Capturing 1080P 60fps Aja Kona 3G speeding video up

First time posting... hopefully it can be solved because I am at wits end.
I am looking to capture 1080P60 off of an iPhone through HDMI using and HD-SDI converter with the Aja Kona 3G card (it saves it as an MOV format in Premiere). The capture portion in Premiere works great until it hits 12 GB of RAM and then the video speeds up disproportionally until the end of the capture/offload to HDD. This usually happens about 30-40 seconds in. I know this is an extremely hot signal coming off but that is what I need. I know it’s not a RAM or system issue because it is a blazing machine with plenty of RAM and HDD space using RAID0. When I try to capture 720P video it records the video fine until around 18 GB of RAM and then does the same thing. Is there some limitation to the format I am using or capture or is it something I am doing wrong? The card doesn’t have many settings to change an input signal in Premiere so to me options are limited…
System:
Intel I7-3.20 GHz
10TB RAID0
64GB RAM
Aja Kona 3G capture card

I have never seen an issue like this. The best thing I can suggest is to get in contact with AJA tech support. They are very knowledgeable and helpful with issues like this. Good luck.

Similar Messages

Aja Kona LHI external video issues

I have Afters Effects CS5.5 and a Kona LHI, and I am unable to turn off or change the settings of my external video preview. It is always outputting 1080i. This started when I upgraded to CS5.5 and Mac Lion OS. I have the same hardware as when I had CS4 and Leopard and never had this issue. Final Cut Pro is outputting fine and I have verified my AJA Kona setting are correct. Any help would be appriciated.

After hearing from AJA I reinstalled the KNOA drivers and now Final Cut Pro or Premiere will not output through the KONA LH at all while AE is open. When AE is closed everything else works fine. This is the error message I received from Final Cut Pro 7.
"Unable to open the specified Video Output device.
It may be in use by another application, incorrectly connected or may be conflicting with a sound device."

Finalcut pro / quicktime / AJA Kona

why does my FPS in quicktime doesn,t match with the FPS(frame per second) in FCP
(Ex: 29,97 gives in QT 29,88 or 29,83 etc)
I'm capturing with a AJA Kona 3 (it does the same thing with a blackmagic)
With the AJA Kona capturing software it works fine and gives me the good FPS in quicktime but not in FCP
help me out please

what you are seeing is not a dynamic diagnostic of the file, it is a metadata tag within the file. It's possible the tag was incorrectly interpreted by FCP. When you open the file in QT and choose Window/Show Movie Inspector, does it show the correct FPS?

AJA KONA 3 Video capture system

Does anyone here work on a G5 Mac Pro using the Aja Kona 3 card and Premiere Pro?
I am a long-time Matrox user. I currently have four RT.X2 workstations that I enjoy great success with. I recently won a Aja Kona 3 card, so I'm considering investing in the Mac to use it. I read somewhere that it now works with PPro, but I wanted to check to see if anyone here is doing that.

I have tried put the Kona 3 card in slot 3,
it make the OS acting slow, and final cut wouldn't load and
said that the system doesn't have valid RT card.
So I put it back in slot 2.
I have contact AJA technical support last week, but as I'm in Asia pacific,
it's not possible to call, so I email them, they replied me with one suggestion
at a time. But still not solving anything yet.

AJA Kona LHi to capture analog vid for hobbyist. Recommended?

I am a FCP amature / hobbiest and looking for a convienent way to capture analog (s-video, composite, component) video to my MAC-Pro and FCP.
I am looking for a good mixture of "good" and "cheap" (it's all relative I know... just generally speaking).
I am thinking about the AJA Kona LHi. Any thoughts? Remember... this is only a hobby for me.. no broadcast. Other than the Kona LH(i,e,s) products.. what do you suggest? I don't care if it's a card or a box.
Your advice is greally appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
-Jdove

The ADVC 300 is more like $400.
Another option is the Matrox MXO2 mini.
For straight DV/ Standard def capture the ADVC 300 does a better job.
However, the Matrox box also gives you the ability to send an HD signal to an external monitor - which the ADVC300 will not do.
x

