AJA Ships Ki Pro Portable Digital Disk Recorder

September 03, 2009

Ki Pro Bridges Gap Between Camera Acquisition and Post,
 Recording Directly to Apple ProRes 422 Codec.   

Grass Valley, CA (September 3, 2009)—AJA Video Systems, a heading manufacturer of veteran video interface and acclimatisation solutions, currently expelled Ki Pro, a unstable tapeless video device that annals files to a Apple ProRes 422 codec directly from camera. AJA will be demonstrating Ki Pro during IBC 2009 from Sept. 11-15, 2009 during a RAI Convention Center in Amsterdam in Hall 7, Stand F-11.

Ki Pro provides a new approach of joining prolongation and post with a endless analog and digital connectivity; probably any video and audio source can be fed into Ki Pro to record primitive 10-bit ProRes 422 media that is afterwards immediately accessible to revise within Apple’s Final Cut Studio.

“We have had rare seductiveness in this product, and conspicuous pre-release sales entrance off of a new 24-city Ki Pro tellurian highway show,” pronounced Nick Rashby, president, AJA Video Systems. “We’re gratified to be shipping a really strong 1.0 version, and will be ancillary a business with visit program updates and additions. Ki Pro provides poignant workflow efficiencies for everybody from cinematographers and filmmakers to editors and post professionals.”

Ki Pro allows filmmakers, broadcasters, video professionals and prosumers to skip a routine of re-rendering to an modifying codec by giving evident entrance to full raster edit-ready Apple ProRes 422 files directly from camera. Ki Pro annals hours of media to a removable storage module. The device is a small, unstable section that can lay on a table, in a brook or mounted between a camera and tripod. Ki Pro is also ideal for on-set monitoring, providing present entrance to mixed arrangement inclination simultaneously. 

 
Core Ki Pro Features:

  • Record hours of primitive Apple ProRes 422 QuickTime media to a removable storage procedure that offers built-in FireWire 800 for evident modifying and record entrance on OSX.
  • Record natively to Apple ProRes 422 and ProRes 422 HQ for full raster 10-bit 4:2:2 HD and SD.
  • Bridge exclusive application schemes by recording to a edit-friendly Apple ProRes 422 codec.
  • Connect any digital camera around SDI or HDMI, or any analog camera with mixed submit options. 
  • Convert in genuine time from SD to HD, or 720 to/from 1080, in full 10-bit quality.
  • Extend customer examination capabilities with coexisting recording to camera and to Ki Pro.
  • Extend prolific life of existent cameras and welcome destiny workflows with absolute acclimatisation capabilities.
  • Built-in WiFi and Ethernet for finish control around a web-browser, or iPhone.

For a finish set of facilities and technical specifications, greatfully visit www.aja.com. Ki Pro is accessible now around AJA’s network of worldwide resellers for an MSRP of US$3995.

About AJA Video Systems, Inc.

Since 1993, AJA Video has been a heading manufacturer of high-quality and cost-effective digital video interface, acclimatisation and Desktop solutions ancillary a veteran promote and post- prolongation markets. With domicile in Grass Valley, California, AJA maintains an endless sales channel of dealers and systems integrators around a world. For serve information, greatfully see a website www.aja.com.

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