Re: 4:4:4 HDSR INTO FCP via AJA KONA Issues

[Keith Davies] "That was a kind of shorthand response to the reply suggesting a LHi with 3G over a single cable, which is still confusing me a bit if 4.4.4 is by design a dual link technology."

At first, it was. In laymen's terms, the components are split. It's all about data rate and the physical SDI circuitry and less about the physical cable. Dual link technology is 1.5 Gbps per cable, so together, that's 3Gbps. 3G technology, is 3Gbps over one cable. So 3G is essentially dual link data rate, multiplexed over one cable. The AJA product I linked to takes the 1.5 and 1.5 of dual link and multiplexes to one 3G connection. If you have a 3G capable capture card (like the LHi, but not the Kona3), then you can capture dual link over one cable. Hope that mkaes more sense.

[Keith Davies] "I appologise if my comment has caused offence to the engineering world...and how nice to be liken to Homer Simpson, so much better than Mo Flanders."

I was just kidding around with the Homer clips and messing with jPo. I wasn't liking that image to you at all. Sorry if you took offense, but it was not directed at you, but more directed at humor in general. :)

I don't try to come down on people who know what they don't know. It's a silly way to go through life, and educators would then be out of business. If it comes to a point where I know everything there is to know about this business, I am sure that will be the day I quit as I will be done learning.

[Keith Davies] "I don't understand the LHi option enough to suggest it. "

You'd need the LHi and the converter (dual ink 1.5 to 3G) to use the LHi. This way you could route one cable instead of two through the facility. The Kona 3 has other strengths though, in the Red and 2k department. Not sure if your'e working with any red and or 2k footage footage. If you are, stick with the K3.

Keep up the good work.

Jeremy