AJA KONA LHi I/O PCIe Card
SKU: AJA-KONA-Lhi
Features:
- Convert Formats
- Legacy Analog or 3G/HD/SD-SDI & HDMI
- Breakout Cable
- Optional Breakout Box
- Mac & PC Compatible
Details
The AJA KONA LHi Capture Card is designed to bridge the gap between legacy analog devices and the latest products using 3Gbps SDI and HDMI by providing editing, monitoring, and mastering of pro-quality video in a powerful yet affordable system. This unit comes with a breakout cable, and can also be connected to an optional breakout box for rackmount I/O convenience and additional connectivity in the form of BNC digital AES/EBU connectors and RCA monitoring jacks.
Features:
- KONA LHi uses the Aja Control Panel application to configure various hardware parameters and can also be used to auto-detect input format & frame rate and configure hardware-based up/down/cross-conversions
- Use this device to interface with devices such as an HDMI-enabled camera, an HD-SDI VTR connection, and legacy analog video equipment
- By way of the card's "Input PassThrough" mode, you can configure it to act as a converter within your computer, allowing you to embed or disembed audio or convert a signal like HDMI to HD-SDI
- It features full, 10-bit, broadcast-quality, motion-adaptive SD to HD up-conversion, HD to HD cross-conversion, HD to SD down-conversion, and automatic HD/SD 12-bit component analog output
- All of KONA LHi's conversions are hardware-based, therefore they are available all the time, even during ingest or playback
- Outputs can be configured independently allowing you to have simultaneous HD and SD output, or two different types of HD (720 or 1080) output at the same time via cross-conversion
- The card offers DVCPRO HD hardware acceleration
- HDMI v1.3a with Deep Color at 30/36 bits per pixel on input & output is supported
- It offers 12-bit HD analog component input & output
- The card features 10-bit, hardware-based, real-time up/down/cross-conversions
- 12-bit SD analog component, composite, or S-Video input & output are available
- Dynamic RT hardware acceleration is a standard feature
- The card features (2) channels of balanced XLR AES digital audio and (2) channels of balanced XLR analog audio input & output
- 8-channel SDI embedded audio input & output is included
- HD/SD Genlock and RS-422 machine control are standard features
- It supports LTC input on the reference input
- This solution is compatible with Final Cut Studio applications, Adobe applications, and most industry-standard applications
- A breakout cable is included as a standard feature and a breakout box can be purchased separately
Specifications
Video Formats
- 525i 29.97
- 625i 25
- 720P 50, 59.94, 60
- 1080i 25, 29.97, 30
- 1080PsF 23.98, 24
- 1080p 23.98, 24, 25, 29.97, 30, 50, 59.94, 60
- 2K
- 2048 x 1080P 23.98, 24, 25, 29.97, 30
- 2048 x 1080PsF 23.98, 24
Software-dependent Formats
These formats are dependent on specific software functionality and are not normal 'over-the-wire' formats.
