Easy Setups for Typical Uses. AJA KONA LH/LHe

KONA LHe Installation and Operation Manual — Easy Setups for Typical

Easy Setups for Typical Uses

Final Cut and KONA LHe together make working with multiple formats an easy proposition.

Inside of Final Cut, equipment and setting presets are available in groups called Easy Setups, from which you can choose typical system configurations. A large set of Easy Setups are supplied with KONA LHe and installed along with the KONA LHe software. At installation you can choose exactly which sets of Easy Setups you want. These canned choices can be used directly or as the basis for making your own customized Easy Setups unique to your system. By duplicating an Easy Setup and then making changes to it, you simplify the process of configuring and re-configuring when working with new formats.

Although this manual assumes you’re familiar with Final Cut Pro and have read its documentation, let’s review Easy Setups and how to use them effectively with KONA LHe.

1 control, and for project sequences. These presets are defined in the Audio/Video Settings menu.

Just like Easy Setups, here also there are factory defined choices, plus you can create and make your own. When you have a set of presets you want to use again, you can store them as an “Easy

Setup.”

On the following pages we’ll further review the Easy Setups menu and Audio/Video Settings

Menu.

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Easy Setups Menu

Both the Easy Setups menu item and the Audio/Video Settings menu item are located under the main Final Cut Pro menu.

Easy Setup and Audio/Video Menu Items

Click on the Easy Setups menu item and Final Cut Pro will present the Easy Setup dialog window:

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Easy Setup dialog

At the top of the Easy Setup dialog is the currently selected Easy Setup. It can be changed by clicking on the pulldown arrow at the right. Doing so results in a long list of the factory Easy

Setups stored on the system. If you wish to see all of the Easy Setups, factory and userdefined, then ensure the “Show All” checkbox is marked at the right side of the dialog. By default, all AJA Easy Setups will be checked.

A large set of Easy

Setups are

Provided as KONA

LH defaults

Factory Easy Setups

To choose a new Easy Setup from the list, click on the pulldown menu and select a desired choice. The choice won’t take effect until you click the Setup button, but you will be able to see