AJA KONA LHe Plus HD-SDI / Analog Video Capture & Playback PCI Card

Key Features

• Hardware: SD-SDI, HD-SDI, analog HD/SD input and output
• Hardware: 12-bit HD analog component I/O
• Hardware: 12-bit SD analog component or composite S-Video I/O
• Hardware: 10-bit hardware HD-to-SD down conversion
• Hardware: Single SD-SDI or HD-SDI input
• Hardware: Dual independent SD-SDI/HD-SDI outputs
• Hardware: Two-channel balanced XLR AES and two-channel balanced XLR analog audio I/O
• Hardware: Eight-channel SDI-embedded audio I/O
• Hardware: HD/SD genlock input and RS-422 machine control
• Hardware: Support for Apple Final Cut Pro & Motion, Adobe After Effects, Autodesk Combustion and more
• Hardware: Breakout cable included
• KONA for PC software allows Windows to access the hardware power of your KONA card within major editing and graphics applications. Other software vendors have also provided integrated support for KONA in their own PC applications through direct collaboration with AJA
• You can play back and master material, at a variety of frame rates, on a high-resolution wide-screen monitor or digital projector. Custom AJA software allows full control over your playback parameters, which are clearly laid out, including provisions for choosing a user-specified LUT
• Supplied AJA plug-ins integrate your KONA card into a variety of graphics/visual-effects software applications to make operations even easier to use. Using AJA plug-ins, sophisticated features appear as if they were native to the software application user interfaces
• Directly supported applications include Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk Combustion and Eyeon Digital Fusion
• KONA for PC software includes a standalone powerful capture / playback application, AJA Machina, that includes full VTR machine control with access to any and all KONA supported file formats, video standards and hardware conversions, presented in a very cool and easy-to-use interface
• Machina supports all KONA for PC formats, including DVCPRO HD, QuickTime, DPX and many others. Files captured from Machina can be imported into virtually any software package that supports these file formats, such as compositing programs, 3D animation programs, audio editing programs and much more
• Machina has great desktop preview features that allow you to preview your files full screen on your desktop display at various zoom levels, creating an alternative for frame-by-frame viewing when no additional monitor is available
• In addition Machina allows you to apply 1D LUTs on output, to output video + key for monitoring or mixing and to key in static graphics (on selected KONA cards)
• AJA KONA for Mac drivers are optimized for use on OS X, with applications and advanced AJA hardware capabilities controlled easily and at a glance in the application you're using
• KONA for Mac software integrates within the native environment where used - whether Apple Final Cut Studio, Adobe Creative Suite, or several other major Mac applications
• Final Cut Pro Features: Easy setups for instant configuration of your workflow in unison with KONA hardware
• Final Cut Pro Features: Advanced hardware configuration from the AJA Control Panel can be accessed without leaving your application by simply holding down the command key and clicking into the UI
• Final Cut Pro Features: HDV codec hardware acceleration. The KONA hardware allows instantaneous real-time playback for both monitoring and recording. Even KONA's conversions work in real time with HDV, allowing SD monitoring, dubs, or mastering
• Final Cut Pro Features: DVCPro HD codec hardware acceleration. KONA's precision hardware allows capture and playback of HD-SDI video to and from the DVCPRO HD codec at a quality level virtually indistinguishable from native FireWire, while freeing up valuable RT processing power
• Final Cut Pro Features: Dynamic RT Extreme video scaling support. Dynamic RT Extreme video scaling is offloaded in real time to KONA as the "Playback Video Quality" dynamically adjusts
• Adobe Creative Suite Features: Advanced AJA Plug-ins support, offering control of KONA using familiar controls and appearance within Adobe CS applications including Premiere, Photoshop and After Effects
• Adobe Creative Suite Features: Real-time Photoshop broadcast video output to broadcast monitors; Real-time Capture, Display and Mastering from within After Effects
• Adobe Creative Suite Features: Saved software rendering time with hardware-based KONA Up/Cross/Down Conversion; Native real-time support for file-per-frame formats such as DPX, Cineon, TIFF, TGA and BMP
• KONA Desktop Enhances All Mac Applications: The KONA Desktop feature allows broadcast design elements to be viewed with the proper aspect ratio and color depth on a broadcast monitor via the KONA card
• KONA Desktop is available on the entire range of KONA cards, supporting Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, Apple Motion, Apple Shake and more