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If you are planning for a digital-deck input (SDI), Kona2 is ideal. Kona2 will D-con to SD thru an analog monitor output as well. As a Mac/Adrenaline user who needed Hi-Def-ability before Avid was ready to supply it, I opted for the Kona2 as my offline solution to down convert HD to SD(DV-NTSC) to offline my HD jobs. I Dwn-Con HD-SDI to SD-SDI on the way into my Mac Adrenaline, then after editing a sequence in AXP or MC, I use AutoDuck to export an OMF of the final seq to FCPHD for conform & output in uncompressed HDCam. This workaround costs 25% of the cost of an Avid HD expansion board that doesn’t exist yet. Is Avid listening? I want an Avid solution, but it doesn’t exist in my world. The “drive off the Mac User” plan is working! TS