AJA Io HD 10-bit HD FireWire Facilitating high-quality Capture and Playback |
Product Code: IOHD
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Recording 10-bit Apple ProRes 422 direct to your Mac via a single FireWire 800 connection, AJA's award-winning Io HD is a portable plug-in solution for working with HD and SD. |
| Features of Io HD |
Enhance your production workflow
Facilitating high-quality capture and playback with the widest range of gear, Io HD let's you record Apple ProRes files to any FireWire-equipped Mac.
Easily interfaced with your on set capture or post production equipment, AJA Io HD features professional video and audio connections, allowing it to enhance any workflow.
ProRes encoding and decoding
Integrating with the software running on your computer and utilizing efficient hardware-based encoding and decoding, Io HD handles the heavy lifting of compressing and decompressing ProRes
files, keeping the load off your CPU and providing superior quality encoding/decoding compared to software-only solutions.
With AJA Io HD, video professionals can avoid lossy tape compression and capture footage to high quality 10-bit, full raster Apple ProRes 422 files - ready for use immediately in your editing
software. ProRes can create images that are virtually indistinguishable from the source, while the 10-bit sample depth means the results are easily suitable for color correction and compositing.
Because the files are compressed or expanded directly within the Io HD, the actual data that has to travel to or from the computer is much smaller than if uncompressed HD video were being transferred.
This allows Io HD to utilize a standard FireWire 800 connection.
Huge I/O flexibility
Io HD's comprehensive connectivity allows it to interface with the widest range of post production and on set capture/playback equipment, from HD VTRs and cameras through to analog legacy
devices. The rear panel features two SD/HD inputs and two outputs, one connection for Genlock input and a loop-through, and two groups of three BNCs which may be configured for component SD/HD analog
video input and output. HDMI input and output allows interfacing with low-cost camcorders and HD monitors. Add to the list S-video, composite video, LTC in and out—and a 9-pin connector for
RS-422 machine control and you can connect to just about anything.
Audio support includes 8-channel 24-bit AES via BNC, 8-channel embedded audio on SDI/HDMI I/O, and analog connections via XLR and RCA.
Integrated AJA hardware conversion
Using AJA's powerful conversion technology, Io HD allows you to ingest any resolution and convert to a common, working format. This
brings greater efficiencies to your post production workflow as individual shots no longer have to be rescaled within the editing or graphics application.
AJA Io HD features full 10-bit, broadcast-quality, motion adaptive SD to HD up conversion, HD to HD cross conversion, HD to SD down conversion, and HD/SD 12-bit component analog output. That's the
equivalent of fitting the functionality of several AJA converters into one convenient, cost-effective box Io HD conversion capabilities streamline the creation of dailies and deliverables at broadcast quality - in real time.
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| Technical Specifications of Io HD |
| Video Formats |
• 525i 29.97
• 625i 25
• 720P 50, 59.94, 60
• 1080i 25, 29.97, 30
• 1080PsF 23.98, 24
• 1080p 23.98, 24, 25, 29.97, 30
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| Video Input Digital |
• SD/HD SDI, SMPTE-259/292/296 (2 inputs)
• HDMI 1.1 |
| Video Input Analog |
• Composite and S-Video (Y/C):
• NTSC, NTSCJ, PAL 12-bit A/D,
• 2x oversampling
• 3 line adaptive comb filter decoding
• SD Component:
• SMPTE/EBU N10, Betacam 525 line,
• Betacam 525J, RGB 12-bit A/D,
• 2x oversampling
• HD Component:
• YPbPr
• 12-bit A/D
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| Video Output Digital |
• SD/HD SDI, SMPTE-259/292/296 (2 outputs)
• HDMI 1.1
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| Video Output Analog |
• Composite and S-Video (Y/C):
• NTSC, NTSCJ, PAL 12-bit D/A,
• 8x oversampling
• SD Component:
• SMPTE/EBU N10, Betacam 525 line, Betacam 525J, RGB 12-bit
D/A, 8x oversampling
• HD Component:
• YPbPr, RGB12-bit D/A, 2x oversampling
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| Audio Input Digital |
• 8-channel, 24-bit SMPTE-259 SDI embedded audio, 48kHz sample rate, Synchronous
• 8-channel, 24-bit HDMI embedded audio, 48kHz sample rate,
Synchronous
• 8-channel, 24-bit AES/EBU audio, 48kHz or 96 KHz sample rate, Synchronous or Non-synchronous, Internal sample rate conversion (via 4 x XLR)
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| Audio Input Analog |
• 24-bit A/D, 4-channel balanced XLR, 48kHz +15/18/24 dbu Full Scale Digital
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| Audio Output Digital |
• 24-bit SDI embedded audio, 8-channel, 48kHz
• 24-bit AES audio, 8-channel, 48kHz
• HDMI embedded, 8-channel
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| Audio Output Analog |
• 24-bit D/A, 4-channel balanced XLR, 48kHz
• +15/18/24 dbu Full Scale Digital
• 2-channel unbalanced RCA (for monitoring)
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| Up-Conversion |
• Hardware 10-bit
• Anamorphic: full-screen
• Pillar box 4:3: results in a 4:3 image in center of screen with black sidebars
• Zoom 14:9: results in a 4:3 image zoomed slightly to fill a 14:9 image with black side bars
• Zoom Letterbox: results in image zoomed to fill full screen
• Zoom Wide: results in a combination of zoom and horizontal stretch to fill a 16:9 screen; this setting can introduce a small aspect ratio change
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| Down-Conversion |
• Hardware 10-bit
• Anamorphic: full-screen
• Letterbox: image is reduced with black top and bottom added to image area with the aspect ratio preserved
• Crop: image is cropped to fit new screen size |
| Cross-Conversion |
• Hardware 10-bit
• 1080i to 720P
• 720P to 1080i
• 720P to 1080PsF |
| SD to SD Aspect Ratio Conversion |
• Letterbox: This transforms SD anamorphic material to a letterboxed image.
• H Crop: Will produce a horizontally stretched effect on the
image; transforms anamorphic SD to full frame
• SD Pillarbox: Will produce an image in the center of the screen with black borders on the left and right sides and an anamorphized image in the center
• V Crop: Will transform SD letterbox material to an anamorphic image.
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Timecode
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• LTC timecode input and output via BNC |
| Reference Input |
• Analog Color Black (1V), Composite Sync (2 or 4V) or Tri-level Sync
• Terminated Input, buffered output
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| Machine Control |
• RS-422, Sony 9-pin protocol (via breakout cable or optional K3G-Box)
• 9-pin D-connector pinout is as follows:
| 1 |
GND |
| 2 |
RX- |
| 3 |
TX+ |
| 4 |
GND |
| 5 |
No Connection |
| 6 |
GND |
| 7 |
RX+ |
| 8 |
TX- |
| 9 |
GND |
| Shell |
GND |
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