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AJA stated at NAB that when CS3 launches for OS X, a Kona card will ultimately be supported. You can go with an LHe or a Kona3 and be good to go.

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-Mike

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Anyone happen to catch the footnote about AVCHD being able to be captured now?

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You need to get a Y/C to S-Video adapter. One side has two BNC plugs, the other is the S-Video plug. You then set your analog output to Composite + Y/C and the far right two analog ports become your Y/C output.

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-Mike

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It is important to note that you’ll be able capture using firewire, but AJA offers some unique options to you for output. Is frame accurate or color accurate monitoring important to you? Because you can’t do it over firewire.

Both the Kona LH and Kona 3 actually have a hardware scaler built into the cards, so they offload the processing power needed to decompress and playback scaled formats (like DVCProHD) from the processor and allowing for more streams, effects, transitions, etc. This is unique to AJA’s line of cards.

This is also very important if you ever try to ingest and transcode footage that didn’t originate on DVCProHD hardware to DVCProHD (ie upconverting Beta footage or transcoding an HDV camera).

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[JKLPost.com] “I am trying to capture 4:3 and 16:9 material for use in the same sequence. Is that possible in FCP5 and with the LH card? I have worked in the firewire world and trying to get adjusted to the BIG DOG world. Please share your workflow, it would greatly help!
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A little more info is needed.

1) Is this anamorphic SD or HD 16:9?
2) What is desired editing base (525, 720, 1080)?

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A couple of ways you can do this

1) Multiport card
2) Switch zoning

I’m not going to go into the nuts and bolts/bells and whistles as to which one works well and which doesn’t because EVERY san system is going to play a little differently further down the road.

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Have you gone into System Settings -> Playback Control and set the offset to zero?

Default is 4. It should be 0 while using AJA hardware.

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How are your cards set up? I’ve seen this, but only when the bus is choked and only out of Premiere. I’ve never had a problem in Machina with a realtime downconvert.

The easy fix was to make sure my LH was in the 133Mhz slot and my storage was on the PCIe slot and that there wasn’t anything else in the bus.

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The ioHD WILL likely allow you to use a G5 for ProRes. The tipping point is for realtime capture which is far more processor intensive than playback. The idea is that the Kona cards are going to be limited to MacPros and newer for ProRes422 ingest, but the ioHD will bring ProRes to legacy systems.

So for all intents and purposes, you have it right, the ioHD will be the ONLY device that will enable legacy hardware to work with ProRes422 on output as well as ingest.

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What are you basing the shift on? Actual scopes or just the look on the monitors? PC standard gamma is 2.2, Mac standard gamma is 1.8, so depending on how your monitors are set up, things will look different.

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-Mike