only drawback, it isn’t always accurate.

sorry couldn’t resist.

Don’t you love chasing the target!

Cheers,
Ramona

[Ramona Howard]

Sean,

Sorry I jumped in late here and I will try not to screw this up.

First off:
The 1080i60 material can be two ways, which are we talking here?

You either have 1080i60 that everyframe is interlaced or 1080i60 with 2:3, like what comes off a Telecine?

The K2 will allow you to capture in without 2:3 so that will eliminate all the rendering as long as the capture software supports this.

A very important item to keep in mind that the AJA boards have functionality that not all software will or can take advantage of and trying to understand it all can be somewhat overwhelming.

Actually we can do a reverse 2:3(or really any cadence) using the AJA boards and with excellent results. Here is a great paper that may help.

https://www.spectsoft.com/wiki/RaveManual/Solutions/Film/24pto2997/Understandingtheprocess

Cheers,
Ramona

[Ramona Howard]

And many before us…….

Cheers,
Ramona

[Ramona Howard]

Thanks Walter for the plug.

Paul,

AJA products are very cross platform and are used in Linux, Windows and Mac systems daily. Depending on what you want to do and on which platform you will find varied levels of support. Solutions such as ours on Linux required us to write our own driver many years ago but AJA has since supported this OS. I would suggest a call to AJA to discuss your needs.

Cheers,
Ramona

[Ramona Howard]

Not really the forum for this but here is a brief response, if you wish to discuss further, please post on the AJA or Linux forum.

The use of Linux may be considered a niche market, although Linux can be found in every top studio worldwide. Used on servers for years Linux has begun to make it’s way to the desktop.

Here is a link with a huge list of products that are available on the Linux OS

https://www.spectsoft.com/wiki/RaveManual/Solutions/Film/FilmsusingLinux

Although this industry will find it’s desktop editing market mostly on MAC, Windows and AVID, Linux plays a huge role in the studio for compositing, animation and rendering. As to I/O boards, since not many high-end editing packages exist on the platform, companies traditionally have not supported I/O in Linux (to name only one of the issues) and to fill the niche that we all talk about companies such as us(SpectSoft)have written our own Linux driver to fill the need rather than asking the hardware company to do so.

Asking a company for support to a very small percentage of sales for the Linux market is something that you will find not easily welcomed. One must understand that a driver in Linux is not supported the same as in MAC or Windows. Due to the various distros, code must be available to the end-user to re-compile OR you need to have multiple drivers to support the multiple distros. Companies are not to keen in opening that code up just yet and the percentage of sales prevents them from supporting multiple drivers.

Dollar for dollar a product on Linux will still give you better value longterm and unlimited options than that of a proprietary product. This is why so many studios have gone this route.

Hope that helps a bit,

Ramona

[Ramona Howard]

Gary is correct in saying that this is not a hardware issue BUT a software issue, the AJA boards are fully capable of reading in the TC and this is something we have been doing from the start with RaveHD. RaveHD reads the timecode via RP188 and embeds it in the DPX header thus giving every frame accurate timecode information.

Good luck in your quest,
Ramona