Audio video synchronisation problem with Aja Kona Lse

Hi,
We have recently bought an Aja Kona Lse card and using it with FCP 6.0.2. At the time of playing back we found that video on external monitor(taken out from *composite out* of aja kona breakout box)lags behind the external speaker audio(taken out from *balanced audio out* of aja kona breakout box) atleast by 2-3 seconds,though the same audio is in sync with FCP canvas video.
Please help,
Thanking you in advance

Are you sure about the source of the audio? Have you double checked the internal routing within FCP?
What you describe is exactly what happens when the audio is bypassing the external device and going through the Macs system audio. If going through the system audio, it will stay in sync with the Canvas. If going through the card, it should be in sync with the monitor being fed by the same card.
Good luck,
x

Premiere Pro CC, Project / sequence settings help with GoPro 1080p / 60fps

Hi all,
I have just started using Premiere Pro CC with the GoPro Hero3+ black edition, but my video's, once exported do not look very smooth and clean like HD video should?
The video settings on the GoPro are 1080p / 60fps, narrow view (protune off), I then import these .MP4 video files into PP CC and use these sequence settings:
29.97fps
1920 x 1080 / 16:9
Square pixels (1.0)
No fields (progressive scan)
30 fps drop-frame timecode
Preview file format: I-Frame only MPEG
Maximum bit depth
So, my question is, should my sequence settings be at 60fps to match the 60fps I used to capture the video with? How should I edit 1080p / 60fps video in order to get nice clean, smooth HD video playback on youtube?
My export settings are:
H.264
1920 x 1080
29.94
Progressive
Square pixels (1.0)
NTSC
Profile: Main
Level: 5.1
Render at maximum depth
VBR, 2 pass
Target Mbps: 40
Max Mbps: 50
Keyframe distance box checked and says: 90
Use maximum render quality
Here is the video I uploaded to youtube: Deal Tri Summer Duathlon May 2014 - YouTube
What do you think?
Any help would be very much appreciated!
Kind regards,
Paul

No problem. When you click sequence > sequence settings, what does your editing mode say? I use AVCHD 1080p square pixel. You can change this to 'custom' which will give you more control over the settings if you need to, but if you use the method I described earlier then you shouldn't need to change anything. Maybe if some of your videos are 2.7k or 4k resolution mixed with 1080p videos then you could play with the settings.
Just remember that if you start a new project and have for example, four videos shot at 1080p and one at 4k, if you drag and drop the 4k video to the 'new item' bin then your sequence will match the 4k resolution settings and when you drag the other 1080p videos on the sequence time line, they will not fill the screen and would need to be 'scaled' in to fit the screen, thus making them look terrible. The best way would be to drag n drop the 1080p video(s) and then include the 4k video on the timeline and just 'scale' / 'crop' it to fit the screen.
All the best!
Paul

AJA Kona Support in Premiere CS5.5

I'm new to Premiere, and I've encountered some unexpectedly poor performance that I'm currently attributing to my AJA Kona 3, but I'm wondering what I can do about it. I downloaded a trial of CS5.5 and installed the latest AJA drivers (9.0.3) and Adobe plug-ins (9.0.1). Here's my system configuration:
Mac Pro 4,1
2 Xeon 2.93 Ghz
16 GB RAM (10 GB allocated to PP/AE/AME)
OSX 10.6.5
AJA Kona 3
No CUDA-enable GPU
External RAID storage array w/ fiber interface
I'm working with a mix of source materials - XDCAM EX footage, ProRes 422 or Animation graphic renders, DVCPro HD or Uncompressed captures - all at 1080/59.94i
For starters, sometimes I have clips that shouldn't have to render that begin stuttering or failing to play, but after I stop and attempt to play that portion again, it works fine. This becomes very problematic during Export to Tape operations, when it can play through most of a sequence then hang up at the end. It seems most prone to this when switching between video codecs in the same sequence where they are not marked with any render-indicating color. I assume this means the Kona is handling those clips and should be able to play them without any problems. Is there some configuration issue I should look at that will address this? Maybe RAM allocation?
Secondly, I can't figure out how to output timecode via the 9-pin RS-422. It seems that Premiere is not sending any timecode information to the Kona, because when I enable timecode overlay from the AJA Control Panel, it doesn't show anything. If I open a Quicktime file using AJA TV, the timecode will display as expected. Is there a configuration option within Premiere that I'm overlooking? Not offering TC output seems like it would be a major oversight, so I'm assuming this is something I simply can't figure out.
Third, I'm experiencing an odd issue when scrubbing the sequence to find edit points in the audio. When I scrub frame-by-frame, it seems that the audio being played is always from the frame I just scrubbed FROM, not the frame I scrubbed TO (i.e., the current frame). This is not intuitive, and also not how Premiere works in non-AJA sequence presets. I'm assuming that this is just an AJA bug, but wanted to mention it in case I'm overlooking something.
I know this is a lot for one thread, but I appreciate the community's time, expertise, and help. I really am excited about working with Premiere instead of FCP, but these issues can be frustrating.
Thanks,
Josh

