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I am working on a FCP5 system with a Kona 3 card installed. The company has used this card for some time with great success for SD projects. They are making the tranfer to HD projects. They are shooting HDCAM. I have been able to get the video signal from the deck to FCP - but have not been able to get audio to FCP.
I hooked up the deck SDI. This is how the video signal is coming in. But no audio. They have the speaker routed through a mixer connected to the card. One I plugged in the the Kona AES cables I was able to get audio to the speakers but no audio signal to FCP!
Any ideas?!! Has anyone had this problem or heard of any type of solutions? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance
Ken
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Kona recommends using a Fibre Channel or SCSI external RAID for uncompressed HD, but the price for both of those is high. The eSata works and is much more cost effective. The best reason to go Fibre would be if you were using multiple editing stations at one location and wanted each to share the same storage thru a Fibre network.
As far as drive performance, in the eSata world, 8 striped 250 or 500s at 7200 RPM is the lowest recommended. 6 striped may work for 8 bit, but I have never tried.
I found this list:
Storage and data rates for uncompressed video are listed below.
525 NTSC uncompressed;
8 bit @ 720 x 486 @ 29.97fps = 20 MB per/sec, or 70 GB per/hr.
10 bit @ 720 x 486 @ 29.97fps = 27 MB per/sec, or 94 GB per/hr.
625 PAL uncompressed;
8 bit @ 720 x 576 @ 25fps = 20 MB per/sec, or 70 GB per/hr.
10 bit @ 720 x 576 @ 25fps = 26 MB per/sec, or 93 GB per/hr.
720p HDTV uncompressed;
8 bit @ 1280 x 720 @ 59.94field = 105 MB per/sec, or 370 GB per/hr.
10 bit @ 1280 x 720 @ 59.94field = 140 MB per/sec, or 494 GB per/hr.
1080i and 1080p HDTV uncompressed;
8 bit @ 1920 x 1080 @ 24fps = 95 MB per/sec, or 334 GB per/hr.
10 bit @ 1920 x 1080 @ 24fps = 127 MB per/sec, or 445 GB per/hr.
8 bit @ 1920 x 1080 @ 25fps = 99 MB per/sec, or 348 GB per/hr.
10 bit @ 1920 x 1080 @ 25fps = 132 MB per/sec, or 463 GB per/hr.
8 bit @ 1920 x 1080 @ 29.97fps = 119 MB per/sec, or 417 GB per/hr.
10 bit @ 1920 x 1080 @ 29.97fps = 158 MB per/sec, or 556 GB per/hr.
1080i and 1080p HDTV RGB (4:4:4) uncompressed;
10 bit @ 1280 x 720p @ 60fps = 211 per/sec, or 742 GB per/hr.
10 bit @ 1920 x 1080 @ 24PsF = 190 per/sec, or 667 GB per/hr.
10 bit @ 1920 x 1080 @ 50i = 198 per/sec, or 695 GB per/hr.
10 bit @ 1920 x 1080 @ 60i = 237 per/sec, or 834 GB per/hr.
We are in CA and work with www.Promax.com for our equipment and drives.
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