AJA Kona2 card/Apple 10-bit Uncomp. Vegas???

newcancin wrote on 3/7/2006, 2:22 PM
I'm looking into getting film transfered direct to hard drive at a facility that uses a AJA Kona2 card to the Apple 10-bit uncompressed codec. Will Sony Vegas handle this? What do I need to know?

I tried doing some searches but couldn't find anything that specifically answers this.

Thanks for any answers.

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Spot|DSE wrote on 3/7/2006, 3:36 PM
Vegas can import it, (quicktime should cover you).
However, it sounds like you'll be editing the file? If so, Vegas is always 8 bit at any video process. The question is, what are you doing with it after you've imported it? If you're merely making a DVD, drop the 10 bit quicktime file on your timeline, render to MPEG 2 from that.
farss wrote on 3/7/2006, 5:30 PM
Just to follow on from what DSE is saying, if you do a supervised transfer then you get to specify the amount of light going through the film which might save some of what gets lost working in 8 bit.
If it's a print, then it's already graded so pretty much ignore that however if it's camera neg it could pay dividends to get the transfer timed.

Bob.
GlennChan wrote on 3/8/2006, 5:37 PM
Curious: Is the Apple 10-bit uncompressed codec available for quicktime on PC?

From what I remember, it is actually a codec and sometimes it's buggy (or FCP was buggy when interacting with it). I'm not sure if there's a quicktime/PC version of that codec.

Spot|DSE wrote on 3/8/2006, 5:49 PM
There is a version, and Quicktime/Vegas can also read Bitjazz, BMD, or Apple. For me, Vegas crashes with the Apple codec when I'm trying to move too fast. The BMD codec won't work on dual AMD procs for some reason. I guess each of them has issues still to work out.
Coursedesign wrote on 3/8/2006, 7:20 PM
The BMD 10-bit and 8-bit uncompressed Windows codecs are 100% compatible with Apple's ditto codecs, mostly because they are built to exactly the same specifications (v210 for 10-bit and 2vuy for 8-bit).

BMD has certified the Xenon 2 x Dual-Core AMD Opteron workstation for use with its cards, so your problem may lie with the particular motherboard you are using, especially if you are using a PCI Express Decklink card together with a PCI Express graphics card (this is a tough combination for several reasons).

Try to replace the Decklink card with a PCI version instead if you want to leave the PCI Express Graphics card in, this combo seems to have worked fine for others.

Or use an AGP graphics card if your mobo has a slot for this, and let the Decklink grab a PCI Express slot.