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Since 1993, AJA Video has been a leading manufacturer of professional digital video solutions for the professional broadcast and post-production markets. AJA's desktop video products include uncompressed FireWire and PCI based QuickTime audio/video interfaces for both Standard and High Definition video.

AJA's converter products range from miniature stand-alone converters to a complete line of rack mount interface and conversion cards and frames. With headquarters located in Grass Valley, California, AJA Video designs and manufactures all of its products in the USA, with an extensive sales channel of dealers and systems integrators around the world. For further information, please contact us.  


KONA Cards For Every Application or Workflow

The KONA family is AJA's line of 10-bit uncompressed QuickTime cards for Video and Audio I/O on a Mac. KONAs were the first capture cards available for Final Cut Pro on Mac OS X and continue to lead the way with features that satisfy even the most advanced workflows. From the KONA LSe and its complete suite of analog and digital SD support to the KONA LHe, which bridges the SD and HD worlds, all the way to the industry leading KONA 3 with its unbeatable high-end features that include SD/HD, hardware up/down/cross-conversion, dual-link, and 2K support. A simple, affordable desktop G5 system and a KONA card brings you all the quality and function of a full-featured nonlinear editing suite at a fraction of the price. Clarity in sight and sound - that's the promise of KONA.

I/O Options
KONA cards all offer unsurpassed cable connectivity for a video/audio capture card. Simply plug in a supplied breakout cable and you're ready to communicate with most professional video and audio gear - with all video and audio connections pro's expect. For even more convenience, all KONAs can be equipped with an optional breakout box. KONA breakout boxes can be rackmounted or used on a desktop - like the KONA cards, they're both reliable and extremely high quality. All of this, combined with AJA's three-year warranty and world-class support, make KONA the logical choice for any and all professional work on the Mac.

AJA Video's IoHD
AJA’s new IoHD is the latest in the award-winning Io family of products—an effortless, transportable plug-in solution to working with HD and SD in Final Cut Pro 6 on a Macbook Pro or Mac Pro computer. With a single FireWire 800 connection, Io HD supports the amazing new Apple ProRes 422 Codec—natively, in hardware, to bring production-quality HD editing to laptops!

Io HD is the only device in the world that supports Apple ProRes 422 and Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) in hardware, enabling true 10-bit editing on an Apple laptop. With this high performance hardware and codec, you can work on the road with 720 and 1080 HD, all in full-raster 10 bit 4:2:2—and in realtime!

All of AJA's Io products have been co-developed with Apple for use with Final Cut Pro to deliver powerful video/audio capture, editing and video production - all in a single, integrated system. Each member of the family comes with special Final Cut Pro presets to facilitate ease of use.




Workflow That Works
Running on Windows XP™ and supporting the Adobe® Production Studio, and a wide variety of third-party software, the new XENA line of video and audio I/O cards is designed for serious editing, graphic and design professionals. Record, review and print SD/HD video with unmatched software capabilities.

Capture Made Perfect
Designed for Windows XP, XENA alows you to capture perfect HD/SD data from a variety of sources (digital and analog SD and HD decks, etc.) in a format on disk that fits your post-production workflow. For example, if your whole post-production pipeline is based on a file-per-frame format such as DPX, then you can capture film/video data directly as sequential DPX files, instead of having to write an AVI/QT file and then render to DPX files. File-per-frame workflows are no problem for XENA, with or without audio.

Flexibility
With XENA, you can record data directly from SD and HD decks, telecines and film scanners into any of the following file formats: DPX, Cineon, TGA,TIFF, BMP, AVI and QuickTime™. Got audio? XENA provides up to 16 audio tracks of embedded digital audio or multi-channel, as well as AES and analog support on some XENA models. Audio files can be mono or stereo, QuickTime or WAV.

The right XENA card lets you play back audio and HD/SD or SD-only video data from disk - even 2K - in any format you choose, including DPX, Cineon (LH/LHe only), TGA, TIFF, BMP, AVI and QuickTime. You can play back SD/HD material, at a variety of frame rates, on a high-resolution wide-screen monitor or digital projector. XENA allows you to play back files from disk in all supported formats. Full control over playback parameters is clearly laid out, including provisions for choosing a user-specified LUT.
XENA provides its own powerful stand-alone capture and playback application, AJA Machina™, that includes full VTR machine control. You can access any and all XENA supported file formats, video standards and video conversions with Machina's ultra-cool and easy-to-use interface. Captured files can be imported into virtually any software package that supports these file formats, such as 3D-animation programs, audio editing programs and much more. Plus, with Machina, you can accurately output to tape files exported from these same programs.

Powerful Plug-Ins
Not only does AJA’s XENA provide powerful capture and playback features in Machina, but it integrates them into a variety of graphics and visual-effects software applications to make operations even easier. Using plug-ins, sophisticated XENA features appear as if they were native to the software application user interfaces. Directly supported applications include:

- Adobe Premiere® Pro
- Adobe After Effects®
- Adobe PhotoShop®
- Autodesk Combustion®
- Eyeon Digital Fusion®

Adobe After Effects with XENA plug-ins, for example, will list three options in the file menu: AJA Capture, AJA Preview, and AJA Playback. Each of these three menu items, or modules, provides a dialog window that lets you follow your workflow from capturing media in a desired file format and previewing it from the timeline to see effects to playing it back from disk when you’re done rendering. These modules are directly available and integrated into After Effects...no hard-to-find control panels, no setup windows to open and close.

AJA Converters
At AJA, we build professional digital video solutions for the broadcast and post-production markets. Our engineering staff are broadcast video-industry experts that have created all of our products from the ground up expressely for video professionals.