Re: 720p30 through the kona?

I don't have an answer for you on "why Kona doesn't have a 720p30 preset", but I do have a word of caution.

I recently worked with Varicam footage shot at 720p30, and like you, the only way I could get the footage input and play out through a Kona2 was to capture with a preset of 720p59.94. This setting gave me dupilcate frames, but the footage played out cleanly through the Kona 2.

After capturing, I discovered an intermittent issue where some clips discarded the duplicate frames during the capture. In other words the video clip was half the original captured length, while the audio in the clip captured at normal length. As a result, what I got was a clip whose visual speed was doubled until the halfway point of the clip. The video capture then went black, while the audio continued to capture at normal speed.

So, for example, I'd capture a 10 minute clip with audio and video. Upon loading the captured clip I discovered the video would run at 2 times normal speed, then at 5 minutes into the clip the video would go to black, while the audio portion of the clip continued to play on until the normal end of the clip. This did not happen to every clip, and it did not seem to happen if I used "capture now"

I was capturing via firewire, and I never tried to capture via HD-SDI to see if the results were any different. At some point we just had to move forward with the project, so I never got a chance to try to figure out the capture issue with 720p30.

Bottom line, check your clips carefully after capture.

G5 2.5ghz DP, 2.5Gbyte RAM, FCP 6.0.2, OSX.4.11
QT7.3, Kona2 (v4.0) w/Kbox, Atto UL3D, Medea RTRX640, Huge MV 1.8Tbyte, Radeon 9800XT