AJA kona3 Installation And Operation Manual

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• AJA kona3, 26 3. Locate the package file in the folder from the download or by double clicking on the CD; the package has an icon that looks like a box and has a “.pkg” suffix. Note: Files ending in the “.pkg” suffix are OS X installer files. These launch the OS X installer and tell it where and what to install on your system. 4. Double-click the package to log on and begin software installation. 5. The system will respond by asking you to authenticate who you are as currently defined on your OS X user profile. Enter the proper name and password at the Authenticate prompt; if you have multiple users defined, ensure that you log on as a user with admini

• AJA kona3, 1 1 Chapter 2: Installation & Configuration 2 Installation Overview The installation and set up of a KONA 3 is very simple. All of the steps of installation and configuration are documented in this chapter, summarized as follows: 1. Unpack and examine the contents of the shipping box 2. If not previously installed on your Mac or PC, ensure that the capture/editing application you intend to use is installed as detailed in its user documentation. Your application must be installed and run at least once for the KONA Easy Setups to be installed properly. If other capture cards have been installed, the software for thos

• AJA kona3, 1 19 KONA 3 Installation and Operation Guide — Installing the KONA 3 Card into Installing the KONA 3 Card into a MacPro 1. Place the computer in a well-lit area, where you will have easy access when opening the MacPro chassis. 2. Using your hand, touch the outside of the Mac to discharge any static electricity you have. Remove the power cable from the back of the chassis. 3. Remove the side access door and described in your Apple User Manual. Lay the machine on its side, motherboard facing up. 4. Remove the KONA card from its protective anti-static bag; place the card on top of the bag. 5. Visually l

• AJA kona3, 60 Timecode Screen Settings Input RP-188 Timecode —in RP-188 timecode (SMPTE 12M-2) there can be multiple timecode values in the data stream. Use this pull-down to select the one you wish to monitor. The selection will be displayed in the timecode value displayed to the right of the pull-down. User Bits—for monitoring variable framerate timecode (for example, Varicam), you may wish to monitor the user bits embedded in the timecode. If you set this checkbox, KONA 3 will detect and interpret the user bits and display them next to the checkbox. Output Use QuickTime Timecode—when checked, this directs KONA to output

• AJA kona3, 1 21 KONA 3 Installation and Operation Guide — Installing the KONA Card in a Card Slots, PCIe Mac Pro shown here Note: After you install the KONA 3 card, you may notice that in the MacOSX Network preferences there is a message stating “You have a new network port named KONA 3 —be sure to check the settings...”. There is no need to take any action; this occurs because MacOSX detects the RS-422 serial port on the KONA 3 card that you will use for VTR machine control. Installing the KONA Card in a Windows PC 1. Place

• AJA kona3, 1 55 KONA 3 Installation and Operation Manual — Using The KONA 3 Control Note: The RED checkbox is designed to enable video output support for the unique geometries associated with RED proxy files or media transcoded from RED source R3D files. Without this checkbox enabled, playback of RED footage, be it proxy or transcoded files, will require your editing application to handle the scaling of the video to a standard video output size, such as 1920x1080. Audio Setup Screen This screen shows the current settings for that analog audio output, and allows you to re- configure it when desired. KONA 3 Control Panel, Audio Setup Screen Audio Setup Screen

• AJA kona3, 1 59 KONA 3 Installation and Operation Manual — Using The KONA 3 Control Audio Out: Frame Buffer—select audio out to be routed from the contents of the Frame Buffer. Audio In—select audio out to be routed from KONA’s currently selected input(s). Opacity: this slider controls the transparency of the keyed video (over the background) from translucent to completely opaque. Graphic File: click this field to choose from any recently accessed file from the menu or select a new file (“Load File...”), which then brings up a file dialogue. Remember that the file raster (pixel x pixel count) should match the primary format in the frame buffer or the

• AJA kona3, 52 Video+Key—when selected, this indicates that the SDI output 1 video is set to the same format as the framebuffer. SDI output 2 is set to a video key signal associated with output 1 (the shape to be cut out from the video - this will appear as a black and white image/ matte). Using the second KONA output as an Alpha Channel key, with the video output, may be useful for feeding production switchers, DVEs or other professional video equipment. If Video+Key has been selected as an output, the block diagram will indicate the SDI outputs with video in blue and the key in red. KONA 3 Control Panel, SDI Output Screen, Video + Key Stereo 3D—when selected, this indicates that SDI 1

• 76 Storage Requirement Table 11 Storage Requirements 11 Support 66 support 66 S-Video connections 13 s-video output 2 Symptoms, problem 65 System Connections 24 system interconnections 23 T Tabbed Windows 40 telecine to KONA 3 3 Timecode Burn-in 60 Timecode Offset 60 Timecode Screen 56 Timecode Screen Settings 60 timing adjustment 43 Timing adjustment, Control Panel 43 tra

• AJA kona3, 1 23 KONA 3 Installation and Operation Guide — Cabling the System KONA 3 System Using Breakout Cable Typical System A figure on the following page shows typical system interconnections for a system with digital A/V sources. Your system may differ depending on VTRs, audio monitoring, and video monitoring. 1. If desired, connect your house reference sync to the KONA 3 Ref Loop connector (BNC). On the breakout cable this is a terminated reference input. The second KONA 3 Ref Loop connector on the optional Breakout Box can be connected to your VTR. If you do not loop through the reference, the second connector should be terminated with a 75 ohm terminator.

