Specifications

KONA v10.5 www.aja.com

KONA Card Features

These features are common to all four KONA cards—KONA 4, 3G, LHe Plus, and LHi.

• DVCPRO HD hardware acceleration

• HDV hardware scaling acceleration

• Dynamic RT Extreme hardware acceleration

NOTE: KONA offers DVCPROHD, HDV, and Apple RT Extreme hardware acceleration. This is how

KONA accelerates DVCPROHD, HDV, and Apple RT Effects. A precision hardware scalar does

what the Apple computer's processor would otherwise have to do—scaling of less than full-

raster HD (DVCProHD and HDV) to full-raster size. This speeds up the system while scaling at

full 10-bit broadcast quality.

• RS-422 Machine Control via 9-pin

PCI Bus: KONA 4 employs an 8-lane PCI Express Bus interface while the other models use 4-lane

PCI-Express Bus.

KONA 4/3G Features

The KONA 4 and 3G cards offer many unique features for optimum quality, ease of use,

and support for a wide variety of post production workflows. 3G features include:

Video I/O: • SD-SDI, HD-SDI, Dual Link HD-SDI, HSDL, and 3G HD-SDI inputs

• HDMI 1.4a output

• KONA 3G I/O supports SD and HD over HDMI

• KONA 4 supports UHD and 4K over HDMI

NOTE: Even though KONA 4 uses the HDMI 1.4 chip, it provides up to 2.0 Level B resolutions. The

HDMI on the KONA 4 can also do 4K-to-2K and UHD-to-HD downconversion and UHD Frame

Rate removal for viewing high frame rate (hfr) video on non-hfr capable HDMI displays.

• 2K support that includes 2048x1556 and 2048x1080 formats

• 4K and Ultra HD capture and playout

• KONA 3G supports framerates up to 30 fps

• KONA 4 supports framerates up to 60 fps

• 12-bit HD component analog video and SD analog component or composite and

s-video output

• 10-bit HD/SD Video+Key Output

• HD/SD Hardware Downstream Keyer

KONA 4/3G supports Dual Link HD-SDI (4:4:4). KONA 4/3G supports the ingest and

output of SMPTE-372M compliant 4:4:4 RGB video and high-bandwidth 4:2:2 1080p 50,

1080p 59.94, and 1080p 60 at 10-bit.