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Chapter 3: Operation
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Using KONA LHe Plus with Professional Video /Audio Software
After you install the KONA LHe Plus software and any AJA plug-ins to support your choice of
3rd-party software, you’re then ready to begin capturing and playing back video and audio.
Go here to look for AJA plug-ins and docu
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entation for your favorite 3rd-party software
applications:
http://www.aja.co
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/en/support/downloads/
Once you’ve installed all the AJA software as detailed in Chapter 2, you’ll find the AJA Control
Panel application installed on your co
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puter.
Using The AJA Control Panel
The AJA Control Panel is a software application that provides a si
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ple visual way to see how
the KONA LHe Plus card is currently configured and then
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ake changes as desired. Settings—
both what you changed and didn’t—can be saved as a snapshot for recall at anyti
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e. This lets
you save settings associated with all your frequent tasks; then as you switch tasks you don’t
have to spend extra ti
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e constantly resetting card configurations—just load the previously
saved settings for each task.
One thing you’ll notice instantly about the Control Panel is that it represents a visual block
diagra
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of how the card is set. The current status, input and output settings, up/down/cross-
conversion, and
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any other details can be viewed as a color-coded block diagra
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in the
Control Panel.
Control Panel Basics
Although the KONA LHe Plus card auto-configures depending on the inputs present, and the
Control Panel intuitively shows at a glance
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uch about what the card is doing, there is even
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ore infor
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ation presented that
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ay not be obvious. To ensure you
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ake the
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ost of the
software, run the AJA Control Panel application and look at its display. Then refer to the
“Basics” described here to fully understand what you’re seeing and learn how to view and
change the KONA LHe Plus syste
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configuration.
Note:
The KONA Control Panel also works with other KONA cards, Io HD and Io Express.
However, the actual features and screens displayed differ slightly since the board feature
sets differ.
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