AJA KONA 3G, Installation And Operation Manual

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KONA 3G Installation and Operation Manual — Features
3D Stereoscopic Workflow
KONA 3G offers you the simplest path through 3D stereoscopic workflows.
Through SDI, you can output Discrete Left and Right Eye feeds with a simple Stereo
button choice in the AJA control panel. Additionally, muxed stereo output is possible
using a single SDI output. AJA hardware and software works in close collaboration with
CineForm's Neo3D software tools and CineForm codec to allow stereoscopic editorial and
viewing when working with Apple's Final Cut Pro or Adobe's CS5.
Through it's HDMI 1.4a output, KONA 3G makes it possible to connect to affordable 3D-
capable monitors for stereoscopic monitoring.
Broadcast-Quality Conversion
KONA 3G features hardware-based full 10-bit broadcast quality motion adaptive SD to HD
upconversion, HD to SD downconversion and HD to HD crossconversion. The quality of
the conversion features found in the KONA 3G is virtually identical to AJA's award winning
stand-alone converter products used throughout the post production market. The KONA
3G built-in upconverter uses a a full 10-bit path, fully motion adaptive de-interlacing, and
large multi-point digital interpolators. Downconversion uses large multi-point digital
interpolators, anti-alias filtering and interpolation.
Crossconversion 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 upconverting from a standard definition FCP project to an HD
deliverable.
KONA 3G Audio
KONA 3G supports 8-channel 24-bit 48kHz AES audio via BNC connections on the
supplied breakout cable—or with the optional K3G-Box,16-channels of AES audio.
KONA 3G’s high-quality input sample-rate conversion on AES inputs eliminates the need
for audio source synchronization. Sample rate converters auto-lock to any AES input, 32-
96kHz, and then convert it to 24-bit 48kHZ audio, locked to internal KONA 3G video.
Sample rate conversion is done at very high quality (over 120db THD).
Dual Link
KONA 3G supports Dual Link HD-SDI (4:4:4). KONA 3G supports the ingest and output of
SMPTE-372M compliant 4:4:4 RGB video and high-bandwidth 4:2:2 1080p 50, 1080p
59.94, and 1080p 60 at 10-bit.
2K Workflow Support
The KONA 3G 2K path offers potentially significant cost and labor savings over a tape-
based approach to a 2K workflow. In a unique development for customers on the Apple
platform, users can go straight from telecine to disk with 2K media and eliminate steps
requiring the use of tape stock and then the digitizing of those tapes for the nonlinear
editor. 2K telecine to KONA 3G saves time and steps in the process by directly and
simultaneously creating 2K DPX files and 2K QuickTime reference movies. Material can be
played out at 2K via HSDL (High Speed Data Link), offering further synergy with other 2K
products, such as projectors or DDRs, currently available in the market.
Additionally, KONA 3G allows 2K files to be viewed on HD 1080PsF supported video
monitors, lowering the price barrier for recording to tape and viewing 2K material. This
1080 HD playout can be down-converted to SD in real time, giving the 2K DI pipeline a
powerful solution for multi-format video playout of 2K material.
By generating 2K DPX files during the digitize phase, different parts of the process (for
example, delivery of full-resolution media of shots intended for visual effects) can be