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KONA 3 Installation and Operation Manual — Features
Crossconversion is high-quality hardware-based, providing capability to
streamline dailies and offers true broadcast picture quality in realtime. Because
these functions are in hardware on the card, they are available full time, all the
time—with no CPU load. Such conversions are useful for cost effective
monitoring, making standard definition dubs of an HD project, or
upconverting from a standard definition FCP project to an HD deliverable.
KONA 3 Audio
KONA 3 supports 8 channels of 24-bit 48kHz or 96kHz AES digital audio via
XLR (balanced 110 ohm) connectors (using the supplied breakout cable) or
XLR and BNC (unbalanced 75 ohm) connectors (when the optional K3-Box
breakout box is used.) KONA 3 also supports 16 channels of embedded 24-bit
48kHz digital audio over the same SDI connection as the video. If you are using
a Digital Betacam VTR, HDCam VTR, DVCPro VTR, D5 VTR or HDCam
SR VTR—you'll have the proper audio connections for interfacing with the
VTR.
KONA 3 support for 8 AES digital audio via XLR or BNC features AES input
sample rate conversion; this feature eliminates the requirement for audio source
synchronization. Sample rate converters auto-lock to any AES input, 32-96kHz,
and then convert it to 24 bit 48 or 96kHz audio, perfectly locked to internal
KONA 3 video. Sample rate conversion is done at very high quality (over 120db
THD).
Dual Link
KONA 3 supports Dual Link HD-SDI (4:4:4). This emerging technology is
found in Sony's HDCamSR product line as well as Thomson Grass Valley's
Viper Filmstream camera. KONA 3 supports the ingest and output of SMPTE-
372M compliant 4:4:4 RGB video at 10 bit.
2K Workflow Support
The KONA 3 2K path offers potentially significant cost and labor savings over a
tape-based approach to 2K workflow. In a unique development for customers on
the Apple platform, users can go straight from telecine to disk with 2K media
and eliminate steps requiring the use of tape stock and then the digitizing of
those tapes for the nonlinear editor. 2K telecine to KONA 3 saves time and steps
in the process by directly and simultaneously creating 2K DPX files and 2K
QuickTime reference movies. Material can be played out at 2K via HSDL (High
Speed Data Link), offering further synergy with other 2K products, such as
projectors or DDRs, currently available in the market.
Additionally, KONA 3 allows 2K files to be viewed on HD 1080PsF supported
video monitors, lowering the price barrier for recording to tape and viewing 2K
material. This 1080 HD playout can be down-converted to SD in real time,
giving the 2K DI pipeline a powerful solution for multi-format video playout of
2K material.
By generating 2K DPX files during the digitize phase, different parts of the
process, for example-delivery of full-resolution media for shots intended for
visual effects-can be done much earlier. Offline editing can be done in Final Cut
Pro and because of the flexibility of Final Cut Pro and QuickTime, even a 2K
online is possible.