[Winston A. cely]

Thank you for the suggestion, but I had tried that as well. My front firewire port is d*mn near useless, but my back firewire port is still good. I’ve connected a deck via firewire to the back port and it’s worked properly, but the AJA still acts up if it’s plugged into it. I believe it is time to call AJA. Thanks again to everyone!

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[Winston A. cely]

My firmware is the most current (24-28)

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[Winston A. cely]

Thanks Tony and Jeremy!

I did suggestions, 2, 4 and 5, and I’ll try the rest tonight. Fortunately, we have another system that uses the AJA Kona LS so I was able to make my dubs/masters off of that one for now. I’ll keep you posted.

Thanks again!

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[Winston A. cely]

We’ve set up a system where we have 3 edit bays. Edit1 has a SATA RAID with 2 drive bays, Edit2 has a 4 tray SATA RAID setup and Edit3/Graphics suite is without. The 3 edit suites are connected via a “private” ethernet line. This allows each edit bay to connect to the RAID that has the footage they need. This has worked flawlessly with SD footage. I’ve had a few spots come through that we DVCPRO HD (720p) that worked fine over the ethernet as well. The only trouble I’ve had with this system is that capturing is out of the question. It works OK if you’re just getting one clip, but every time I tried to capture more than one clip (say from a batch capture) I’d get dropped frames. The other problem, is that you can’t have both be editing to the same project. Each person must have they’re own project on they’re own drive. As far as using the same footage in different projects, that’s worked well so far, but we usually don’t have a need for that. In normal operation, each suite is working on a different project. This was the cheapest solution for us; all we needed (other than the drives) was an ethernet hub that the edit suites share. The hub is not connected to anyone else, and not connected to the net. (That’s why we called it private). We aren’t doing enough HD to justify the cost of the XSAN/XRAID/XSERVE yet, so we came up with this solution.

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[Winston A. cely]

You’re looking for more of a television look than a film look? Like when you watch old Beatles footage and a guitar catches the light just right and instead of being bright white, it actually goes black, right? That’s a tough one….

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[Winston A. cely]

I see what you mean! So it’s LCD for clients CRT for me…. Now the trick’s finding two monitors for the price of one! lol

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[Winston A. cely]

Shoot, now I have a question…. As far as I know, most people with HD TV’s don’t have CRT HD TVs. So If I’m color correcting on a CRT, how do I know they’re going to get the colors I want them to get?

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[Winston A. cely]

Wow, thanks for the quick response! So for color correction we’re still stuck with CRT? Darn…. Well, I guess it’s CRT then. Thanks!

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[Winston A. cely]

When capturing HD we use a AJ-HD1200A, is that the one you’re talking about? That would be great to be able to capture a center punch. When we shot our footage we always kept in mind that we might like to go 4:3, so I haven’t had to adjust any framing with the clips. They’re all centered directly, so if I recaptured, I could theoretically re-link the footage to the cutouts because the TC would be identical.

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[Winston A. cely]

We’ve got a Kona LS and an Aja Io. So when you’re laying off a DVCAM copy, are you making an anamorphic DVCAM, or are you choppin goff the sides? I’d think you’d be giving it anamorphic, or widescreen treatment, since you’re ultimately going to HD which is widescreen.

Side question…. Since a lot of people don’t have HD TV’s yet, when Good Eat’s is broadcast, are they sending out 2 separate signals? One that carries HD and one that carries SD? The SD shrinking the 16:9 footage to a letterboxed 4:3?

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