AJA KONA LHi SD/HD Video I/O Card for Windows & Mac

If your post-production facility works with a wide variety of formats, frame rates and audio/video sources, the AJA KONA LHi provides the connectivity you need.

Connect everything from an HDMI enabled camera to an HD-SDI VTR to KONA LHi. Connecting to any of your legacy analog video signals is also possible through configurable component, composite, or s-video. Via an Input PassThrough mode, you can even configure the card to act as a converter within your computer.

KONA LHi offers a full host of no-compromise features: 10-bit or 8-bit uncompressed video, 2-channel AES digital audio and 8-channel SDI embedded digital audio, analog composite or s-video or SD/HD component video I/O, 2-channel balanced analog audio I/O, and broadcast-quality hardware-based up/down/crossconversion for flexible SD and HD post production.

KONA LHi's HDMI 1.3a support allows you to feed a deep color monitor with glorious 10-bit video, banishing video banding and preserving your gradients and rich color palate. Only KONA LHi delivers this 10-bit deep color state-of-the-art HDMI support.


Features
- 3G/HD/SD SDI input/output
- HDMI v1.3a w/Deep Color at 30 bits per pixel input/output
- 12-bit HD analog component input/output
- 12-bit SD analog component, composite, or S-Video input/output
- 10-bit Hardware-based realtime up/down/cross-conversions
- DVCPRO HD hardware acceleration
- HDV hardware acceleration
- Dynamic RT hardware acceleration
- 2-ch balanced XLR AES digital audio and 2-ch balanced XLR analog audio input/output
- 8-ch SDI embedded audio input/output
- HD/SD Genlock and RS-422 machine control
- LTC Input (on Reference input)
- Support for Final Cut Studio applications, Adobe applications and more
- Breakout cables standard, affordable breakout box optional
- 3-year warranty

Video Input
Digital:
3G/HD/SD SDI, SMPTE-259/292/296/424
HDMI v1.3, 30/36 bits/pixel,RGB or YUV, 2.25Gbps, SD,HD, 1080p50/60

Specifications

Analog:
Composite/S-Video (Y/C):NTSC, NTSCJ, PAL 12-bit A/D, 2x oversampling, 3 line adaptive comb filter decoding
SD Component: SMPTE/EBU N10, Betacam 525 line, Betacam 525J, RGB 12-bit A/D, 2x oversampling
HD Component: YPbPr, 12-bit A/D

Video Formats
525i 29.97
625i 25
720p 50
720p 59.94
720p 60
1080i 25
1080i 29.97
1080i 30
1080PsF 23.98
1080PsF 24
1080P 23.98
1080P 24
1080P 25
1080P 29.97
1080P 30
1080P 50
1080P 59.94
1080P 60

Video Output
- Digital: 3Gb SD and HD-SDI, SMPTE-259/292/296/424
- HDMI v1.3, 30/36 bits/pixel,RGB or YUV, 2.25Gbps, SD,HD, 1080p50/60
- Analog: Composite/S-Video (Y/C): NTSC, NTSCJ, PAL, 12-bit D/A, 8x oversampling
- SD Component: SMPTE/EBU N10, Betacam 525 line, Betacam 525J, RGB 12-bit D/A, 8x oversampling
- HD Component: YPbPr, RGB 12-bit D/A, 2x oversampling

Audio

Digital

24-bit SDI embedded audio, 8 channel, 48kHz 24-bit AES audio, 2 channel, 48kHz 16-bit capable

Analog

24-bit A/D and D/A, 2 channel balanced XLR, 48kHz +24dbu Full Scale Digital +/- 0.2db 20 to 20kHz frequency response

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
- Color Black or Tri-level sync (Ref input is looping/non-terminating on the KLHi-Box; terminated on supplied breakout cable)