Szumlins
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Go into the control tab in the Kona Control panel and change your output to color bars or hold last application. I believe you have your output set to Mac Desktop currently.
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You’ll only need a single FW800 card for the external HD. The internal bus will handle the Io.
There is no reason why it won’t capture the same quality video as a brand new 8-Core MacPro. The MPEG2 encodes are going to be considerably slower, but capturing uncompressed SD is going to give you the same quality regardless of the machine you choose.
The only problem I see with the setup is that it is technically less than the minimum required spec (which calls for a Dual 800 G4).
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When was the last time you wiped that second internal drive? A little fragmentation in a single drive setup goes a long way towards dropped frames on capture.
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With FCP closed, launch the control panel and set your primary format to 625i25. This should keep your settings when you hop from app to app.
The Kona Control panel gets taken over by the app that has focus, so FCP will work based on the settings within the app (same effect for VTR XCHANGE and Kona TV, or any other app capable of using the Kona).
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[JeremyG] “And then use squeeze for the h264 compression.”
If there is money to be spent, the Squeeze XCEL HD card with GREATLY speed up the H.264 encode. Right now it is a PC only option, but it will definitely cut some clock cycles out of the encode.
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Yup, the Io LA and Io support 4 channel analog audio.
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I guess I should have prefaced mine with “you kinda half can, but I wouldn’t…and why?”
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Technically, yes, you can…but all you are doing is creating a larger file. Depending on your frame rate, you may have some bigger issues too trying to mix.
Use VTR Exchange and set up your source as whatever you are capturing as (frame rate/frame size) 10-bit. Set your compression to AJA Kona 10-bit LOG RGB Codec. This will allow you to capture single link in a LOG RGB codec. Mixing this footage in the timeline in FCP with 2K or 1080p footage is a different story since FCP needs framerate, framesize, and codec to match. If you have all three, voila, no rendering.
Hope that helps.
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Per the Io Manual on page 5:
Note:
FireWire drive solutions are not supported in use with AJA Io. Since Io
connects to the host Power Mac via FireWire and uses the FireWire bus bandwidth
extensively, it cannot also be used for storage