KONA and Io Utility Software and Add-ons Overview
OSX Utitlities to save time and enhance your workflows
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The KONA and Io product lines all offer incredible software to complement the legendary AJA hardware: custom QuickTime drivers optimized for AJA's hardware, plus the flexible and intuitive AJA Control Panel for simple control of your system's many powerful features. Beyond these core software applications, AJA also provides many software utilities that give you advanced options not found on competing capture products. All of these utillities can be downloaded, free of charge, off the corresponding support web page for your AJA product.
AJA utilities are Universal Binary-they'll work on Mac Pro, Mac Book Pro and older Macs.
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AJA VTR Xchange Application
The application allows users to capture, playback and record video/audio to any deck that can be interfaced with AJA’s KONA 3, LHi/LHe, LS/LSe, and Io capture/playback products. The software provides RS-422 deck control via a user-supplied cable connecting the KONA or Io and VTR. Other features include frame grabbing and user-selectable support for RP-188.
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AJA Data Rate Calculator Application
The AJA Data Rate Calculator is a useful application for determining how much storage space on a harddrive or disk array will be required for a given format and frame rate. In the pictured example, the calculator is used to determine how much storage space would be required for one hour of 720p 59.94 in Apple ProRes 422 (HQ). This application may be used on any machine, not just machines that have AJA hardware installed; keeping a copy on a laptop can be a useful tool for doing quick computations to see if storage capacity meets format and frame rate demands.
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AJA System Test
The AJA System Test is a complementary application to the AJA Data Rate Calculator. Where the Data Rate Calculator determines how much drive capacity is required for a given format and frame rate, the AJA System Test can be used to determine if a selected storage device provides sufficient bandwidth for the selected media and its associated format and frame rate. In the pictured example, the drive performance is fairly consistent in terms of write and read speeds as denoted by the graph, but the drive is unlikely to support formats beyond compressed HD (DVCProHD or HDV) and some uncompressed SD formats due to the low performance numbers. The AJA System Test should only be considered one tool when evaluating storage performance—not the sole criteria. Many factors should be considered when selecting suitable storage. For example, the performance of the drive in the cited example might be more than sufficient for an offline editorial workflow.
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AJA TV
The AJA TV application is a simple QuickTime player that automatically enables the video output of the AJA KONA or IoHD products. This can be useful for quickly screening a clip or for easy looping of a QuickTime movie. The simple interface can also be configured to show QuickTime clip information and details. In the example pictured, the media is an Apple ProRes 422 movie that is 720p at 59.94fps as denoted by the information provided below the player.
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AJA KONA QTToDPXTranslator Version 3
This utility takes a 10-bit RGB QuickTime movie (e.g. one that was captured via KONA 3 DualLink) and turns it into a series of DPX files (the DPX file format is a common interchange format for high-end film and graphics workstations).
Note: AJA KONA QTToDPXTranslator is provided as part of the system installation for all KONA cards—it is not a separate download. >>Download Latest Version |
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AJA KONA DPXToQTTranslator Version 3
This utility does the opposite of the above: it turns a folder full of DPX files into a KONA 10-bit RGB QuickTime movie.
Note: the AJA KONA DPXToQTTranslator is provided as part of the system installation for all KONA cards—it is not a separate download. >>Download Latest Version |
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AJA Macintosh QuickTime™ Codec v4.0
If you do not have a KONA card in your Macintosh or have an Io HD, but need to access AJA QuickTime media files, you can use this AJA QuickTime codec to work with the files.
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AJA Mac Plug-ins for Adobe CS4
AJA Mac Plug-ins for Adobe provide powerful audio and video capture and playback features to Adobe applications. They integrate directly into the look and feel of the software, making operations easier than ever before. With AJA plug-ins, sophisticated features appear as if they were native to the application’s user interfaces. Directly supported applications include: Adobe Premiere® Pro, Adobe After Effects®, and Adobe Photoshop®.
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AJA Control Panel
The AJA Control Panel is a powerful software interface for controlling the AJA hardware whether it is the KONA cards or the IoHD. The AJA Control Panel can be used to configure hardware based up/down/crossconversions among other functions. In the example pictured here, the AJA IoHD is outputting 720p 59.94 HD from SDI 1, HDMI and the component analog output, while simultaneously providing an SD 525i 29.97 output in a letterbox aspect ratio on SDI 2. Users can even access the AJA Control Panel without leaving the application they are working with, such as Final Cut Pro, by simply holding down the Command key while clicking in the Control Panel user interface.
Note: the AJA Control Panel is provided as part of the system installation for all KONA cards and the IoHD—it is not a separate download. >>Install the latest version for your KONA model. |
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