EXPANDING THE PORTFOLIO FOR REAL WORLD APPLICATIONS
Dependable solutions
If you work in live production, you are almost certainly already reliant on AJA products working tirelessly away in your racks. Over the past few years AJA has updated its existing portfolio in line with current and future demand and critically added new solutions working with third-party developers to solve broadcast challenges as the market moves to 4K, HDR, IP, multi-platform and remote workflows. It was only a couple of years ago that AJA partnered with leading software developer Colorfront and introduced the now widely used and admired FS-HDR converter / frame synchroniser and HDR Image Analyzer that have both had multiple (free) firmware and software upgrades as the HDR market has developed. In October this year, AJA further rounded out its suite of live production products with half a dozen new rack mount and openGear products while updating the Ki Pro Ultra, further underscoring AJA’s reputation for conceptualising and delivering real world solutions both for today and the future.
Scan and convert
Broadcast and live event applications require conversion from every source to be rapid and reliable, and being able to take any SDI input out to 3G-SDI and HDMI simultaneously, gives AJA’s new OG-ROI-SDI the edge. This new scan converter brings extensive audio functionality, image scaling and rotation with frame sync, as well as aspect and frame rate conversion. Drawing on the lineage of AJA Mini-Converters, and built using openGear high-density architecture, it supports Ross Video DashBoard remote control and monitoring software. The openGear support means the OG-ROI-SDI
Bringing it all together The final link in the live production chain is
A PERSISTENT THEME WITH AJA IS COMPATIBILITY AND PARTNERSHIP WITH
is fully compatible with a huge range of other rack- mounted signal processing components, while the Dashboard offers interactive selection of a Region of Interest from the incoming video signal.
Audio on tap As well as being fully
Double the power
The subscription-based streamers use HDR and next-generation audio to entice viewers to sign up to their OTT services, but this level of quality comes at a cost in terms of capacity. Meanwhile the broadcast world is moving en masse to remote production, with all the benefits and challenges that this brings. AJA has recognised both of these demands by making its powerful Ki Pro Ultra 12G recorder and player even more versatile, and in the process has simplified high bandwidth workflows. New firmware adds input frame sync to AJA’s workhorse, so removing genlock requirements for incoming video signals, while 8K Link ID means productions can handle 8K/UltraHD2 workflows when four Ki Pro Ultra 12G units are synced in tandem in 12G- or 6G-SDI mode. With this free upgrade, the v2.0 firmware has future-proofed the Ki Pro Ultra 12G.
compatible with openGear, AJA’s OG-DANTE-12GAM card is also the world’s first-ever 12G-SDI to Dante audio embedder/ disembedder. It’s thus able to bridge 12G/6G/3G SDI
sources with embedded audio to and from the Dante AV over IP ecosystem. Audinate’s networking solution Dante allows transport of fully synchronised uncompressed, multi-channel, low latency audio across large distances, to multiple locations at once, using nothing more than an Ethernet cable. By offering 64 channels of audio over Dante to SDI and back, with ultra-simple installation and openGear support, the bridge card is perfect for professional live broadcast and installed sound applications alike.
OTHER DEVELOPERS OF ESSENTIAL PRODUCTION KIT
distribution, ever more crucial these days as video platforms proliferate. AJA has thus rolled out BRIDGE LIVE, offering streamers and broadcasters a ‘set and forget’ solution for moving UltraHD or multi-channel HD video between uncompressed baseband SDI to and from a wide range of streaming and contribution codecs such as H.265, H.264, MPEG-2 and JPEG 2000. A turnkey 1RU system, BRIDGE LIVE combines AJA I/O technology with powerful encoding/ decoding/transcoding software from Comprimato. It supports a flexible array of
containers and protocols, including SRT, RTMP/S, RTP, UDP and MPEG-TS, and extends to Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) ladder profiles and hand off for OTT packaging. Whether streaming to a social media platform, encoding video for distribution to OTT, offering a video output from facility equipment to remote clients and artists, or contributing video feeds from remote locations to a data centre or media facility, all with monitoring options and rich metadata support, BRIDGE LIVE can truly bring a live production together.
Smooth operator This is what AJA does best, taking a
comprehensive approach to a production sector and developing robust and adaptable solutions that directly address, in this case, the everyday challenges of the full range of live production scenarios. It does this as part of an ultra-reliable extensible pipeline, supporting third-party tools and standards as well as providing interoperability across the entire AJA product line.
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