. Published: 1/10/13 Installation and Operation Guide B e c a u s e m a t t e r s. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders. Notice Copyright © 2013 AJA Video, Inc. All rights reserved. All information in this manual is subject to change without notice. No part of the document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording, without the express written permission of AJA Inc.

If a product proves to be defective during this warranty period, AJA Video, at its option, will either repair the defective product without charge for parts and labor, or will provide a replacement in exchange for the defective product. Using KONA LHe Plus with Professional Video /Audio Software. Notes on using multiple AJA Products. Edge Shot Photo Here Overview The AJA KONA LHe Plus supports both HD/SD analog and digital I/O for video and audio, providing maximum capability for both Mac OSX and Windows 7 workstations.

KONA LHe Plus simplifies integrating analog and digital signals into a single workflow and multiple output options to ensure you can deliver whatever formats are required. Features The KONA LHe Plus card offers a large number of unique features for optimum quality, ease of use, and support for a wide variety of workflows and environments. KONA LHe Plus provides flexible standard definition and high definition capture and playback, a hardware down-converter for working in mixed SD/HD environments—and it supports both analog.

Software On a Mac AJA KONA for Mac drivers are optimized for use on OS X, with applications and advanced AJA hardware capabilities controlled easily at-a-glance in the application you're using. KONA for Mac software integrates within the native environment where used – whether Avid Media Composer, Apple Final Cut Pro, Adobe Creative Suite, Autodesk Smoke for Mac, or a wide array of other Mac applications. Data rate: 12 MB/second high definition—supported by internal system drive Quality: Excellent KONA LHe Plus has hardware support for capture from HD-SDI to the DVCPRO HD codec. KONA's hardware also takes some of the DVCPRO HD codec processing load off the CPU.

S-Video (Y/C) cables, so the HDV device must have an analog component HD output. The KONA LHe Plus also has the ability to ingest analog audio, so the analog audio outputs of the HDV devices can be sent to the KONA card as well. Fibre Channel, or ATA drive array Quality: Excellent The native storage format for KONA LHe Plus is uncompressed media which offers the highest quality available.

Capturing in uncompressed results in no compression artifacts, and video is sampled over the full raster at a 4:2:2 rate. KONA LHe Plus Installation & Operation Guide — Cable Connections Cable Connections KONA LHe Plus offers unsurpassed cable connectivity for a video/audio capture card. Connections are made via a supplied breakout cable and three BNCs on the KONA LHe Plus Card endplate. Using the Breakout. Using KL-box The KL-box attaches to the KONA LHe Plus card via cables that attach to the back of the KL- box.

These cables are supplied with the KL-Box (one 60-pin to 60-pin, and one 3-BNC to 3- BNC). When you purchase the optional KL-Box, you get two-channel unbalanced audio output (2 RCA Jacks)—not available with the standard cable. Cables and KL-box SDI Input and Outputs BNC connectors are provided on the KONA LHe Plus card endplate for one SD-SDI or HD-SDI input and two SDI outputs (independent of the input). The SDI input and outputs support video and embedded 24-bit digital audio. Use SDI wherever possible for the best quality 10-bit uncompressed video input, capture and output.

AJA Control Panel. Reference Video A single BNC on the standard KONA LHe Plus cable—or two BNC connectors on KL-box (it loops through)—allow you to synchronize KONA LHe Plus outputs to your house analog reference video signal (or black burst). Chapter 2: Installation Installation Overview The installation and set up of a KONA LHe Plus is very simple. All of the steps of installation and configuration are documented in this chapter, summarized as follows: 1. Unpack the shipping box 2.

If not previously installed on your Mac Pro, ensure that your third-party video editing software is installed as detailed in its user documentation. KONA LHe Plus is shipped with a CD containing system software and an Installation and User manual (a PDF on the CD), and a cable. If you purchased the optional KL-box breakout Contents box, it ships with its own set of cables and instructions for connection to the KONA LHe Plus card. KONA LHe Plus Installation & Operation Guide — Installing the KONA LHe Installing the KONA LHe Plus Card into Mac Pro 1. Place the Mac Pro in a well-lit convenient area, where you will have easy access to the chassis access door. Remove the KONA LHe Plus card from its protective anti-static bag; place the card on top of the bag. KONA LHe Plus Card 5.

