Product Overview
The most flexible card for analog and digital Standard and High Definition workflows, the AJA KONA® LHi bridges the gap between legacy analog devices and the latest 3G SDI and HDMI v1.3a enabled products to provide editing, monitoring and mastering of professional quality video in an affordable, powerful, easy to use product.
Connecting to everything from an HDMI-enabled camera to an HD-SDI VTR, KONA LHi offers a full host of no-compromise features, including 10-bit or 8-bit uncompressed video, 2-channel AES digital audio and 8-channel SDI embedded digital audio, analog composite or S-video or SD/HD component video I/O, and 2-channel balanced analog audio I/O.
KONA LHi's HDMI 1.3a support allows you to feed a "deep color" monitor with glorious 10-bit video, banishing video banding and preserving your gradients and rich color palette. Incoming HDMI signals can also be passed to KONA LHi's SDI output for use in more professional environments.
Features
- Supports 2K and HD ingest and output at frame rates up to 30p
- Real time up, down, cross-conversion with pristine 10-bit quality
- 3G-SDI and 1.5G-SDI formats supported
- Component Video I/O, RS-422 Control on supplied breakout cable
- HDMI v1.3 (HD 50/60p)
- 2-ch AES/EBU, 8-ch embedded HDMI, and 8-ch embedded SDI digital audio I/O
- 2-channel balanced analog audio I/O
- Extend external connectivity incl LTC, Ref and RS-422 with KLHi-BOX breakout box option
- macOS, Windows and Linux support
- Compatible with leading creative apps
- Three year warranty
Specifications
- Video Input
- Digital:
- 3G/HD/SD SDI
- SMPTE-259/292/296/424
- HDMI v1.3
- 30/36 bits/pixel
- RGB or YUV
- 2.25Gbps
- SD
- HD
- 1080p50/60
- Analog:
- Composite/S-Video(Y/C): NTSC, NTSCJ, PAL 12-bit A/D 2x oversampling, 3 line adaptive comb filter decoding
- SD Component: SMPTE/EBUN10, Betacam 525 line, Betacam 525J, RGB, 12-bit A/D, 2x oversampling
- HD Component: YPbPr, 12-bit A/D
- Video Formats
- 525i 29.97
- 625i 25
- 720p 50
- 720p 59.94
- 720p 60
- 1080i 25
- 1080i 29.97
- 1080i 30
- 1080PsF 23.98
- 1080PsF 24
- 1080P 23.98
- 1080P 24
- 1080P 25
- 1080P 29.97
- 1080P 30
- 1080P 50
- 1080P 59.94
- 1080P 60
- Video Output
- Digital:
- 3GB SD and HD-SDI
- SMPTE-259/292/296/424
- HDMI v1.3
- 30/36 bits/pixel
- RGB or YUV
- 2.25Gbps
- SD
- HD
- 1080p50/60
- Analog:
- Composite/S-Video(Y/C): NTSC, NTSCJ, PAL, 12-bit D/A, 8x oversampling
- SD Component: SMPTE/EBU N10, Betacam 525 line, Betacam 525J, RGB, 12-bit D/A, 8x oversampling
- HD Component: YPbPr, RGB, 12-bit D/A, 2x oversampling
- Audio
- Digital: 24-bit SDI embedded audio, 8 channel, 48kHz,24-bit AES audio, 2 channel, 48kHz, 16-bit capable
- Analog: 24-bit A/D and D/A, 2 channel balanced XLR, 48kHz, +24dBu full scale digital, +/-0.2dB 20 to 20kHz frequency response
- Up-Conversion
- Hardware 10-bit
- Anamorphic: full-screen
- Pillar box 4:3: results in a 4:3 image in center of screen with black sidebars
- Zoom 14:9: results in a 4:3 image zoomed slightly to fill a 14:9 image with black side bars
- Zoom Letterbox: results in image zoomed to fill full screen
- Zoom Wide: results in a combination of zoom and horizontal stretch to fill a 16:9 screen; this setting can introduce a small aspect ratio change
- 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-bit
- 1080i to 720P
- 720P to 1080i
- 720P to 1080PsF
SD to SD Aspect Ratio Conversion
- Letterbox: This transforms SD anamorphic material to a letter boxed image
- H Crop: Will produce a horizontally stretched effect on the image; transforms anamorphic
- SD to full frame
- SD Pillar box: Will produce an image in the center of the screen with black borders on the left and right sides and an anamorphized image in the center
- V Crop: Will transform SD letterbox material to an anamorphic image
- Reference Input
- Color Black or Tri-Level sync (Ref input is looping/non-terminating on the KLHi-Box; terminated on supplied breakout cable)
- Machine Control:
- RS-422, Sony 9-pin protocol (via DB-25 breakout cable or optional KLHi-Box (sold separately)
- 9-pin D-connector pinout is as follows:
- Pin 1=GND
- Pin 2=RX-
- Pin 3=TX+
- Pin 4=GND
- Pin 5=No Connection
- Pin 6=GND
- Pin 7=RX+
- Pin 8=TX-
- Pin 9=GND
- Shell=GND
