RS 422 switch box and Kona LHe card??

Just received and installed this card. I have three decks that use RS 422 control and the Kona card only has one. Is it O.K. to use a switching box to switch between decks for RS 422 control. I have a 4 port RS 422 switch box that I used on an old system and seems like it would work.
Thanks
John

Using the switch should be fine, particularly as it worked in your previos set up.

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I just ordered a Kona LHe card and look forward to posting my experience with it on my Quad G5. A quick search of the forum didn't bring up much about the new PCI Express LHe version although I'm sure some of you are using it. I'm not immediately interested in the uncompressed workflow, but would like to get the best out of the DVCPro compression support.
Please let me know if there are any major issues with setup, drivers, etc. that might save me some trouble.
FYI, I'm using FCP Studio 5 with mixed DVCProHD 720 24P and DV-50 24P footage most of the time and hope to be able to "pulldown" the 24P footage live on output to tape.

Thanks. The Creativecow forum is very helpful although few of the posts are about this particular card (it's brand new). I'll keep this forum updated of any issues as I test the unit.

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This is kind of an emergency because i am in the process of logging a feature film. I am using the Kona LHe card to capture analog audio and video with the JVC BR-HD50 HDV deck. It is 720p24 HDV footage converted to analog DVCProHD 720p59.94 footage through the Kona. My issue is that the audio is about 4 or 5 seconds unsycned with the video...I am also getting some audio popping. The audio sounds fine when listening through the line mixer but it pops when i play back though FCP. I already contacted AJA (the makers of Kona) and they its a FCP problem...Any prompt help would be greatly appreciated...
-JE

Welcome to the forums!
What version of FCP are you running? If you can, get to the most current version as this solves a lot of issues with the DVCPRO HD codec.
And have you read this whitepaper?
http://www.aja.com/pdfs/AJAwhitepaperHDV.pdf
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currently running final cut 5.1.4 on mac pro. we have installed our KONA LHE card and have video from the mac and our sony HDV HVR MI5 deck displaying via the KONA onto our JVC monitorperfectly.
However when we try to connect the Kona audio to our mixing desk we get the sound through from the final cut timeline, but it is unusable, it isnt distorted but it is swamped by noise and intereference.
We have the HVR deck connected to the mixer with no problems, so it isnt a problem with the mixing desk. (Soundcraft Spirit E Series) So could it be a setting of the KONA? pretty sure phantom power was turned off, so hopefully ahvent fried anything!
Would we get any sound through if we had fried the audio part of the card with phantom power?

tried plugging them into the desks XLR mic connections
That's your problem. MIC connections. Not meant for balanced audio, only for MICS. I had the same problem. My first 4 XLR connections on my mixer are MIC inputs. They are designed to be phantom powered and to be HOT (loud), so any balanced audio from a deck or capture card will be too much for the inputs. YOu gotta use non-mic inputs.
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Does anyone have any experience with Color and Kona LHe? If grading in 2K will you be able to output a signal to a 1080p monitor to monitor your grade?

Oops, my bad... but its a bit rare to get a pro inquiry here.. but never mind.
If it doesn't say that it will expressly support a format, it probably won't. I guess that's the short answer -- and I'm not seeing any 2K support on the LHe on the link.
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I have major lagging issues within PPro 5.5 just moving clips around on the timeline. My audio is very laggy and drops out on occasion, my video is laggy and jittery when scrubbing the timeline and PPro's general responsiveness is woeful and virtually unusable.
Am I missing something here? Is this a problem with the LHi card on the Mac or is it something to do with the AJA Adobe utilities or the GTX285 card? I am at a loss.
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Hi Alex,
Good to see you post this. I have the *exact same situation and hardware as you (same Kona board, graphics card, MacPro 4,1, etc...) - and I have been having many problems as well. Was excited to switch over to PPro from FCP (and I'm sure this is going to happen much more frequently now that FCPx is a bust) and had heard of all the speed improvements. But I have had trouble with sluggish timelines (dragging clips around in the timeline lags far behind the cursor) , sluggish editing, dropping audio from the Kona card during cuts. I am about to have some more conversations with AJA about this and also keep searching out clues here on the forums.
My question to you: what kind of footage are you editing that gives you issues? For me, it is H.264 coming from my Canon 5D. Is it happening with all different kinds of codecs and footage? Can you be a little more specific about the issues? (ie when do you experience the sluggishness and the audio dropouts? Does it happen if you disable the Kona player and just use the Adobe player instead?)
I can post more of my findings as I get more time. Hopefully we can track this down.
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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!
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10 bit @ 720 x 486 @ 29.97fps = 27 MB per/sec, or 94 GB per/hr.
625 PAL uncompressed;
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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.
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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;
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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.
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we did install the new drivers (v4) and it still didn't work. Apparently, the IT guy here is going to call AJA later today. It's good to hear they have great tech support. I feel like noone does anymore.
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