Visually locate the PCIe slots inside the Mac chassis. The slots are numbered along the left side. To determine which slot works best for your Mac Pro model, visit the AJA website (see “Installation Overview”. Remove the KONA card from its protective anti-static bag; place the card on top of the bag. To install the KONA card and RAID controller card (SCSI or Fibre Channel), refer to the AJA website for the latest installation updates at the URL provided (see “Installation Overview”. Open the card retainer bar on the left side of the chassis cardcage.

Remove the card edge access cover from the desired slot where you will be inserting the KONA card. Holding the KONA card by the card edge plate and an outside edge, carefully insert the KONA card by rocking it slowly into the slot.

KONA LHe Plus Installation & Operation Guide — Cabling the System Cabling the System System Video/Audio When installing your system, you’ll make video and audio input/output connections. These connectors are explained individually in chapter 2. Here, system interconnection is shown and Cable Connections described. VTR (Digital Betacam etc.): one from KONA LH SDI In to the VTR SDI Out, and one from KONA LHe Plus SDI Out (1 or 2) to the VTR SDI In.

The KONA LHe Plus SDI connections have embedded audio so the VTR must be configured accordingly. First ensure that third-party editing software is installed as detailed in its user documentation. Next, navigate to the AJA support website for a download of the very latest software for LHe Plus or use the CD-ROM supplied with your KONA card. The installation package contains the necessary software drivers and AJA Control Panel. In the window, locate the package file; it has an icon that looks like a box and has a “.pkg” or “.mpkg” suffix.

Note: Files ending in the “.pkg” and “.mpkg” suffix are OS X installer files. These launch the OS X installer and tell it where and what to install on your system. KONA LHe Plus Installation & Operation Guide — Installing KONA LHe Plus 8. The next screen lets you know that the installer will check your Mac Pro to ensure it has the hardware and software resources required (see“Installation Overview” on page 11). 10.The next screen allows you to install the complete package of drivers and setups available or compose a custom installation. Select a Destination Drive For the KONA LHe Plus Software 11.At the next screen, click the Install button to place the software on the default drive or click Change Install Location to select a different drive. Click the Continue Installation button to proceed.

Restart OS X Reminder Prompt The installer will run and put all the necessary KONA LHe Plus drivers, AJA Control Panel, presets and software on the desired hard drive. When it has completed installation, a final screen will be displayed announcing that “software was successfully installed.”. Software Installation Procedure Locate the AJA KONA Software download or CD ROM packaged with your system and follow the procedure below to install the required software on the host system. The KONA for PC software is intended for Windows 7 64-bit workstations. KONA LHe Plus Installation & Operation Guide — Installing KONA LHe Plus Install Wizard The KONA installation program will launch and extract the necessary KONA drivers for installation on the desired hard drive.

Install Wizard Welcome When you see the Welcome page, click “Next” to view the KONA license agreement. Read the KONA license agreement and check the Agreement box to accept. You will be asked to choose the type of installation you would like to perform. Installation Type If you don’t have all the KONA supported products installed on your workstation, you may choose to perform a Custom installation (default) and select only the software necessary for your applications. KONA LHe Plus Installation & Operation Guide — Installing KONA LHe Plus Custom Installation Menu You may deselect an Item for installation by using the pulldown to make it unavailable.

Custom Selections Pulldown Menu. Use the second level options choose the specific drivers and plugins you would like installed. Disabled selections are marked with a red X. Before clicking Next to install, you can verify your disk space availability by clicking the Disk Usage button. Workstation Disk Usage Display To return to the installation click OK. When the installation is completed, a final screen will be displayed announcing that “Setup has finished installing AJA KONA on your computer. ” Click on the Finish button after the installation is complete.

The AJA Retail installation requires you restart the computer after installation to activate the KONA card. Updating KONA LHe Plus Firmware When you update your KONA LHe Plus software by downloading new versions from the aja.com website, it is possible that some versions may also require a firmware update to update the software stored in non-volatile memory on the board. Always carefully read the release notes that accompany each version to be installed. KONA LHe Plus Installation & Operation Guide — Updating KONA LHe Plus Firmware Update Warning Screen 5. After the firmware installation completes, you’ll be asked to Shut Down the computer, wait for two seconds, and then start up again.

Firmware Update Power-down Screen Important: A Restart of the computer will not load the new firmware—click Shut. For video stability and proper system operation, it’s always best to genlock all equipment to house sync. Although genlock is not absolutely required for KONA LHe Plus or your system, better quality and repeatable operation will be experienced by doing so.

