Saturday, November 12, 2011

Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Kona LHe - NG

Jim, gimme a break.. 2 years ago? 1500 aint cheap, i don't care who you are.

On Nov 12, 2011, at 8:38 PM, Jim Feeley wrote:

> 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
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> >
> >
> >
>
>

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