Tony Manolikakis
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Thanks for the reply. I DO think the Kona2 is an interesting product. I would be interested to hear other users experience with dual link HDCAM SR specifically. Thanks.
Tony Manolikakis
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Les
Up until two months ago I was the Senior Product Manager at Matrox, Axio was my product, I helped develop it from an idea on paper to a shipping solution. I have also been an editor and director for the better part of the last 10 years. I cut my short film on edit. Have worked on music video, DVDs etc. I recently left Matrox to focus exclusively on a new post production and production business, although I still do some demoing for them. Our main editing system is Final Cut Pro. I really disliked FCP until I saw version 4, to me it became really useable at that point. We are in the process of evaluating systems for online HD work. Axio is clearly the front runner, though the likelihood is that we get both a Kona 2 and an Axio. So I think I am in a pretty strong position to discuss this. Axio does everything they say it does on the brochure. Everything. An it will do even more moving forward. I have never lied on any brochure that was ever created for one of my products. There are many people in the industry who consider Matrox support to be outstanding. This has not always been true when the Matrox hardware was used with 3rd party software that did not use Matrox developed plugins. Axio does way more in realtime than Kona does. This is fundamentally because Matrox is able to not only accelerate Premiere Pro, but take over playback completely so that it is the Matrox engine that does the playback. Apple does not promote this type of environment. They prefer the simple I/O model. Axio is not appropriate for all users and of course if you do not like the editing application there is not much of a point to go any further. If this discussion is not appropriate for this forum, you can email me directly to discuss it further.
I have a question for the Kona 2 guys. What can you actually do with dual link and Kona2 today. I think I saw a demo of 444 capture at NAB but does that work at all inside FCP now? If this has already been addressed please point me to the info. Thanks.
Tony Manolikakis
Rev13 Films