Usually, this means using a black burst generator output looped through the system. Using KONA LHe Plus with Professional Video /Audio Software After you install the KONA LHe Plus software and any AJA plug-ins to support your choice of 3rd-party software, you’re then ready to begin capturing and playing back video and audio. Text Color—Colored text in the block diagram provides an indication of signal type and what the KONA LHe Plus is doing. Text in blue shows the values automatically selected, while text in black shows values that have been manually selected.

Text in red shows that the KONA is not detecting a signal or cannot negotiate with the attached device (even if it can’t detect an output device, it still shows the signal it is outputting). It is important to realize that inside the computer, many applications can use the KONA LHe Plus (as you switch from window to window) and it may not always be obvious which is currently controlling it. The AJA Control Panel displays the name of the application controlling the card in red text at the top right of the Control Panel Screen. Conversion Icon—when an input or output is a different standard than the framebuffer then the KONA LHe Plus may be down-converting the signal to the proper standard. This may be automatic, because it's detected an input signal that differs from the standard currently selected, or because you've explicitly told it to convert. KONA LHe Plus Installation & Operation Guide — Using The AJA Control Panel Control Screen The KONA LHe Plus can be controlled by various software applications running on a host Mac and can be used as a Macintosh Desktop extension. The Control Screen is where you select how the card directs video and is used by application software.

Freerun: In this mode, KONA LHe Plus generates sync without an external reference source Ref In: Directs KONA LHe Plus to use the Ref Video source for sync (usually an analog black burst video signal) Video In: Directs KONA LHe Plus to use whichever video input source has been selected in the Inputs Screen for sync. KONA LHe Plus Installation & Operation Guide — Using The AJA Control Panel Formats Screen The Formats screen shows the video format currently in use by the KONA LHe Plus framebuffer (called the Primary Format) and allows you to change it.

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All throughout the Control Panel, choices are always presented based on what KONA LHe Plus can do with the signals available and the inputs/outputs selected. Down (Conversion)—for down-conversion the following choices are available: Anamorphic: full-screen “stretched” image Letterbox: image is reduced with black top and bottom added to image area with the aspect ratio preserved Crop: image is cropped to fit new screen size.

KONA LHe Plus Installation & Operation Guide — Using The AJA Control Panel Input Select Screen Setup your Video and Audio Input Sources AJA Control Panel, Input Select Screen On the Inputs screen you can view the currently selected video and audio input sources and map audio sources to the channels supported by your third-party editing application (more on this later). The SDI Out screen shows the current settings for the two SDI outputs. If an input/output has no video, it will be indicated on the block diagram (“No Video”). AJA Control Panel, SDI Out Screen SDI Output Screen Settings Information that can appear includes the following items. You can view the current setting or use a pulldown menu to select: Primary—when selected, this indicates that an SDI output (SDI Output 1 or SDI Output 2) is.

KONA LHe Plus Installation & Operation Guide — Using The AJA Control Panel Video+Key—when selected, this selects that both SDI outputs will be used for a Video plus an associated video Key (hole cut). This will be reflected in the block diagram by showing the two lines grouped together going from the framebuffer to the SDI 1 and SDI 2 outputs. Analog Out Screen KONA LHe Plus provides a high-quality analog component or composite output, generally used for monitoring. This screen shows the current settings for that analog output, and allows you to re-configure it when desired. AJA Control Panel, Analog Out Screen Analog Out Screen Settings Select—Primary or Secondary (conversion).

KONA LHe Plus Installation & Operation Guide — Using The AJA Control Panel Video Setup Screen The KONA LHe Plus Analog Black level and QuickTime Video Output Display Filter are configured here. AJA Control Panel, Video Setup Screen Setup Screen Settings Analog Black Level—choices in the black Level pulldown menu are only available for the two. When not set, this checkbox tells the KONA card to get the audio gain setting from the application. Analog Audio Monitor Level—when a KL-Box is connected to KONA LHe Plus, the button selected determines the audio level that will appear at the Analog Audio Output RCA connector pair (“FSD”. KONA LHe Plus Installation & Operation Guide — Using The AJA Control Panel Conversion Screen The Conversion screen is used to set frame, field, and color space conversion options. AJA Control Panel, Conversion Screen Conversion Screen Settings Pause On—these two choices determine what happens when an editing application is paused in stop mode: Full Frame: both fields are displayed resulting in some jitter while paused.

