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What you need is an ADA4 for output since the Kona3’s XLR cables are all AES. Coupled with the component out on the board it will give you a way to lay off analog signals.

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-Mike

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Things you can’t do without it with an HVX200:

Color accurately monitor
Frame accurately monitor
Layoff to base band source (regardless of type, SD, 720/1080 HD)
Live direct to disk encode from camera glass to ProRes422
Embed LTC time code in DtD capture for multi-cam
Signal A<->D and frame size conversions separate from FCP

Depending on your needs, it may not be the right device for you…but it opens up a whole lot of possibilities for professional acquisition and output.

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I’m betting the “dim” lights are actually just feeding from their neighbors and aren’t on.

One light means that the card has power and is recognized in the bus. Two lights means the OS has picked it up and loaded the driver.

If only one light is bright, there is a problem with the driver. Try a clean install.

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Decklink cards DO NOT have hardware scalars. If you ever plan on ingesting signal to DVCProHD, you will experience lossiness. In addition, the lack of hardware scalar and tie in to RTExtreme means that a Decklink card is not doing any math scaling out your images for output or monitoring. This literally equates to less real time using DVCProHD (even if you captured using a P2 card).

AJA’s cards all have hardware scalars on the card. This frees up processor time by handling all scaling of non full raster codecs (HDV, DVCProHD, XDCAM). You can argue that you don’t need the real time performance on output, but I would think that when doing a capture/transcode to DVCProHD, the quality of your ingest would matter.

There are more reasons, but I would think if DVCProHD workflows are important to you, this would be a big sticking point.

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-Mike

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How many green lights is the right question to ask. 1 or 2 with the machine running?

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You have to use crash capture or do device control via firewire.

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FCP 6.0 clean or upgrade install?

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How full is it? Those things tank at higher capacity or in heavy fragmentation.

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What is your source?

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I believe 10.4.10 did this if you have an Intel Mac. I had a similar problem, installed Apple’s 10.4.10 audio update this morning and sound has returned. YMMV.

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