AJA KONA 3G, Installation And Operation Manual

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Using Multiple AJA Products
Starting with the v7.5 drivers, more than one AJA product can be used with your host
computer. Using the AJA Control Panel application, you can choose which installed product
an application uses for input/output. In the upper left corner of the AJA Control Panel
application, you will see a board name, such as KONA 3G-0 and the pane heading will read
“AJA Control Panel” if you have more than one product and the associated drivers installed (if
only one product is installed, you’ll see no product or pulldown and the product name will
appear in the header). To “target” a specific installed product for use, click on the text in the
upper left hand side of the UI and select from the list of available products that appear in the
pulldown.
When you launch an application such as Final Cut Pro, or AJA TV, that application will use the
product that is currently selected in the AJA Control Panel application for its input/output.
Once an application is running, you can change the “targeted” product selection in the AJA
Control Panel and select a different product. The running application will retain its connection
to the product. If you change the “targeted” product and launch a different application, that
application will use the new product for its input/ output, while the first application you
launched will continue to use the other AJA product.
Example:
select a KONA 3G as the targeted product in the AJA Control Panel application.
Launch Final Cut Pro. Final Cut Pro is now using the KONA 3G for its input/output. Go
back to the AJA Control Panel application and select a KONA LHi as the “targeted”
product. Launch the AJA TV application. AJA TV would now use the LHi for its output. If
you switch back to Final Cut Pro, you would note that it is still uses the KONA 3G for its
input/output. Note that some applications, like AJA TV, have a provision for playing in the
background, so playback on one product could even continue when switching the
targeted device for use with another application. You can even feed the output from one
AJA product to another AJA product on the same system in such cases.
AJA TV Preferences, Continue Playback when AJA TV is in background
AJA TV optionally supports playback in the background; checkbox “Continue Playback when
AJA TV is in background.