AJA KONA 3, Инструкция по установке и эксплуатации

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Photoshop, Apple Motion, Autodesk Smoke for Mac and more. Powerful AJA utilities, Easy
Setups, and plug-ins round out the Mac environment, providing support for all popular Mac
application workflows.
On a PC
KONA for PC software allows Windows to access the hardware power of your KONA within
major editing and graphics applications. Other software vendors have also provided
integrated support for KONA in their own PC applications through direct collaboration with
AJA. Choose the right KONA card for any format you need, including DPX, Cineon, TGA, TIFF,
BMP, AVI and QuickTime. You can playback and master material, at a variety of frame rates,
on a high-resolution widescreen monitor or digital projector. Custom AJA software allows
full control over your playback, parameters are clearly laid out, including provisions for
choosing a user-specified LUT. Supplied AJA plug-ins integrate your KONA card into a
variety of graphics/visual-effects software applications to make operations even easier to
use. Using AJA plug-ins, sophisticated features appear as if they were native to the software
application user interfaces.
Directly supported applications include:
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Avid® Media Composer® 6, Symphony® 6, and NewsCutter® 10
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Adobe Premiere® Pro
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Adobe After Effects®
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Adobe Photoshop®
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Eyeon Fusion®
KONA 3G users will also find the powerful AJA Control Panel automatically installed with
their KONA package. The AJA Control Panel provides easy I/O configuration monitoring,
audio/video source selection, conversion and control of KONA 3G within the overall MacOS
or Windows 7 environment.
Understanding Typical Workflows
KONA 3 allows more workflow flexibility than ever before in post production. Users can
select a variety of formats, frame rates and codecs for capture and editorial manipulation.
KONA 3 hardware has a full array of connectors for interfacing with VTRs, DDRs and other
devices—with all outputs active simultaneously. Capture can range from compressed DV to
uncompressed dual link HD and even 2K. Media can be stored on disk as:
• offline quality at low bit rates
• on-line quality at moderate bit rates
• or with the highest quality 8- or 10-bit uncompressed quality
As quality and codecs improve, the lines between offline and online are blurring. For
example, with the DVCPRO HD codec editing in the codec became possible, providing very
high quality results (true HD editing) at very low data rates, in some cases as lower than 6
MB sec. Compare this to 100MB/sec and higher for uncompressed HD formats, and you can
immediately see the benefits.
Following are summaries of the most common workflows, listing data rates and relative
quality levels. Some workflows require a RAID array and some will work using the host
Apple computer's internal system drive—it's noted where this is supported in the following
discussions.