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DVC Online Shopping > VIDEO EDITING > Adobe Premiere Pro > Extra Hardware to improve Premiere Pro > AJA Cards

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AJA do a range of cards for PC and MAC, both SD and HD. The Xena range is for PC and Kona range for MAC.

Xena HD-SDI cards are supported natively within Premiere Pro - the Xena XS is specifically supported when the program is installed, however when you install the drivers for the Xena cards you also get modes for analogue capture in various formats.

Unlike the Matrox cards the Xena cards do not accelerate Premiere Pro - they basically provide extra inputs and outputs. They do let you play native captured HDV files from the timeline with no rendering.

The Xena cards come with video out plug-ins for Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk Combustion and Eyeon Fusion. You can also output QuickTime and AVI files as well as image sequences in DPX, Cineon, TIFF, TGA and BMP formats.

All Xena cards except the HS come with AJA’s Machina - a stand alone capture application which can capture into QuickTime, AVI or still image formats.

AJA cards capture into uncompressed video. This means you have to be careful to be sure that your hard drive array is fast enough to support the format you choose. There is an excellent datarate calculator on the AJA site which tells you what speed is required for your chosen format and how much space it will consume. Uncompressed 8 bit HD takes 600GB per hour and needs to have at least 4 hard drives striped together in an array to meet the speed requirements! Obvious uncompressed SD is considerably lower data rates.

Like the Black Magic cards the AJA’s main advantage over the Matrox RT.X2 is the price for the types of inputs that are supplied. The LHe, for example, gives you 10 bit digital capture and 12 bit analogue, with XLR inputs for audio, SDI and component i/o for both SD and HD and is £1,135 +VAT. The Matrox Axio LE is £2,750 for HD-SDI and supports 8 bit, not 10bit or 12bit capture. Of course, the Axio gives you support for Panasonic DVCPro HD and Sony XDCAM, plus a range of extra filters, higher quality slow motion and better HDV support than the AJA cards.

In short the Matrox cards give you better features when editing but cost more. An AJA card is ideal for someone who mainly does effects work with After Effects/Combustion etc, or needs to take image sequences made from a 3D program and output them to video at the highest quality. If editing and you don’t use the extra Matrox effects, then the AJA would also be ideal.

Aja effectively have 4 types of card:

Xena 2K & 2Ke

These are the top Xena cards - they offer SDI, HD-SDI, Dual Link SD and HD-SDI 4:4:4, and 4:4:4:4, 2K HSDL with the biggest advantage being 2K support. One version is PCI-X, the other 4 lane PCIe.

Xena LH & LHe

SDI and component HD and SD in and out, with SVIDEO and composite. One version is PCI-X, the other 4 lane PCIe. An optional rack mountable breakout box is also available.

XENA LS AND LSe

Standard definition SDI, component, SVIDEO and composite i/o. Optional breakout box.

XENA hs

The card that is natively supported by Premiere Pro. SDI i/o only (SD and HD)

 


Xena 2KXena 2K
Dual-Link HD / HD / SD 10-bit Capture and Output PCI-X Card with:
* PCI-X 133 interface or PCI-e (PCI-Express) Interface, 4-Lane
* Switchable 2K HSDL, Dual-Link HD-SDI 4:4:4, 4:4:4:4, HD-SDI 4:2:2, SD-SDI 4:2:2
* Real-Time Hardware-based 10-bit HD/SD Broadcast-Quality Up-, Down-, and Cross-conversion
* 12-bit HD Component analogue video output
* 12-bit SD Component/Composite/S-video analogue video output
* 24-bit 8-Channel AES Audio Input and Output
* 24-bit 16-Channel Embedded Audio Input and Output
* RS-422 Machine Control
* AJA XENA plug-ins for Premiere Pro 2.0, After Effects 6.5, Photoshop CS/CS2, Combustion 4 and Fusion 5
* AJA Machina software
* Unlimited Phone Technical Support
* 3-year Parts and Labour Warranty


Xena 2K - PCIe version - £2,195 +VAT


Xena 2K - PCI-X version - £2,195 +VAT


Breakout box for Xena 2K - £190+VAT




The Xena 2K breakout box

Xena2K breakout box

AJA LHAJA LH
HD / SD 10-bit Digital and 12-bit analogue Capture and Output PCI Card with:
* 10-bit HD-SDI / SDI Digital I/O
* 12-bit HD Component analogue video I/O
* 12-bit SD Component/Composite/S-video analogue video I/O
* Real-Time Hardware-based 10-bit HD/SD Broadcast-Quality Down-conversion
* 24-bit 2-ch AES/EBU Digital audio I/O via XLR, input AES sample rate conversion
* 24-bit 2-ch Balanced analogue audio I/O via XLR
* 24-bit 8-Channel Embedded Audio Input and Output
* Genlock
* Breakout cable standard, KL-Box-LH optional
* RS-422 Machine Control
* AJA XENA plug-ins for Premiere Pro 2.0, After Effects 6.5, Photoshop CS/CS2, Combustion 4 and Fusion 5
* AJA Machina software
* Unlimited Phone Technical Support
* 3-year Parts and Labour Warranty


Xena LE - PCI-X version - £1,135 +VAT


Xena LHe - PCIe version - £1,135 +VAT


Breakout box for Xena LH/LHe - £190 +VAT




The Xena Lhe breakout box

Xena2K breakout box

Xena LSXena LS
SD 10-bit Digital and 12-bit analogue Capture and Output PCIe Card with:
* PCIe interface, 4-lane/PCI interface
* 10-bit SDI Digital I/O
* 12-bit DAC Component/Composite/S-video analogue video I/O
* 24-bit 2-ch AES/EBU Digital audio I/O via XLR, input AES sample rate conversion
* 24-bit 2-ch Balanced analogue audio I/O via XLR
* 24-bit 8-Channel Embedded Audio Input and Output
* Genlock
* Breakout cable standard, KL-Box-LH optional
* RS-422 Machine Control
* AJA XENA plug-ins for Premiere Pro 2.0, After Effects 6.5, Photoshop CS/CS2, Combustion 4 and Fusion 5
* AJA Machina software
* Unlimited Phone Technical Support
* 3-year Parts and labour Warranty


Xena LS - PCI - £630 +VAT


Xena LS - PCIe - £630 +VAT


Breakout box of Xena LS - £190 +VAT




Xena HSXena HS
Windows HD/SD 10-Bit PCI card
Integrated Native Support with Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0
Certified for for use with: Cineform Prospect HD software
* HD-SDI/SDI I/O
* 6-channel AES or embedded audio I/O
* Genlock 
* AJA Plug-ins for Adobe After Effects 7.0 and Photoshop CS2                     
* AJA Direct Show Drivers                           
* Unlimited Phone Technical Support 
* 3-year Parts and labour Warranty                         
Price:    £625.00
£734.38 Including  VAT at 17.5%




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