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AJA ColorBox HDR/SDR Color Converter
SKU: AJCOLORBOX MFR: COLORBOX
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- Achieve real-time HDR/SDR conversions with the AJA ColorBox format converter for seamless workflows.
- Enjoy stable performance with 12-bit RGB processing, ensuring high-quality video output every time.
- Easily manage color with AJA Color Pipeline, featuring dynamic LUT processing and custom matrix support.
- Utilize the Colorfront pipeline for perceptually optimized color remapping, preserving creative intent.
- Convert various video formats, including 4K/UltraHD, with versatile 12G-SDI and HDMI connectivity.
- Affordable HDR solution with BBC HLG LUTs, offering mathematical dynamic range mapping per ITU-R BT.2408.
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About AJA ColorBox
v2.1 firmware update for AJA ColorBox delivers exciting new features for the color management device. Inspired by customer feedback, the feature-rich update introduces 4K/UltraHD down-conversion, 4K/2K cropping, new ACES Metadata File (AMF) support, ARRI Wireless Video Optimized LogC4 (WVO) compatibility, SDR Preview for Colorfront Live Mode and BBC HLG LUTs v1.7
Bring precision and versatility to your color-managed workflows with the ColorBox HDR/SDR Color Converter. This compact, high-performance converter is engineered to meet the specific conversion needs of broadcast, live events, and on-set applications.
The ColorBox supports Standard Dynamic Range (SDR), High Dynamic Range (HDR), and Wide Color Gamut (WCG) signals, providing you with a comprehensive solution for your color conversion needs. It utilizes 12G-SDI and HDMI 2.0 for single wire 4K/UltraHD HDR, ensuring high-quality video output up to 4:2:2 10-bit 60p or 4:4:4 12-bit 30p.
Built around a 33-point 3D LUT processor with tetrahedral interpolation, the ColorBox features a unique color processing pipeline. This includes additional 4x 1D LUTs and 2x 3x3 matrices, each individually configurable as Proc Amps or RGB Color Correctors.
The ColorBox is designed for user-friendly operation, with a web user interface that can be accessed directly from a wired Ethernet connection or through a wireless connection via a third-party WiFi USB adapter. It also includes processing pipeline modes from Colorfront and NBCU LUTs, as well as a powerful AJA Color Pipeline.
The ColorBox also offers licensable upgrade options for advanced color-managed workflows, including BBC HLG LUTs and the all-new ORION-CONVERT engine. This unique real-time floating point math approach to color transforms produces higher precision results, enabling pixel-perfect color transforms and round tripping where maintaining colors is paramount.
The ColorBox also features a sophisticated test pattern generator and frame store, providing useful tools for your workflow. It can capture up to a 4K image as a 16-bit .tiff file for the highest quality reference stills.
The ColorBox is designed with an elegant front panel that includes a USB OTG port, a select button for manually bypassing video processing, a power button, an SDI Lock LED, and a status LED. The rear provides 12G-SDI Input and Output, HDMI 2.0 Output, 4-pin mini-XLR power, and a 1GigE Ethernet port.
The ColorBox is perfect for 4K/UltraHD SDR and HDR pipelines for live television and concert production. It can easily convert SDR signals to HDR and HDR to other delivery formats. The licensable ORION-CONVERT and BBC HLG LUTs options, as well as the free built-in Colorfront transforms and NBCU LUTs, provide all the necessary tools to manage HDR workflows.
The ColorBox is compact and lightweight, making it perfect for DIT and mobile applications. It comes with a range of Pipelines to choose from, each designed for specific production needs. Some Pipelines are designed specifically for live broadcast or live event needs, while others offer great flexibility for more control over each step of a transform for any application.
In conclusion, the ColorBox HDR/SDR Color Converter offers unrivaled image processing capabilities with an array of options for a device of its type. It provides full 12-bit 4:4:4 up to 4K 30p and 10-bit 4:2:2 up to 4K 60p, ensuring high-quality video output for your professional needs.
AJA ColorBox Features
- 12-bit 4:4:4 12G-SDI I/O for up to 4K/UltraHD HDR/WCG 30p
- 10-bit 4:2:2 12G-SDI I/O for up to 4K/UltraHD HDR/WCG 60p
- 12-bit 4:4:4 HDMI 2.0 output for up to 4K/UltraHD HDR/WCG 30p
- 10-bit 4:2:2 HDMI 2.0 output for up to 4K/UltraHD HDR/WCG 60p
- Ultra low latency, less than 1/2 a video line
- Extensive AJA Color Pipeline built around the 33pt. 3D LUT processor with tetrahedral interpolation
- 7x nodes plus Overlay: 1x 3D LUT processor, user configurable as 3D LUT or Dynamic, 4x 1D LUT processors, user configurable as 1D LUT, Dynamic, or Color Corrector, 2x 3x3 Matrix processors, user configurable as 3x3 Matrix, Dynamic, or ProcAmp
- Supports industry standard file types, no conversion to proprietary format required
- Configurable Colorspace, Range, and Transfer Characteristic
- Full frame LUT processing
- Five Color Processing Pipelines: AJA Color, Colorfront Mode, ORION-CONVERT Mode (Licensable option), BBC HLG LUT Mode (Licensable option), NBCU LUTs
- Video Preview in web user interface for confidence monitoring
- Built in Frame Store: Up to 4K/UltraHD frame capture and recall, Capture pre or post processed images
- Test Pattern up to 4K/UltraHD, 9x test patterns built-in
- Overlay information on output: User Text, Input and Output signal information, Pipeline Configuration, Overlay can be captured with image for future reference
- Onboard library for file management: 16x 1D LUTs, 16x 3D LUTs, 16x 3x3 Matrices, 16x Images
- Preset Management, 10 per Pipeline plus Startup Preset
- ANC metadata pass-through
- Embedded audio pass-through, SDI 16-ch. and HDMI 8-ch
- Compact; 4 units can fit in just 1RU
- Ultra quiet fan operation
- Lightweight
- Robust locking 4-pin mini-XLR power connector, DC power
- On/Off button so you can save power when not in use
- Select button used to bypass video processing
- Extensive API for 3rd party control integrations
- Embedded web server for remote control
- Configure IP Address via USB port and supplied AJA eMini-Setup software for PC/Mac
Warranty Information
This product has a limited warranty of 36 months.
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