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KONA 3G Installation and Operation Manual — Easy Setups for Typical Uses
Notes on using
multiple AJA
Products:
Performance of multi-product use depends on a variety of factors: CPU usage, RAM, disk IOPS/
bandwidth for streams of video, etc. and therefore performance may vary. Also be aware that
multiple input/output streams are only supported by software that is explicitly designed for a
multi-product environment.
Easy Setups for Typical Uses
Final Cut and KONA 3G 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 3G and installed along with the KONA 3G software. 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 3G.
At the simplest level, Final Cut lets you choose and edit presets for capturing media, device
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.
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: