On second-thought it may have been $1250. Still not "cheap" though
On Nov 12, 2011, at 8:41 PM, John Kilgour wrote:
> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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