User Manual

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Features
The KONA LHe Plus card offers a large number of unique features for optimum quality, ease
of use, and support for a wide variety of workflows and environments. KONA LHe Plus
provides flexible standard definition and high definition capture and playback, a hardware
down-converter for working in mixed SD/HD environments—and it supports both analog
and digital audio/video I/O.
Hardware • 10-bit uncompressed SD/HD QuickTime capture card
• 12-bit HD Analog Component I/O
• 12-bit SD Analog Component/Composite/S-Video I/O
• 10-bit hardware HD-to-SD down-conversion
• DVCProHD hardware acceleration
• HDV hardware acceleration
• Dynamic RT Extreme hardware acceleration
• One SDI or HD-SDI Input
• Two independent SDI/HD-SDI outputs
• 2-channel analog balanced XLR audio I/O
• 2-channel AES XLR audio I/O
• 8-channel SDI embedded audio I/O
• HD/SD genlock on analog video inputs
• RS-422 Machine Control
• compatible with most professional high-end editing applications
• Cables standard
• Optional KL-box Breakout Box—provides rack mounting and flexible
easy I/O (KL-box cabling is included with the KL-box). When ordering, specify a KL-box
for the KONA LHe Plus since it uses a unique cable.
• 3-year warranty
Video Formats For a complete list of video formats that KONA LHE Plus supports, refer to “Video Formats”
on page 59.
KONA LHe Plus
Audio
KONA LHe Plus supports two-channel 24-bit 48kHz AES audio via XLR connections, and
eight-channel embedded 24-bit 48kHz audio over the same single SDI connection as the
video. If you are using a digital deck—you’ll have the proper connections to the deck.
For analog audio, KONA LHe Plus provides two-channel balanced audio input and output. If
you purchase the optional KL-Box breakout box, you also get two-channel unbalanced
audio output (RCA jacks).
KONA LHe Plus also 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 48KHz audio, perfectly locked to internal
KONA LHe Plus video. Sample rate conversion is done at very high quality (over 120db THD).