Post this message at the link below. You will target your quiry to some folks that should be able to help you. Have you called tech support at AJA? If you are serious about resolving this issue that would be a good thing to do as well.
http://forums.creativecow.net/ajakona

Presets for Pana TM700K 1080P 60FPS

Does anyone know for PP CS5 what are the best presets or how to customize to the best preset? The input is AVCHD @ 1080P 60FPS. None of the existing presets seem right. But I'm new so maybe I missed it.

Hello,
Can you please tell me the details for working with Adobe Premier Pro CS 5 if the video was captured on HG mode?
I know it is 1920X1080 but it does not explain if this progressive or interlaced.
Thanks,
Esteban

Aja Kona Card (Migrating from G5 to Mac Pro Dual-Core)

I own a small video production company.
I am migrating from an old G5 to a Mac Pro Dual Core given to me. The Aja Kona card doesn't fit into the Mac Pro Dual-Core, as the card slots are different.
Any way to adapt the G5 compatible card to the Mac Pro slots? I would only use for importing older analog media, as the newer HD stuff we shoot is brought in electronically.
Thanks for any help you can offer.
DW

Thanks, Grant.
I gave the G5 to my kids, so I'll probably just keep the Kona card/bundle in there until needed, hook up the appropriate VCR/VTR, and then dump the captured footage onto a HD to bring onto the Mac Pro. Too bad there isn't some internal/external adapter solution...

Will an AJA Kona enable me to edit growing files?

I have a need to record lengthy internet video streams and clip sections out for use in news broadcasts. Timing is of the essence so If I were to take a full-screen feed of the stream and feed it into the HDMI in of an AJA Kona would I then be able to import the file while it's still recording to edit in a PC based Premiere system? I'm aware that Premiere can import growing files but I'm scratching my head working out which capture card will give me a file I can use.

http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/intensity/
Use the Motion Jpeg and you will be fine. The Intensity Pro is the most commonly used card for this. You can also use screen capturing software such as Fraps but you have to be careful what codecs and resolutions you choose.
Eric
ADK

Cannot change compound clip settings from 1080P 60fps to 1080i 25fps

Hi. I created a compound clip, which for some reason ended up with settings of 1080P 60fps (probably because I added a music track first before any video and just used the automatic settings). After editing a whole sequence and exporting a master file, I realized the settings had been wrong. All my footage is 1080i 25fps.
Only thing is when I tried to change the compound clip settings, I only had other progressive options available. I could not change it to 1080i.
I had to create a brand new Compound Clip with 1080i 25 and paste the clips from the original CC into the new CC. Only thing was a music track was now out of sync with the video (presumably because the fps value in the original CC did not match the footage). I had to retime the audio track to around 99% speed to fit to the video clips again!
Why could I not change the CC settings directly?
Thanks

The compound clip is acting like a project. You can never change the timebase of project once there's media in it. You should copy and paste into a new compound clip if you can.

Motion playback on production monitor through AJA Kona LH card looks nasty.

