Yeah, and after I submitted my last post, I realized that I'm guessing the Nitris hardware also doesn't/wont support Smoke 2013 like my Kona can. Aside from wanting real-time 2:3 pulldown insertion, I'd really like to have LTC output as well, both of which are obviously not possible with Kona. But those are minimal compared to everything else I get with my Kona hardware.
I just don't understand why Avid doesn't support Nitris with other software hosts, especially since it's really just AJA hardware anyway. Truly desert island syndrome.
But alas, I'll have to swap out my client 55" LED monitor in the edit suite (luckily my PVM-20L5 still works!). I thought the 55" LED in my conference room would work to replace it (their lit says it supports 24p) but after running a long SDI cable from the machine room and into it (with an AJA HI5 HD-SDI to HDMI adapter) from the Kona output from a 24p timeline, it didn't understand the native 24p source and gave a blank screen (despite what their lit says, I think they're saying it does 24p from a 60i source with RT Inverse telecine... misleading).
So I'm back to square one. Either I get a new 55" (or larger) client display that supports true 24p (while weeding through misleading product lit), or I get a conversion box that does real-time 2:3 pulldown insertion. I think the AJA FS1 does it, but that's $3500 and that's tough to swallow when only used for just one function (especially since it existed for us in FCP for years!). Doing the research now on potential black boxes. Oh the fun on a Friday night!
Cheers!
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