[Richard Dee]

Can you describe exactly what is going on?

I have the Tascam 1884 and with the quad I have had issues (even before I had the Kona 3 in there) It seems with other firewire devices
attached, it breaks the firewire bus sometimes.

I used to use the 2.7 with Kona 2 and the tascam with no problems.

I have gotten the quad/kona 3 to work with it, but not as smoothly as the 2.7

[Richard Dee]

slightly off topic –

I have been wanting a good monitor for my HVX200 HD camera, and was tracking a used PVM 14L5 on ebay that ended up going for over $1000 yesterday.

Luckily before bidding – I did an exhaustive web search and found a place in Texas selling a brand new 14L5/1 that had been out of the box for a few hours for a demo for $1000 that I just order this morning. the 20L5 I have in my edit suit is too big to bring on set (and too valuable to transport since you can’t get them), but the 14″ seems perfect. AT least I won’t have to deal with an LCD on set for a few years till they are perfected – or some other display technology come about.

Also I’ll be able to easily drag that into my living room to compare it to the Samsung SMPTE C projector I mentioned above. Should be an intersting comparison.

[Richard Dee]

BTW I just got a front projector- the Samsung sp-H710AE projector designed by Jon Kane.

It is designed to emulate SMPTE-C and HD color space – I have yet to compare

it to my PVM20L5/1 – but I will report back.

I have alot of experience with projectors and this is the best one I have ever seen- tons

of shadow detail – though the black level is not at CRT levels.

Last year this unit (labeled as the H700) used to retail for over $10,000 – since 1080P units

have come out at that price – The 710 now sells for around $3000 –

I plan on doing some FInal Touch on it soon.

[Richard Dee]

Thanks Tom,

I wasn’t outside the box before hitting option.

I love that drag feature (much more than copy/paste) since I am outputting

tons and tons of spots on beta this month.

[Richard Dee]

I could be wrong but I believe 10 bit in FCP is never realtime – at least that is what I was told.

I dont believe it was ever 10 bit realtime when I had Cinewave, Kona 2 or now with my Kona 3.

One workaround though it so work in 8 bit with realtime – then once done change the timeline to 10 but and just re-render.

[Richard Dee]

my biggest complaint of the screen (as well as the dvx’s screen) is that the viewing angle is rediculously narrow. anything off axis and the image looks horrible. (I mean toup and down of axis, forget side to side)

Though I love the panasonic cameras – the screen in the Sony TRV900 I owned years ago was better.

[Richard Dee]

I think the best way to deal with any compressed format is just to edit and color correct an effect as necessary in native format, then when done change the compressor codec in the timeline ti uncompressed and rerender.

[Richard Dee]

Thanks…

[Richard Dee]

>If you are waiting for someone to say “oh, don’t get this or that, because it sucks”, you are in the wrong place.”

Uh… do I seem like a troll? Do I appear to baiting that type of discussion?

I think I listed a decent starting point of comparison between the two products to help myself and others decide what features are likely to be important to workflow both now and in the future. I should add to the list

+ Multibridge has a blackburst and tri level sync generator built in.

and

+ Aja sells an SDI to DVI converter – so that feature can be added to Kona 3 althought probably not for viewing of 2K files.

So 1 more point for each in it’s catagory.

I know both products are good but I’m trying to dig a little deeper into each’s set of features and discuss which ones are likely to be real benefits or can be attained in other ways.

I’d also like to see a real analysis of how Kona’s built in processing power actually accelerates HDV, DVCproHD and RT extreme, and is it actually important with the advent of quad processor machines.

[Richard Dee]

I have used the Sony broadcast LCD NTSC monitors at a cable network I was editing for.

It basically looked like a bigger version of the canvas. In other words, useless for seeing what your image looks like.

Funny thing is on my 30″ cinema the contrastand color of canvas looks not too horribly off from the 20L5