When did you buy the card?
Does it still work with the software you bought to run with?
Did you get $1500 worth of use out of it?
Ya, it's a drag but technology marches on...
Jim "wanna buy a Kona 2?" Feeley
On Nov 12, 2011, at 5:32 PM, John Kilgour wrote:
> Great! Thanks AJA for EOLing my $1500 card
>
> On Nov 12, 2011, at 8:25 PM, <Greg@SecretHQ.com> wrote:
>
>> I was in the middle of installing an LH/e to test - there is a new
>> driver 9.1, which is the driver that's working with IO Express and
>> Kona
>> 3 - so I assumed it should work.
>>
>> Meanwhile, I was having an email exchange with Jon Thorn from AJA
>> about
>> a separate issue - and happened to mentioned I was installing the
>> LH/e
>> to test. Jon says it's EOL and not supported for MC 6.
>>
>> Since I was close, I finished the install, and tested, and could
>> not get
>> it to work- even though it works perfectly with FCP on the same
>> system.
>> Needless to say, I put back the IO Express, which works great with
>> both.
>>
>>
>> So, my test would indicate that it doesn't work - and Jon's remark is
>> even more to the point - LH/e not supported for MC6.
>>
>> Great way to waste a Saturday... Anyone want to buy my spare LH/e?
>> Pretty sure it doesn't work with MC6.
>>
>> GH
>> -------------------------------------
>> Greg Huson
>> Chief
>> Greg (at) SecretHQ.com
>> www.SecretHQ.com
>> DigitalServiceStation.com
>>
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: Kona LHe
>> From: Andy Liebman <andyliebman@editshare.com>
>> Date: Sat, November 12, 2011 4:19 pm
>> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
>>
>> Wow, I was just doing laps in the pool and I started thinking to
>> myself,
>> "Did I just make a post on the AvidL that referred to the "Kona LHe"
>> card AND "Blackmagic" in the same breath? I really apologize if I led
>> anybody astray here.
>>
>> Yesterday we installed a Kona LHe card in a Mac Pro and a Decklink
>> Extreme PCIe card in the Z800. These are both very old cards, of
>> course. In fact, you have to look for "legacy" products on the
>> Blackmagic web site to find the Extreme PCIe. So far, we have only
>> tested the Decklink card so, that's the one that we can say is
>> working
>> like a charm. We'll report back on our experience with the Kona
>> card on
>>
>> Monday.
>>
>> Andy
>>> MC 6 works fine with the Kona LHe. We are running this combination
>>> right now on a Z800. We have been capturing and doing Digital Cuts
>>> with uncompressed HD 1080i/59.94 10-bit without issue (to/from
>>> EditShare storage, of course). VERY interesting to see "Blackmagic"
>>> listed as the device in the Capture Tool. We have also tested
>>> software encoding of various DNxHD flavors plus XDCAM-HD 50 and all
>> is
>>> good.
>>>
>>> Andy Liebman
>>> Founder and CEO, EditShare
>>
>>
>>
>>
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