Okay, so here's the deal.
We have recently invested in some shiny new things to equip an edit suite - a Kona LH card and a Production Monitor. Along with a Sony HDV/DVCAM VTR. Specs of our set up are listed at the bottom.
Pretty much all of the work we have done in the past has been non-braodcast - we're looking to improve workflow and quality of final output. We work mainly with Final Cut Pro, but also with Motion.
We have connected everything and have marvelled at how much of a difference it makes having a proper video preview from Final Cut (v. 6) as opposed to what we had before - firewire to camera to TV... Of course we were expecting this marked improvement.
We were also expecting the key benefit of a video preview output from Motion.
Now. We do get a video output through to the production monitor from Motion. But this is where it gets weird.
When we do a preview of an animation, it looks really shoddy.
As a test case, let's take a basic text crawl in Motion 3.
Static graphics look great, but when you play motion graphics, the image quality is really jaggy and nasty. (even at full frame RAM preview, best render settings, full res - all of these options are apparently properly selected).
So we did some test exports. Usually we would export animations in the Animation Codec, with an alpha if intended for compositing on top of a video track in FCP... we tried a bunch of different formats - animation, photoJpeg, DVCPRO 50, Aja 2Vuy, Uncompressed 10bit...
All these play from Quicktime on the computer monitor just fine, but when playing from the AJA TV app to the production monitor, again the same problem. And then when you bring them into Final Cut, the same problem, even when you match the sequence settings and field order to the source video ...
In effect, it seems that anything generated in Motion just doesn't want to look nice on our Production Monitor - even when imported into FCP.
HOWEVER - if you drop the Motion PROJECT into an FCP timeline, all is fine!
We know the AJA card and the Monitor are working because of this fact, and because when you generate titles from within FCP itself - the same text scroll, for instance, it looks perfect!
I have also found when working with old composited animations originating from AE that you can get FCP to pump these through to the production monitor beautifully when working in an uncompressed sequence setting - or in an Animation sequence setting. (For an Animation sequence to go the the production monitor from FCP, the Video Playback option in A/V Settings needs to be set to "AJA Kona 625i25 RGBA" instead of "AJA Kona 625i25 8 bit" or 10 bit).
The above point could be of relevance...? The only Video Output options from Motion or AE that apply to our setup and monitor are "625i25 RGBA" and "625i25 DV-RGBA" ... are we supposed to have more options?
In short, we could work around these issues - it just doesn't seem right however that we can't get a decent external preview from Motion. A big reason for upgrading our setup was faithful video previews of animations from these programs...
We also can't understand why exports from these animation programs can look so poor. I can export a video with a text crawl generated from a DV PAL Final Cut Project with DV Pal compression settings and it looks massively better playing through AJA TV than our test Motion exports.
It just isn't right.
Please help. Pretty please.
For reference, here are the specs of our set up:
Apple Dual 2.5 GHz PowerPC G5
4.5 GB DDR SDRAM
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon 9800 XT
Equipped with Kona LH Card
JVC TM-H1750CG Production Monitor fed via SDI (have also tried component, to no avail)
It just isn't right.
Please help. Pretty please. Many thanks in advance.
For reference, here are the specs of our set up:
Apple Dual 2.5 GHz PowerPC G5
4.5 GB DDR SDRAM
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon 9800 XT
Equipped with Kona LH Card (version 5)
2 x 23" Apple Cinema Displays
JVC TM-H1750CG Production Monitor fed via SDI (have also tried component, to no avail)

Sounds like you are seeing interlace artifacts - in Motion's project properties, have you tried setting the field dominance to None?

