Chapter 2: Getting Started

KONA LHe And Your Workflow

There are a lot of ways to think about the video/audio workflow you follow. Your setup might be categorized as corporate video, professional broadcast, or desktop video. Or the workflow might be categorized by the type of equipment used rather than the nature of work produced—many systems these days are a mixture of equipment from high-end professional to desktop video. This chapter hopes to show how Final Cut Pro and KONA LHe can help fit into whatever workflow you currently have and make it more efficient.

A Workflow Scenarios diagram on the following page shows types of equipment, sorted by

VTR source, and the types of workflow attributes and KONA LHe applications supported. After the diagram, we also discuss some typical applications.

Source Deck Type(s)

Digital SD-SDI or HD-SDI

Examples: Digibeta, DV50, DVCPRO HD,

HD Varicam and DVcam

Analog

Examples: Beta, VHS, and U-matic

Digital capture via Firewire with Output via AJA

KONA LHe. The LHe has Analog HD component in,

which also allows you to bring in HD directly from

an HDV camera head.

Example: MiniDV, HDV

Without even using a deck; use the video monitor

as a second Mac monitor. The KONA LHe

desktop lets you drag graphics from

programs like Adobe Photoshop from

the computer display to the video monitor. You

paint full frame and live onto a broadcast monitor.

Output virtually anything to video—ideal for

animators and compositors.

Workflow Scenarios

Workflow Attributes

KONA LHe captures and outputs

SD-SDI/HD-SDI video with embedded audio. Use high-quality AES/EBU and/or embedded 8-channel audio output.

KONA LHe captures and outputs

Y/C, Component, and Composite

Video, with 2-channel audio.

Applications

Pro Broadcast

Corporate/Industrial

On-site Editing

Corporate/Industrial

Pro Broadcast

On-site Editing

Using standard desktop video techniques, video/audio is captured directly from a camcorder or deck.

KONA LHe is used for playing back captured media and editing/mastering to tape or DVD using Final Cut 5 HD and other tools such as After Effects,

Combustion, Apple Motion, etc.

HDV playback is aided by KONA LHe onboard hardware scalar.

Desktop Video

Corporate/Industrial

On-site Editing

Pro Broadcast

Using Final Cut Pro, work with a wide range of old and new SD and analog sources, and then also using desktop graphics and video software for creative power and flexibility.

Post-production

Animation

Compositing

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