XENA Overview
Designed for Windows and supporting Adobe® Production Premium, along with a wide variety of 3rd-party software, the XENA line of video and audio I/O cards are designed for serious editing, graphics and design professionals. Record, review, and print SD/HD/2K video with unmatched capabilities.
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Capture made perfect
Designed for Windows®, XENA™ cards support a wide variety of workflows, from analog to combined HD/SD, Dual Link, HSDL and 2K. XENA cards ship with AJA's Machina™, our powerful stand-alone deck-control, playback and capture application, along with a host of powerful plug-ins for seamless integration with leading editing, graphics and effects applications, including Adobe CS4 - Premiere® Pro, Adobe After Effects®, Adobe Photoshop®, plus Autodesk® Combustion® and Eyeon Fusion®. Optimal file format support is offered in QuickTime and AVI, as well as in file-per-frame formats.
Flexibility
With XENA, you can record data directly from SD and HD cameras, decks, telecines, and film scanners into any of the following file formats: DPX, Cineon, TGA, TIFF, BMP, AVI and QuickTime™. Got audio? Up to 16 tracks of embedded digital audio are supported. AES and Analog support is included as well on some XENA models. Audio files can be mono or stereo, QuickTime or WAV. Choose the right XENA to playback HD/SD or SD-only video and audio data from disk-even 2K-in any format you choose, including DPX, Cineon, TGA, TIFF, BMP, AVI and QuickTime. Playback 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 the playback parameters are clearly laid out, including provisions for choosing a user-specified LUT.
XENA provides its own stand-alone powerful capture/playback application, AJA Machina™, that includes full VTR machine control. Access to any and all XENA supported file formats, video standards and video conversions is all presented in a very cool and easy-to-use interface. Captured files can then be imported into virtually any software package that supports these XENA file formats, such as compositing programs, 3D animation programs, audio editing programs and much more. With Machina, you can also output to tape the files exported from these same programs.
Machina™
Machina is AJA's powerful capture, playback, output, and control application. It is included with XENA 2K, LH, and LS cards, and provides users with great capture and output capabilities. Machina provides users with a vast array of uncompressed capture options ranging from Quicktime to DPX along with DV25, DV50, and DVCPRO HD for compressed capture. It provides users with the ability to choose from many capture options including bit depth, color space, and audio capture options. Machina can also output in all the same formats which it can capture. All these capture and output options are complimented with deck control.
Machina has great desktop preview features. Users can preview their files full screen on their desktop display at various zoom levels, creating an alternative for frame by frame viewing when no additional monitor is available. In addition it affords the user the power to apply 1D LUT's on output, to output video+key for monitoring or mixing, and the ability to key in static graphics on selected XENA cards. Furthermore, Machina can be used to tap your XENA card's format conversion abilities during capture, output, or monitoring. This huge feature set makes Machina an invaluable tool for film and video professionals, making it a useful addition to virtually any workflow.
