The KONA LHi Capture Card from Aja is designed to bridge the gap between legacy analog devices and the latest products using 3Gbps SDI and HDMI by providing editing, monitoring, and mastering of pro-quality video in a powerful yet affordable system. This unit comes with a breakout cable, and can also be connected to an optional breakout box for rackmount I/O convenience and additional connectivity in the form of BNC digital AES/EBU connectors and RCA monitoring jacks.

KONA LHi uses the Aja Control Panel application to configure various hardware parameters and can also be used to auto-detect input format & frame rate and configure hardware-based up/down/cross-conversions

Use this device to interface with devices such as an HDMI-enabled camera, an HD-SDI VTR connection, and legacy analog video equipment

By way of the card's "Input PassThrough" mode, you can configure it to act as a converter within your computer, allowing you to embed or disembed audio or convert a signal like HDMI to HD-SDI

It features full, 10-bit, broadcast-quality, motion-adaptive SD to HD up-conversion, HD to HD cross-conversion, HD to SD down-conversion, and automatic HD/SD 12-bit component analog output

All of KONA LHi's conversions are hardware-based, therefore they are available all the time, even during ingest or playback

Outputs can be configured independently allowing you to have simultaneous HD and SD output, or two different types of HD (720 or 1080) output at the same time via cross-conversion

The card offers DVCPRO HD hardware acceleration

HDMI v1.3a with Deep Color at 30/36 bits per pixel on input & output is supported

It offers 12-bit HD analog component input & output

The card features 10-bit, hardware-based, real-time up/down/cross-conversions

12-bit SD analog component, composite, or S-Video input & output are available

Dynamic RT hardware acceleration is a standard feature

The card features (2) channels of balanced XLR AES digital audio and (2) channels of balanced XLR analog audio input & output

8-channel SDI embedded audio input & output is included

HD/SD Genlock and RS-422 machine control are standard features

It supports LTC input on the reference input

This solution is compatible with Final Cut Studio applications, Adobe applications, and most industry-standard applications

A breakout cable is included as a standard feature and a breakout box can be purchased separately