Owner's manual

HA5-Plus Mini-Converter v1.3 www.aja.com

Chapter 1: Introduction

Overview

The HA5-Plus converts HDMI to 3G, HD, or SD SDI. Up to eight channels of HDMI audio

are embedded into the SDI output allowing a convenient single cable audio/video

connection. Two external analog audio inputs can replace two of these embedded audio

channels, if desired. The HA5-Plus supports long HDMI cables on the input. The HA5-Plus

is useful for connecting HDMI cameras and other sources to SDI capture cards and

equipment.

Features • HDMI to 3G/HD/SD-SDI (see "Appendix A: Specifications on page 16" for a complete list of

supported inputs).

• Full 10-bit Conversion

• Full HDMI support including embedded audio

• Equalized HDMI input supports long HDMI cables up to 30m

• PLL clock filtering for low jitter SDI outputs

• Lock LED shows type of input source: SD (green), HD (red), or 3G (amber)

• Unbalanced analog audio input (2 RCA)

• Accepts 8 channels of HDMI embedded audio

• Outputs 8 channels of SDI embedded audio (Channels 1-8 or 9-16)

• HDMI cable supplied

• Uses universal input +5V power supply AJA model DWP-U-R1 (included)

NOTE: The HA5-Plus will not pass HDMI video with HDCP copy protection.