- 525i 23.98
- 720P 23.98
Video Input Digital
- 3G/SD/HD SDI, SMPTE-259/292/296/424, 8- or 10-bits
- Single link 4:2:2 (1 x BNC)
- HDMI v1.3 30 bits/pixel, RGB or YUV, 2.25 Gbps, SD, HD, 1080p-50/60 (1 x mini-HDMI)
Video Input Analog
- Composite/S-Video (Y/C) (1 x BNC/2x BNC+Adaptor)
- NTSC, NTSCJ, PAL
- Component (3 x BNC)
- HD: YPbPr, RGB
- SD: YPbPr, RGB (component mode)
- SMPTE/EBU N10, Betacam 525 line, Betacam 525J, RGB
- 12-bit D/A, 8x oversampling
- +/- .2 dB to 5.0 MHz Y Frequency Response
- +/- .2 dB to 1 MHz C Frequency Response
- .5% 2T pulse response
- <1% Diff Phase
- <1% Diff Gain
- <1 ns Y/C delay inequity
Video Output Digital
- 3G/SD/HD SDI, SMPTE-259/292/296/424
- Single link 4:2:2 or 4:4:4 (1 x BNC)
- HDMI v1.3 30 bits/pixel, RGB or YUV, 2.25 Gbps, SD, HD, 1080p-50/60 (1 x mini-HDMI)
Video Output Analog
- Composite/S-Video (Y/C) (1 x BNC/2x BNC+Adaptor)
- NTSC, NTSCJ, PAL
- Component (3 x BNC)
- HD: YPbPr, RGB
- SD: YPbPr, RGB (component mode)
- SMPTE/EBU N10, Betacam 525 line, Betacam 525J, RGB
- 12-bit D/A, 8x oversampling
- +/- .2 dB to 5.0 MHz Y Frequency Response
- +/- .2 dB to 1 MHz C Frequency Response
- .5% 2T pulse response
- <1% Diff Phase
- <1% Diff Gain
- <1 ns Y/C delay inequity
Audio Input Digital
- 8-channel, 24-bit SMPTE-259 SDI embedded audio, 48kHz sample rate, Synchronous
- 8-channel, 24-bit HDMI embedded audio, 48kHz sample rate, Synchronous
- 2-channel, 24-bit AES/EBU audio, 48kHz sample rate, Synchronous or Non-synchronous, Internal sample rate conversion (via 1 x XLR on breakout cable or optional KLHi-Box)
Audio Input Analog
- 2-channel, 24-bit A/D analog audio, 48kHz sample rate, balanced (via 2 x XLR on DB-25 breakout cable or optional KLHi-Box)
- +24dbu Full Scale Digital
- +/- 0.2db 20 to 20kHz Frequency Response
Audio Output Digital
- 8-channel, 24-bit SMPTE-259 SDI embedded audio, 48kHz sample rate, Synchronous
- 8-channel, 24-bit HDMI embedded audio, 48kHz sample rate, Synchronous
- 2-channel, 24-bit AES/EBU audio, 48kHz sample rate, Synchronous or Non-synchronous, Internal sample rate conversion (via 1 x XLR on breakout cable or optional KLHi-Box)
Audio Output Analog
- 2-channel, 24-bit D/A analog audio, 48kHz sample rate, balanced (via 2 x XLR on DB-25 breakout cable or optional KLHi-Box)
- +24dbu Full Scale Digital (0dbFS)
- +/- 0.2db 20 to 20kHz Frequency Response
- 2-channel unbalanced output (via 2 x RCA jacks on optional KLHi-Box)
Up-Conversion
- Hardware 10-bit
- Anamorphic: full-screen
- Pillar box 4:3: results in a 4:3 image in center of screen with black sidebars
- Zoom 14:9: results in a 4:3 image zoomed slightly to fill a 14:9 image with black side bars
- Zoom Letterbox: results in image zoomed to fill full screen
- Zoom Wide: results in a combination of zoom and horizontal stretch to fill a 16:9 screen; this setting can introduce a small aspect ratio change
Down-conversion
- Hardware 10-bit
- Anamorphic: full-screen
- Letterbox: image is reduced with black top and bottom added to image area with the aspect ratio preserved
- Crop: image is cropped to fit new screen size
Cross-conversion
- Hardware 10-bit
- 1080i to 720P
- 720P to 1080i
- 720P to 1080PsF
SD to SD aspect ratio conversion
- Letterbox: This transforms SD anamorphic material to a letterboxed image.
- H Crop: Will produce a horizontally stretched effect on the image; transforms anamorphic SD to full frame
- SD Pillarbox: Will produce an image in the center of the screen with black borders on the left and right sides and an anamorphized image in the center
- V Crop: Will transform SD letterbox material to an anamorphic image.
Reference Input
- Analog Color Black (1V) or Composite Sync (2 or 4V)
- looping
- 75 ohm on optional KLHi-Box, terminated on supplied breakout cable
Machine Control
- RS-422, Sony 9-pin protocol (via DB-25 breakout cable or optional KLHi-Box)
- 9-pin D-connector pinout is as follows::
1 GND 2 RX- 3 TX+ 4 GND 5 No Collection 6 GND 7 RX+ 8 TX- 9 GND Shell GND
What's In The Box
AJA KONA LHi Capture Card
- Breakout Cable
- HDMI Cable
- Software CD-ROM