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Features
The KONA 3 card offers a large number of unique features for optimum quality, ease of use,
and support for a wide variety of post production workflows.
Hardware
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SD-SDI, HD-SDI, Dual Link HD-SDI, and HSDL inputs
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2K support that includes 2048x1556 and 2048x1080 formats
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x4 Lane PCI-Express Bus Interface (or PCI-X 133Mhz)
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DVCProHD hardware scaling acceleration
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HDV hardware scaling acceleration
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Broadcast quality hardware based 10-bit up-conversion
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Broadcast quality hardware based 10-bit down-conversion
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Broadcast quality hardware based 10-bit cross-conversion (1080 to 720 and 720 to
1080)
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Broadcast quality hardware based 10-bit SD aspect ratio conversion (anamorphic to
letterbox, etc.)
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12-bit HD component analog video and SD analog component or composite and s-
video output
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10-bit HD/SD Video+Key Output
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HD/SD Hardware Downstream Keyer
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8-channel 24-bit, 48kHz or 96kHz digital AES/EBU audio
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16 channels of SDI embedded digital audio
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RS-422 control via 9 pin
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Genlock input with optional looping capability via the K3- Box (terminated on the
supplied breakout cable)
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Standard 2 meter length connection cables
Broadcast-Quality Conversion
KONA 3 features hardware based full 10-bit broadcast quality motion adaptive SD to HD up-
conversion, HD to SD down-conversion and HD to HD cross-conversion. The quality of the
conversion features found in the KONA 3 is virtually identical to AJA's award winning stand-
alone converter products used throughout the post production market. The KONA 3 built-
in up-converter uses a a full 10-bit path, fully motion adaptive de-interlacing, and large
multi-point digital interpolators. Down-conversion uses large multi-point digital
interpolators, anti-alias filtering and interpolation.
Cross-conversion is high-quality hardware-based, providing capability to streamline dailies
and offers true broadcast picture quality in realtime. Because these functions are in
hardware on the card, they are available full time, all the time—with no CPU load. Such
conversions are useful for cost effective monitoring, making standard definition dubs of an
HD project, or up-converting from a standard definition project to an HD deliverable.
KONA 3 Audio
KONA 3 supports 8 channels of 24-bit 48kHz or 96kHz AES digital audio via XLR (balanced
110 ohm) connectors (using the supplied breakout cable) or XLR and BNC (unbalanced 75
ohm) connectors (when the optional K3-Box breakout box is used.) KONA 3 also supports
16 channels of embedded 24-bit 48kHz digital audio over the same SDI connection as the
video. If you are using a Digital Betacam VTR, HDCam VTR, DVCPro VTR, D5 VTR or HDCam
SR VTR—you'll have the proper audio connections for interfacing with the VTR.
