Does the KONA perform VariCam duplicate frame removal?
The KONA board and drivers will handle VariCam duplicate frame removal during capture via the KONA board’s uncompressed HD-SDI input for any “shooting” frame rate (it skips over any extra frames). However, Final Cut Pro can only capture video at the standard video frame rates as determined in the Capture Preset Editor dialog: 60, 59.94, 30. 29.97, 25, 24, 23.98, and 15 fps. So, for example, if you want to shoot and edit your movie at 12 fps, VariCam could capture it, and KONA 2 could digitize it, but you wouldn’t have a way to get FCP to make 12 fps clips or sequences. When your “shooting” frame rate is the same as your “playback” frame rate, you can use the KONA Easy Setup that matches. For example, if you are shooting at 23.98 fps and your intent is to capture/edit/playback the clip at 23.98 fps, then you can use the “AJA Kona 720p 23.98 Varicam” or “AJA Kona 720p 23.98 DVCProHD Varicam” Easy Setups and the card will automatically skip the duplicate VariCam frames and ONLY capture th
