COMPLETING THE LIVE PRODUCTION JIGSAW


Reliability in the racks


AJA has always had the reputation for designing and building the most robust mini-converters in the market. Over the last few years AJA has grown its portfolio of live production products from the ground up and increasingly partnered with best- in-class software vendors. With the knowledge that live production is unforgiving and demands reliable gear to simplify the way images and now audio are captured, converted, monitored and distributed, AJA develops tools that help broadcasters always deliver on-time every time.


From elections to entertainment, from sport to Strictly Come Dancing, a live production is an ‘appointment to view’ writ large. So more than any other strand of broadcasting it’s mission critical that the kit and infrastructure that underpins live production is both rock solid and versatile. After all, when it’s live, there are no reruns. If you look on the racks behind the scenes of any such production, or in the machine rooms serving the remote galleries that are increasingly popping up, you’re guaranteed to see the AJA logo. That might be on the interface for a device for simultaneous streaming and recording H.264 like the HELO, a big 4K/UltraHD recorder in the shape of the Ki Pro 12G, or a KUMO seamlessly routing that UltraHD over 12G-SDI. Supporting baseband up to 12G-SDI, connected via fibre to IP networks, or via Thunderbolt/USB3 to a host computer, these dedicated boxes and their siblings work smoothly away in the background. That’s not to say they work in isolation. A persistent theme with AJA is compatibility and partnership with other developers of essential production kit. Witness the tie-up with IP-based audio networking giant Audinate to launch the first 12G-SDI embedded audio to Dante audio bridge, the OG-ROI-SDI, a scan converter compatible with Ross Video’s openGear system, or the powerful HDR


and WCG image analysis tools from Colorfront in AJA’s HDR Image Analyzer 12G platform. If AJA were a schoolchild, its report card would read “plays well with others”.


Playing well together is also the defining theme of the burgeoning world of esports, where you’d be as likely to find an FS4 frame synchroniser and converter as a gaming headset in a professional arena. While the Unreal Engine from Epic Games - which enjoys a second life as the power behind virtually all studios in live broadcasting - always ships with a dedicated plug-in supporting SDI video and audio for AJA’s Corvid and KONA I/O cards. Meanwhile as the pandemic had made remote presenters of us all, so the tiny U-TAP device allows professionals


on the move or at home to quickly output from a camera feed to a computer and contribute to live productions, streaming up to 1080p 60 with automatic video scaling and aspect ratio. The unifying aspect of AJA’s broad portfolio of live production tools is that they are all practical, robust and above all best-in-class solutions to real world engineering challenges. The AJA badge is always a guarantee of product reliability and performance when second best in just not good enough.


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