GRASS VALLEY, CA – At MacWorld Expo in San Francisco, AJA Video (www.aja.com) introduced its new, top-of-the-line Kona 3 HD/SD video capture card. The release offers 40 percent more processing power than its Kona 2 and is designed for SD, HD and Dual Link 4:4:4:4 HD for PCI Express (PCIe) Apple G5 Power Macs and Apple Final Cut Pro.
Kona 3's all new extensible architecture features a 4-lane PCI-Express bus interface with integrated AJA QuickTime drivers that work seamlessly with the new Apple Power Mac G5s and Final Cut Pro. Supporting any uncompressed SD or HD format, including Dual Link, Kona 3 captures and plays back uncompressed 10-bit and 8-bit digital video and 24-bit/48kHz digital audio. Kona 3 also includes a variety of 10-bit broadcast-quality features, such as hardware-based up-and-down-conversion to and from HD. The card also adds a live hardware keyer for compositing bugs, live clips, and other elements over video.
Priced at $2,990, the new card will ship worldwide on January 30th.