AJA KONA 4 Installation & Operation Manual

16, KONA v12.3 www.aja.com 16 SDI inputs and outputs support video and 8-channel embedded 24-bit digital audio. Use SDI wherever possible for the best quality 10-bit uncompressed video input, capture, and output. If peripheral equipment has a variety of inputs/outputs, look to see if…

24, KONA v12.3 www.aja.com 24 Cabling the System When installing your system, you’ll make video and audio input/output connections. These connectors are described individually in Chapter 1. The following diagrams illustrate and describe system interconnection for the three KONA models. KON…

51, KONA v12.3 www.aja.com 51 DS Keyer Screen The KONA 4/3G have a hardware-based downstream keyer that is ideal for putting logos, “bugs” or other video material with an alpha channel on top of video being played out or printed to tape. A typical application would be putting a television st…

36, KONA v12.3 www.aja.com 36 Conversion Icons: When an input or output is a different standard than the framebuffer, the KONA card may be up-, down-, or cross-converting the signal to the selected standard. This may be automatic, because it's detected an input signal that d…

49, AJA KONA 4 KONA v12.3 www.aja.com 49 Conversion Screen (Mac OS only) In the Mac OS version of the AJA Control Panel, this screen offers controls that determine how the card behaves with 3rd-party applications. Figure 32. AJA Control Panel, Conversion Screen Conversion Screen Settings Software Conversi…

86, KONA v12.3 www.aja.com 86 Down-conversion •Hardware 10-bit • Anamorphic: full-screen • Letterbox: image is reduced with black top and bottom added to image area with the aspect ratio preserved • Crop: image is cropped to fit new screen size Cross-conversion •Hardware 10-…