[Tyler Dixon]

Yes. The deck was previously adjusted and I had been making many 23.98 tapes with no problem. When I spoke to AJA, he did point that out about the offset, yet, the QC errors reported do not have a continual offset problem. For instance, the color bars i set to go out from 00:58:30:00 – 00:59:30:00 actually cut out at 00:59:29:24. The picture which was set to start at the hour, started at 00:59:59:25 so it’s not a continual offset that’s taking place I don’t think.

[Tyler Dixon]

Thanks guys. This is clearing up most of my understanding. For that problem I listed with the SD setting, I thought I had to change the dip switch to match what I wanted to bring to tape, I didn’t realize it had to correspond to my HD sequence in FCP because I was doing a real time down convert. I will try switching that back and see what transpires.

Just to make sure I understand what you pointed out;
Carsten, you said signal flow is from Gen 10 to everything else. On the Kona 3 breakout box, unlike the decks, I don’t have anything that literally says “Ref In”. Instead it says at the bottom, “Ref Loop.” So does this mean, I don’t need to send anything to the Kona box? Could I only send a signal from the Gen 10 to the deck?

[Tyler Dixon]

So, let’s use an example.
I’m making a HDCAM on the SRW-5500
Should I be sending:
1 bnc from the Ref Loop top 1st slot of the Kona 3 to the Gen 10 output and
1 bnc from the Gen 10 to the Ref In on the deck

or should I be doing this differently?

Also, I recently tried doing that same setup for a dvcam deck and selecting SD on the Gen 10, and under the AJA control Panel, –Control–Playback Timing–I selected Ref In and the 525 setting appeared in green color, yet when I went back to Final Cut to play the sequence, it would not allow me to. I had to resort back to Freerun under that Control Panel setting in order to be able to play my timeline and for it to the the real time down convert to the deck from 1080psf. But this is an entirely different scenario from what I listed above.

[Tyler Dixon]

just tried a clip from another movie that is 10 bit uncompressed and it works fine. The problem I am having is with a clip I just captured from HDCAM SR at 444 thru the Kona 3

[Tyler Dixon]

Hello David,

I couldn’t find the snake, but re plugging all the small BNCs on the card fixed it.

Gary

[Tyler Dixon]

Thanx Guys,
I unplugged all the small BNCs on the Mac AJA card and plugged them back in and now it works. I appreciate the help.

Best regards,
Gary

[Tyler Dixon]

I can’t find a snake cable for it. The connections appear fine and solid.

[Tyler Dixon]

BTW, this is Gary. I am now in Tylers room on the Mac which is the room where I have the problem on the AJA

Gary

[Tyler Dixon]

Shows no video. HDcam SDI out into Kona SDI #2 works and shows video 1080sf23.98

Switch cable to Kona SDI #1 input and the aja control panel does not see it and says no video.

[Tyler Dixon]

Do you have the original footage that you can access? I’m working with RED footage and what I’m doing is taking the medium Quicktime proxy (1024×512) and moving it into a custom droplet I made in Compressor that is 720×360 (to keep the 2:1 ratio that the RED shoots in.) These are encoded in H.264, though. It seems odd that your video looked bad at 6.2 mbps; I made one of my videos with around 3mbps and it looked fine (at 720×386).

Admittedly, I haven’t tried to make a dvd of the footage yet. (Just posted mine to the web.)