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Thanks for the responses! We have only a 3-year old G4 1ghz PowerBook w/ 1GB RAM.

If I could get a more juiced laptop, what type of movie file at what aspect ratio could feed that projector’s “SXGA (1280 x 1024, Fit-to-View) wide format (16:9 aspect) capable” resolution?

If that particular resolution setup is somehow hinky, then what is the most reliable movie file format that will look better than DVD, and run reliably?

Bill

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We can’t wait indefinitely; maybe you can use the interim fix Kona support tested for us…

They said to capture in FCP4.5, which they tested with a Sony JH3 HDCAM like we’d been using. With FCP4.5 there was no sync issue, and they successfully brought those FCP4.5-loaded clips into FCP5.

Our wrinkle is, during days of capture attempts for more than 50 reels of 23.98 HDCAM, we created tons of logging data which now exists in an FCP5 project as offline clips (we deleted the bad sync media files to clear space). We didn’t know how to successfully export that data backwards into FCP4.5, but a posting on the Cow’s FCP forum got us an answer: select a bin in the FCP5 project, export as XML version 1, then import into FCP4.5.

So now we’re in the process of prepping an external 250GB FW HD as a Tiger startup drive so we can install FCP4.5 within the system that includes the Kona2 and ADTX RAID.

The next steps: export all those FCP5 bins of offline clips as XML v1, import them to the FCP4.5 setup, rent an HDCAM deck again, recapture all those clips into FCP4.5, start up on the original internal drive, launch FCP5 and bring in all the captured clips. Sure hope that works. And we’ll keep in mind that according to Murphy’s law, the Kona fix for FCP5 will be released the day after we’re all done.

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I exported as XML version 1 an FCP5 bin full of offline clips, then opened that XML file in another machine’s FCP4.5 and the bin appeared successfully in a browser. We cannot try and capture until we rent an HDCAM deck next week, but this sure looks like a good result.

Thanks for the info…

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Thanks for the batch list suggestion… here’s the result:

I exported a batch list from an FCP5 bin full of offline clips, but in another machine’s FCP4.5 it would not open or import; it said there was an error and could not read the file. Then I tried exporting an FCP5 batch list from a group of offline clips selected individually (not from a pre-existing bin) and that didn’t work either.

Please see the response from Mr. Adcock about exporting as XML version 1– this method did import successfully to FCP4.5 from FCP5, although we have not tried to capture yet.

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Referring to original post– G5 dual 2.5 Tiger 10.4.1, ADTX RAID, Kona2 with 1.1.2 driver. Since then, we upgraded to 10.4.2 OS. What other setup details…?
The latest development today is that AJA Kona support told me they are working on a fix; the problem is in the real-time downconvert to DVCProHD in FCP5. In the mean time, they suggested I use FCP 4.5 for my captures, then upgrade to FCP5 to edit. They tested this process and say it works. HDCAM deck rentals are expensive, so we can’t try it right now, but we will in a couple of weeks.

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The very night I noticed the problem I went to the Kona support area of the AJA web site and saw a sync issue described there along with its fix– so I downloaded and installed the 1.1.2 driver. After restarting several times and clearing the prefs from FCP5 the problem remained.

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Thanks… I will post in the Kona forum. FYI, Kona support says they are testing with a JH3 and will get back to me shortly.