What about new Kona LH?

[Jason J rodriguez]

Yes, I’m wondering about that too . . . having to go with the older HS card only is going to-be a bit of a bummer in light of all the new advancements that the LH series adds, especially with analog input/output.

Thanks,

Jason Rodriguez
Virginia Beach, VA

[Aja Sales department]

Hi-

The XENA LH is not compatible with Premiere Pro 2.0, but is instead targeted at professional motion graphics users. The XENA HS is our solution for PP2.0, and is part of Adobe’s OpenHD initiative. Please note that the XENA HS is NOT an OEM card, but is instead a retail card, with custom software for retail Windows users, and native support built directly into PP2.0. More info can be found here:

https://www.aja.com/products_xena_hs.html

*XENA LH, XENA LHe, and XENA LS…for power motion graphics!*

The XENA LH/LHe and LS ships with powerful and extremely unique plug-ins for:

– Adobe After Effects 6.5 and 7
– Adobe photoshop CS and CS2
– Autodesk combustion 4
– Eyeon Fusion 5

Some of the very unique capabilties of these solutions are native support for DPX, Cineon, TGA, TIFF, BMP, AVI, and QuickTime Files, as well as the ability to record/playback/review media directly within AE and CS/CS2! These XENA’s also ship with our amazing AJA Machina software, which allows record, playback, review, and much more, in a cool stand-alone application, allowing media integration with virtually any application. Check out more info here:

https://www.aja.com/products_xena.html

Always feel free to contact AJA for support, pre-sales, and after-sales questions.

Thank you,

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AJA Video Systems
(530) 274-2048 Intl.
(800) 251-4224 US
sales@aja.com

[Jason J rodriguez]

Are there any plans for XenaLH series support in Premiere Pro 2.0?

Can the XenaHS also deal with Cineon, DPX, Quicktime, etc.?

These features that you list look like they could be very useful to users of the Production Studio as well.

Thanks,

Jason Rodriguez
Virginia Beach, VA

[Aja Sales department]

Hi-

Currently there are no plans to support PP2.0 on the LH card. As a rule, we try to only discuss what is ready for release, so there are no delayed expectations riding on potential vaporware 🙂

The XENA HS does not support Cineon, DPX, or other filer-per-frame formats, as does the LH and LHe.

Thank you,

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AJA Video Systems
(530) 274-2048 Intl.
(800) 251-4224 US
sales@aja.com

[Tip Mcpartland]

How does the Xena LH stack up against the Kona 3? And, does the Xena do anything besides capture, such as provide additional real-time capabilities?

Tip

[Aja Sales department]

“KONA” refers to our Mac-based line of PCI and PCIe products, designed for Final Cut Pro and other OSX applications. “XENA” refers to our Windows-based products, designed for use with professioanl motion graphics applications. So, a big difference there 😉

Currently there is no KONA 3 equivalent on the XENA side of things.

Thank you,

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AJA Video Systems
(530) 274-2048 Intl.
(800) 251-4224 US
sales@aja.com

[Tip Mcpartland]

Let me rephrase my question. What are the capabilities that the Kona 3 offers that are not part of the Xena feature set?

Of course I know that Kona is for Mac and Xena is for PC. I can barely resist saying “Duh!” to this snide, condescending and dodgy non-answer, but I’ll try.

Your statment that there is no equivalent to the Kona 3 in the Xena line-up comes a little closer to answering my question as it indicates that there are indeed some difference in capabilities, but I guess you’re protecting the value proposition of the current Xena line-up by not telling us what they are.

Could you please enumerate these differentiating capabilities that might be considered “third generation?”

And does your roadmap for Xena include a future product that includes these third generation features?

Tip McPartland

[John Ladle]

because of the premiere being its own feature set and fcp being its own and the facts the cards are well integrated into the applications, it is hard to seperate the two…many decisions are based on platform or applications….and then you could debate which editing suite from apple or adobe suits your needs, etc…

but i would consider hardware scaled upconvert, downconvert, HDV, DVCPRO HD scaling for deck broadcast quality to be big deals and 3rd gen…so for upconvert alone, how many hundeds of dollars per hour of videotape do you pay? own your own terranex yet? need to match SD assets to HD or HDV you just shot? happen to be an apple nut? well, maybe that one makes sense….

the xena HS is HD/SD dual rate and does 10 bit uncompressed, throws a broadcast monitor signal, but what i am looking forward to is the Premiere Pro 2.0 integration.

you really ought to find a reseller with a decent demo artist if you want to schedule a showdown or how it works for you.

[Andrew Kramer]

Well the Kona cards have better capabilities with Final Cut pro, so they support more format options when compared to the Premiere HS Xena Card.

The limitation currently lies somewhat with premiere pro 2.0 and the OpenHD format which is a good format but You don’t get to many options.

[Kevin Christopher]

The Xena HS was around long before premiere pro 2.0. In fact it is the same board once and still offered under the OEM section. Take a look at their comparison chart in the oem section.

https://www.aja.com/products_oem.html

The HS card was the original card offered by Cineform for their solution. Cineform has since moved to the Xena LH cards.

My question is why adobe chose to support the older card rather than the new? Did they buy the code from Cineform when Cineform moved forward? I am perplexed at the decisions made by Adobe. They just don’t seem to be capable of competing with FCP, or listening to there users. The whole Conforming Audio issue is just plain stupid. The whole broadcast world uses 48K 16bit audio, but premiere has to have 96k 24 bit. So I sit and wait and wait for Conforming Audio.

Kevin