Advice on buying camera for stills and high speed video

Hello video pros,
I'm a music composer who occasionally dallies with some simple photographic and video work. I'm looking for some advice re picking up a camera to make some simple videos, but with the highest quality I can get with consumer grade gear.
I am pretty much ruling out consumer grade camcorders for two reasons: One is that I want to be able to shoot high quality stills and make stop motion videos from very high res stills. The other is that I don't need audio recording at all because the video will always be just to accompany music - simple music videos basically. So I'm much more interested in the recent mid range point-and-shoot bridge cameras with full HD video modes rather than camcorders - they seem to cover more realistically the range of things I want to do.
My main question is regarding shooting at higher frame rates than 30 fps. I'd like to shoot video at a minimum of 60 fps (or higher) to then playback at 25 fps to get that smooth, slightly dreamy motion effect. There are a few cameras out there that offer high speed video modes, but most are nothing more than a gimmick because the res is so low that the resulting video is unusable. However a few cameras now seem to hit a sweet spot, offering 60 fps recording at HD res, and also 120 fps at 640x480 which (at a pinch) is usable, at least for stuff destined for simple web use.
The cameras I've narrowed it down to so far seem to be the Nikon Coolpix P500, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ40 and possibly the Fujifilm HS20 EXR. I also was vaguely interested in the Casio Exilim HS cameras, but they seem to only offer high speed video modes that are pointless - 1000 fps at a completely useless low res, and 120 fps only at 640x480. The others I listed seem to offer at least 60 fps at some kind of HD res, so I'm assuming that with these cameras I could shoot decent looking video which would then play back with that slightly hyper real slow-mo effect when I import into FCP at 25 fps. Is this correct? Or is it the case that when they say HD video @ 60fps, it's some kind of interlaced mode which means you can't play back at a slower frame rate to get smooth slow motion?
The other thing I've noted is that all of these cameras do record HD video, but it's always compressed in H264 format. I understand that this puts a serious limitation on how much post-processing you can do to the video afterwards. Highly compressed video will begin to show image artefacts very quickly when you apply effects as opposed to higher quality (bigger file size) video compression. But I think I can live with that given that for the stuff I want to make, it will just be simply edited and only lightly graded. However, of the cameras I'm looking at, the Lumix also records in a format called AVCHD which (I think) does full HD at 17 Mbps. Does this mean that it's basic video quality is significantly better than the other choices? That said, from the specs it's unclear if it actually allows shooting at higher frame rates which you can slow down at playback.. the way it describes 60fps mode makes it sound like it's just interlacing so you don't actually get a higher number of images per second to then be able to play back at a lower frame rate. This for me might rule it out because I really want the creative effect of high speed video, even if it's only the subtle effect of 60 fps slowed down to 25.
So in summary, I'm looking for a camera capable of creative shooting (high quality stills to make stop motion videos, usable-quality HD video along with at least some degree of high speed video at a resolution that is still usable) to make interesting and artistic footage to accompany music. The destination medium is the web, so even though I'd like to get the best quality raw material to work with, the final destination is not exactly a cinema screen. As a pro in a related industry, I'm all too aware of the pointlessness of buying outlandishly over-specced gear that is far beyond your level of expertise. So I want to keep it simple and realistic, budget-wise, given the level I'm at. Nothing more than say $800 US. A seriously high end camera would be wasted on me, and I think it would be wiser to invest in useful accessories like a steadicam merlin and decent tripod rather than blow loads of cash on a camera far beyond my skill level.
Apologies for the long post, any and all advice would be very welcome and appreciated! And feel free to correct me if my assumptions are wrong, and suggest any gear that I should consider looking at.

Hi, thanks for your input. I'm aware of the fact that my question is a bit OT, but I'm just looking for input from people with more experience and broader information in this area than I have myself.. I know people are here to talk about FCP, but I'm betting many editors and film makers who work with FCP will have more insight in this area than I do.
I've been reading every review I can find at dpreview, and also am watching as many test video examples I can find on the internet, mostly on vimeo because the ones on youtube look pretty awful. I just am reaching out to get some actual experience and advice from people who might give me pointers on what to look out for.
As for 60fps not being fast enough, I know what you're saying. But for me, even 60 fps slowed down to 25 fps on playback is enough of an interesting effect, as long as the actual quality of the footage looks good to start off with. I like the subtle effect of slightly slower than real motion when it's real, bona-fide high frame rate slowed down. Artificially created slow-mo using plug ins looks cheesy to me, and the gimmicky super high frame rates of cameras like the casio exilim (where the resolution looks like a mobile phone video from ten years ago) are completely useless.
I've seen lots of examples on vimeo of stuff shot with DSLRs from Canon and Nikon at 60fps and then played back at 25 or 24, and it looks plenty nice enough for what I'm after. But am I kidding myself that I'd get anything near as nice with the price range I'm looking at?

Capturing 1080P 60fps Aja Kona 3G speeding video up

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for