• AJA kona3, 1 71 KONA 3 Installation and Operation Manual — Reference Terms HD-SDI Refers to a high definition signal provided on a serial digital connection. High Definition A video format consisting of either 720 active lines of progressive video or 1080 active lines, using either progressive or interlaced scanning. Interlaced Scanning A scanning method based on the visible screen showing every odd line at one scan of the screen and the even lines in a second scan. Letterbox Letterbox refers to the image of a wide-screen picture on a standard 4:3 aspect ratio screen. Usually black bars are shown above and belo

• AJA kona3, 10 Software For Striping AJA recommends the Disk Utility software provided by Apple with OS X for creating and striping RAIDs, including 3rd-party, SCSI and Fibre Channel RAIDs. This easy to use utility can be found in Macintosh HD/Applications/Utilities, where “Macintosh HD” is the name of the system drive. Storage Example: AJA KONA 3 and Xserve RAID For an optimum disk storage configuration with the AJA KONA 3 —working with compressed media to uncompressed single-link HD media—Apple's Xserve RAID is an effective storage device when properly configured. Apple's Xserve RAID holds up to 14 drive modules (resulting te

• AJA kona3, 1 75 KONA 3 Installation & Operation Guide for Mac & PC — L Letterbox 48 letterbox 48 Linear 57 Load File 59 Lock Input Audio Gain To Unity 54, 55 Log On Authenticate Prompt 26 Log RGB 6 looping 2 M Machine Control 13 Machine Control, pinout 68 Manual 15 Matte 58 matte 3 Matte Color 58 mini-connectors 12 Monitor Audio 53, 56 Monitor Out 13 monitoring, analog outputs 53 motion adaptive de-interlacing 2 Mountain Lion 25 O offline quality at low bit rates 4 offset, video adjustment (timing) 43 on-line quality at moderate bit rates 4 Opacity 59

• AJA kona3, 8 KONA 3 Shipping Box Contents AJA KONA 3 PCI-Express Card Installation Software CD Installation and Operation Manual in electronic form on the CD (PDF) Read Me First Notice and Registration Sheet BNC/XLR-cable SDI cable Standard Cable Set 3 BNCs (Analog Out Connections): In SD Can be Congured for Component, Composite, or S-Video In HD Can Only Be Component Reference Input BNC RS422 Machine Control (9-pin) Audio Output XLRs Channels 1-8 (2 channels/connector) Audio Input XLRs Channels 1-8 (2 cha

• AJA kona3, 1 57 KONA 3 Installation and Operation Manual — Using The KONA 3 Control Single Field: a single field is displayed, showing no flicker (useful when color correcting or whenever the flickering would be a distraction). YUV-RGB Conversion: These pulldowns select industry standard color space and gamma transfer functions for the YUV-RGB conversion, or allow you to direct the KONA card to automatically determine it for you. Colorspace—choose from: Rec 601 Rec 709 Auto Gamma—choose from the following: Linear (1.8) Rec 601 (2.20) Rec 709 (2

• 58 Downstream Keyer Mode: Downstream Keyer Off — when this pulldown menu item is selected the downstream keyer will be turned off Frame Buffer over Matte— places the keyed video with alpha channel currently in the Frame Buffer over a fixed color matte determined by the “Matte Color” setting set separately. Frame Buffer over Video In—places the keyed video currently in the Frame

• 34 When the installer has completed copying the KONA software to disk, you may see a standard Windows Logo test warning. Click on the “Continue Anyway” button to finish the installation. 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 inst

• AJA kona3, 1 11 KONA 3 Installation and Operation Guide — Cable Connections version 3.3 and higher of the Kona driver and can be found in the AJA Utilities folder which installs in the Applications folder of the Mac OS. The AJA Data Rate Calculator application can also be downloaded from the AJA website and used on any OSX computer. Cable Connections When KONA 3 is installed in an Apple desktop computer, it connects to the outside world via either the standard cable set supplied with the board, or the optional K3-Box Breakout Box (using the cables and directions supplied with it). Use the cables or the optional Breakout Box to connect your

• AJA kona3, 1 1 1 Overview The AJA KONA 3 brings the highest quality to SD, HD, Dual Link HD and 2K film resolutions to Apple PCI-Express and PCI-X computers. The KONA 3 offers unsurpassed 10-bit broadcast quality serial digital video input/output, 8-channel digital AES/EBU audio input/output as well as 16-channel embedded audio, hardware based up-conversion from SD to HD, hardware based down-conversion from HD to SD and HD to HD cross-conversion between 720 and1080 HD formats, DVCProHD and HDV hardware scaling support. KONA 3 is designed to be the ultimate capture and playback

• 56 Conversion Screen This screen offers a variety of controls that determine how the card behaves under the editing application. KONA 3 Control Panel, Conversion Screen Conversion Screen Settings Software Conversion—the value selected in this pulldown is used whenever, due to format selection, you’ve chosen to do 24 frames-per-second to 30 conversion where extra fields w

• AJA kona3, 1 43 KONA 3 Installation and Operation Manual — Using The KONA 3 Control Timing (Horiz and Vert)—these two pull-downs allow output timing adjustment with reference to the Ref Video source selected. The Horizontal reference can be adjusted by selecting a number of pixels (clocks) to offset. Vertical can be adjusted by specifying a number of lines to offset. Formats Screen The Formats screen shows the video format currently in use by the KONA 3 framebuffer (called the Primary Format) and allows you to change it. All througho

• AJA kona3, 32 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. Otherwise, use the “Typical” installation. The following screens depict the more elaborate Custom installation. Custom Installation Menu You may deselect an Item for installation by using the pulldown to make it unavailable. Custom Selections Pulldown Menu

• 1 13 KONA 3 Installation and Operation Guide — Cable Connections Connector Descriptions— Cables and K3-Box Connectors on the standard cable set are labelled as to their function for easy installation and maintenance. Similarly, connectors on the optional Breakout Box are also labelled. 8 Channel Digital AES/EBU Audio Inputs And Outputs When using the standard cable

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