DS Keyer Screen The KONA LHe Plus has a hardware-based downstream keyer that is ideal for putting logos, “bugs” or other video material with an alpha channel on top of video being played out or printed to tape. A typical application would be putting a television station's call letters or channel over program video content. KONA LHe Plus Installation & Operation Guide — Using The AJA Control Panel Timecode Screen The timecode is used for both monitoring the RP-188 timecode embedded in the digital data stream and for selecting a timecode offset (if required) for the attached VTR (connected to the KONA LHe Plus RS-422 port)—and sent during assemble-edit mode. Timecode Burn-in—this pulldown selects whether the timecode value is “burned-in” on video output from KONA LHe Plus. If set to “OFF”, timecode will not be keyed over the video. If set to “timecode”, then the timecode value will be keyed over the output video.

KONA LHe Plus Installation & Operation Guide — Using The AJA Control Panel Presets Screen After configuring the AJA Control Panel screens, you can then save all your settings as a snapshot for later recall—called a preset. In this way, you can organize presets for all your typical tasks, eliminating time-robbing manual reconfiguration each time. Firmware Screen Use the Firmware Screen to access the firmware install screen. Click install to erase current firmware and load the firmware version contained in your current driver installation. Note the Installation message shown below. Firmware Update You will be required to power-cycle your computer to finish the update.

Update Completed. KONA LHe Plus Installation & Operation Guide — Using The AJA Control Panel Info Screen The Information screen shows the KONA LHe Plus software files that have been installed on your system. This information may be needed if you talk to an AJA Customer Service representative to determine if files are missing or need updating. Adobe Premiere Pro or AJA TV, the AJA Control Panel in-use message will report the change by displaying the new application in control. If no in-use message is displayed, the AJA Control Panel is in control of KONA. If no QuickTime applications are running, the board’s state is determined by the AJA Control Panel.

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KONA LHe Plus Installation & Operation Guide — Using Multiple AJA Products Using Multiple AJA Products Starting with the v7.5 drivers, more than one AJA product can be used with your host computer. Using the AJA Control Panel application, you can choose which installed product an application uses for input/output. Using 8-bit Versus 10-bit Video While both 8- and 10-bit uncompressed video are capable of providing excellent quality broadcast video, 10-bit represents a significantly higher quality and is preferable in many situations.

Because 10-bit video has four times the numerical precision when compared to 8-bit, it has a signal-to-noise ratio 12 db higher than 8-bit video. Chapter 4: Troubleshooting If You Run Into Problems One useful way to find the source of problems is to isolate your system to the smallest size where the problem still occurs and then note all the symptoms. This serves to eliminate areas not involved in the problem and makes finding the problem easier. If the problem is a Mac Pro system issue, or Xserve RAID issue, then call Apple Customer Support for help.

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If the problem is an AJA Video KONA LHe issue, then contact AJA Video Customer Support, “Contacting Support” on page. Appendix A: Specifications Video Formats. 525i 29.97. 625i 25.

720P 50, 59.94, 60. 1080i 25, 29.97, 30. 1080PsF 23.98, 24, 25, 29.97, 30. 1080p 23.98, 24, 25, 29.97, 30 Video Input Digital. SD/HD SDI, SMPTE-259/292/296, 8- or 10-bits. Video Output Analog.

Composite/S-Video (Y/C) (1 x BNC/2x BNC+adapter). NTSC, NTSCJ, PAL. 12-bit D/A, 8x oversampling. +/-.2 dB to 5.0 MHz Y Frequency Response. +/-.2 dB to 1 MHz C Frequency Response.5% 2T pulse response. KONA LHe Plus Installation and Operation Manual — Audio Output Analog Audio Output Analog. 2-channel, 24-bit D/A analog audio, 48kHz sample rate, balanced (via 2 x XLR on breakout cable or optional KL-Box).

+24dbu Full Scale Digital (0dbFS). KONA LHe Plus Installation & Operation Guide — Index Index Symbols Codec Screen Settings codecs.pkg color matte Numerics Color Meanings, Control Panel 10-bit video color selection dialog 24 frames-per-second to 30 conversion colors, meaning of 48kHz audio COMMAND key. Format Screen Settings format, primary Machine Control Frame Buffer over Matte Manual Frame Buffer over Video In Matte Framebuffer Matte Color Freerun menus, context-sensitive Full Frame Monitor Audio Monitor Out Mountain Lion Gatekeeper Genlock Genlock and Your System offset, video adjustment (timing) Getting Help OS X installer files graphic file, test pattern output.

KONA LHe Plus Installation & Operation Guide — Index shipping Video Monitor 35, 36 Single Field video path SMPTE protocol Video/Audio connections SMPTE RP 188 video/audio I/O connections snapshot, Control Panel settings Software VTR RS-422 Control Port Software CD VTR Xchange.