Instruction manual

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7. You can elect to either view the footage out of the card on monitors in one of three

ways (two of which may occur simultaneously) or output from the Kona 3 card via

HSDL to another HSDL compliant device. For monitoring, the 2K Crop tab of the

Kona Control Panel can be conﬁgured to output 1920x1080 from the 2K source.

These settings are described in Chapter 4 earlier in this manual under the description

of the “2K Crop Screen.”

The 1920x1080 crop can be sent to a Dual Link HD-SDI capable monitor by

connection of both of the HD-SDI outputs (Link A and Link B) of the KONA to the

Dual Link inputs of a monitor. Or if a single link HD output is desired, the signal may

be routed via single link HD-SDI out from the card. An additional single link HD-SDI

output can be obtained from the card or one SD-SDI output from the card—both of

which can happen simultaneously. The component output of the card can also be

conﬁgured to output HD or SD in conjunction with the SDI outputs. The settings for

the various outputs are accessed via the KONA Control Panel's Format tab by setting

the Secondary (Converted) Format. For HSDL output, the 2K Crop function must be

turned to Off in the Crop Mode and from the Digital Out tab of the KONA Control

Panel, Dual Link must be selected.

8. For HSDL output, you can select to output 2048x1556 at 14.98fps (which is a

standard among many HSDL devices), or you may elect to output via HSDL

2048x1080 at 23.98fps, which is what digital cinema devices tend to use. Or, you may

elect to output the timeline as a QuickTime movie that can be translated back into a

sequence of DPX ﬁles via the AJA QuickTimeToDPX Translator application.

Note: Note: This may be necessary for some devices and applications that do not

accept QuickTime ﬁles or the AJA Kona 10-bit Log RGB or AJA Kona 10-bit RGB

codecs but instead accept DPX ﬁles.

Additional

Advice

Due to the ﬂexible nature of Final Cut Pro, the timeline where the 2K ﬁles reside during

editing, can be sent to other applications to be worked on at 2K resolution; Motion and

Shake are examples of this. The 2K edit in Final Cut Pro can be referred to by other

applications via XML or EDL, like Silicon Color's Final Touch 2K, so that the 2K DPX

ﬁles or their associated QuickTime Reference Movies may be accessed.

Note:

KONA Utility Applications that can be used for 2K Workﬂow. All are available

free from: