Tip Mcpartland
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Music to my ears. Thank you so much for the good news.
Anyone who’s interested in buying this camera contact me off list and I’ll “reveal the deal” I’ve put together for a great package price.
Tip McPartland
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Thanks very much for your response to my post. Can you recall the resolution of the footage? Was it HD?
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How do you do that?
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Long shot, but I just fixed a similar problem by refreshing the “plugin file” or something similar. You can get the direct information by going to the Adobe website, going to the Premiere Pro section, and searching for digital video troubleshooting.
But you really don’t need to. You just hold down the shift key while you open the application. This may have worked so well for me because I edit in Cineform Aspect, but maybe you do too.
This made a lot of difference as I was having some strange stuff going on, halting video, freezes and really weird stuff when I applied transitions.
Tip
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Thanks, Kevin, Andrew and Uncompressed,
But no thanks to that anonymous person at Aja sales who first basically dissed my question, then didn’t answer my rejoinder.
Anyway, from what the three of you’ve shown, my guess is that Adobe has tried to provide SDI I/O at the best prossible price point. Okay, I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt.
But with the LH, I could have captured uncompressed analog component into my computer from my HD100 when shooting (green) in my studio. With the HS, I would have to buy an outboard A/D converter. If it ain’t one thing….
Tip
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Let me rephrase my question. What are the capabilities that the Kona 3 offers that are not part of the Xena feature set?
Of course I know that Kona is for Mac and Xena is for PC. I can barely resist saying “Duh!” to this snide, condescending and dodgy non-answer, but I’ll try.
Your statment that there is no equivalent to the Kona 3 in the Xena line-up comes a little closer to answering my question as it indicates that there are indeed some difference in capabilities, but I guess you’re protecting the value proposition of the current Xena line-up by not telling us what they are.
Could you please enumerate these differentiating capabilities that might be considered “third generation?”
And does your roadmap for Xena include a future product that includes these third generation features?
Tip McPartland
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How does the Xena LH stack up against the Kona 3? And, does the Xena do anything besides capture, such as provide additional real-time capabilities?
Tip
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Sam,
I just had to shoot a computer monitors for inserts in a PBS documentary.
For starters I used 5600K (in may case really 5200K) lights to make everything else more blue to lessen the difference. If you only have tungsten lights, use CTB gels. Then I went into the menu on the monitor and tried the color temp choices to further close the color gap.
A note on color temp momenclature here — HIGHER color temps yield a bluer picture, which everyone “wrongly” calls COOLER. Conversly, LOWER color temps yield a more orange picture which everyone “wrongly” calls WARMER. Simply put, color temp is very counter-intuitive, and the “incorrect” usages are so endemic that they are “correct.”
Anyway, you probably want the numerically lowest color temp (xxxxK) the monitor has, perhaps 3200K. If that hasn’t removed enough blue, there may be a “user” or custom color temp setting that will allow you to change each color separately. If so, dial down blue, bring up the red, tweak the green, etc. In short, make it look right TO THE CAMERA which will not necessarily look right to your eye. You might find it useful to display white on the screen while you do this.
Tip McPartland
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Steven,
Thanks, but I don’t think my crummy video card supports one of the steps. When I get to the Overlay tab there is no clone mode option. It lets me go sraight to the box to select theater mode. The aspect ratio stuff is there. Finally I can’t find where to select Primary and Feature monitors. In my “big” editing system which has a Parhelion it is very easy. This probably hard primarily because it’s impossible! Thanks again for giving it the old school, or is that the old forum, try!
Tip
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Steven,
Thank you so much for taking the time to post this. I am at work in LA so I can’t try this until tomorrow night. I’ll let you know if this does it, but whether or not it does, my gratitude will be the same!
Tip