How can you elevate your professional video production workflow The KONA 4 OEM SD/HD/4K 8-Lane PCIe Card is the advanced, high-quality solution designed to meet the sophisticated needs of professional video editors and post-production experts. This innovative PCIe card offers unparalleled features for capturing and playing back video across a spectrum of formats, from SD to HD, 2K, and 4K resolutions.
With full 10-bit 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 sampling, the KONA 4 ensures fantastic image clarity and supports 12-bit color depth for the most demanding projects. Its HDR capabilities, including support for HDR10, HLG, PQ, and Dolby Vision, enable rich color delivery and dynamic range that brings your visuals to life with brighter whites and deeper blacks over both SDI and HDMI outputs.
The KONA 4 is compatible with a wide range of content creation applications, such as Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer, and FilmLight products, thanks to AJA's Control Room and Control Panel software, as well as SDK tools. This professional connectivity extends to bi-directional 3G-SDI connections, 16 channels of embedded audio over SDI, HDMI 2.0b monitoring output, LTC I/O, Genlock input, RS-422 control, and configurable 3 x BNC SD/HD analog video output. The K3G-Box option further enhances connectivity, offering additional AES audio channels and convenient access to all video and audio connections.
Optimized for the new Apple M1 chip, the KONA 4 provides native support for AJA macOS drivers and application plug-ins, ensuring seamless integration with the latest Mac Pro systems and macOS versions, including Big Sur, Catalina, and Mojave. The card's powerful 4K support allows direct output from editing systems to 4K projectors or monitors, including High Frame Rate (HFR) support at 50/60 fps for the most demanding workflows.
For augmented reality (AR) applications, the KONA 4 excels in capturing real-time footage over SDI from high-quality cameras, integrating with virtual environments created by Unreal Engine, and outputting the composite in real time. The built-in hardware downstream keyer simplifies the process of overlaying graphics and images on the input video.
The KONA 4 is not just a piece of hardware; it's backed by AJA's legendary support, ensuring that any issues encountered are resolved swiftly and effectively. With compatibility across a range of operating systems, including Linux Ubuntu, Redhat/CentOS, and Windows 10, the KONA 4 is the versatile, professional choice for video capture and playback that will keep you at the forefront of video production technology.
