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KONA 3G Installation and 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. In the upper left corner of the AJA Control Panel application, you will see
a board name, such as KONA 3G-0 and the pane heading will read “AJA Control Panel” if you
have more than one product and the associated drivers installed (if only one product is installed,
you’ll see no product or pulldown and the product name will appear in the header). To “target” a
specific installed product for use, click on the text in the upper left hand side of the UI and select
from the list of available products that appear in the pulldown.
Multiple AJA Devices Pulldown Menu
When you launch an application, or AJA TV, the application will use the product that is currently
selected in the AJA Control Panel for its input/output. When an application is running, you can
change the “targeted” product selection using the Control Panel pulldown menu. The running
application will retain its connection to the product. If you change the “targeted” product and
launch a different application, that application will use the new product for its input/ output,
while the first application you launched will continue to use the other AJA product.
Example: if you select a KONA card as the targeted product in the AJA Control Panel application
and launch an Adobe video editing application, that application is now using the KONA
card for its input/output. Go back to the AJA Control Panel application and select an Io
Express as the “targeted” product. Launch the AJA TV application. AJA TV will now use the
Io Express for its output. If you switch back to the Adobe application, you will see that it is
still using the KONA 3G for its input/output. Note that some applications, like AJA TV, have a
provision for playing in the background, so playback on one product could even continue
when switching the targeted device for use with another application. In such cases, you can
even feed the output from one AJA product to another AJA product on the same system.
AJA TV Preferences, Continue Playback when AJA TV is in background