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Using multiple aja products – AJA KONA 4 PCI-E Video I/O Card (HDMI Output, Cable Included) User Manual

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Using Multiple AJA Products

More than one AJA product can be installed and available to your host computer.

Using the AJA Control Panel application, you can choose which installed product

an application uses for input/output. In the upper left corner of the AJA Control

Panel application, you will see a board name, such as KONA 4-0 and the pane

heading will read “AJA Control Panel” if you have more than one product and the

associated drivers installed (if only one product is installed, you’ll see no product

or pulldown and the product name will appear in the header). To “target” a

specific installed product for use, click on the text in the upper left hand side of

the UI and select from the list of available products that appear in the pulldown.

Figure 25. Control Panel Screen Showing Multiple AJA Devices

When you launch an editing application, or AJA Control Room, the application

will use the product that is currently selected in the AJA Control Panel for its

input/output. When an application is running, you can change the “targeted”

product selection using the Control Panel pulldown menu. The running

application will retain its connection to the product. If you change the “targeted”

product and launch a different application, that application will use the new

product for its input/ output, while the first application you launched will

continue to use the other AJA product.
Example: if you select a KONA card as the targeted product in AJA Control Panel

and launch the AJA Control Room application, Control Room will now use the

KONA card for its input/output. Go back to the AJA Control Panel and select an

installed T-TAP as the “targeted” product. Now if you launch Adobe Premier Pro,

that application will use T-TAP for playback output. If you switch back to the

Control Room application, you will see that it is still using the KONA card for its

input/output. Note that some applications have a provision for playing in the

background, so playback on one product could continue when switching the

targeted device for use with another application. For example, provided you

have a sufficiently powerful host computer running a recent OS, then a possible

setup could be to capture video using the KONA card with the Control Room

application, while simultaneously viewing playback video from the Adobe

Premier Pro application through T-TAP.
Example: if you select a KONA card as the targeted product in the AJA Control

Panel application and launch an Adobe video editing application, that application

is now using the KONA card for its input/output. Go back to the AJA Control Panel

application and select an Io Express as the “targeted” product. Launch the AJA TV

application. AJA TV will now use the Io Express for its output. If you switch back to

the Adobe application, you will see that it is still using the KONA card for its input/

output. Note that some applications, like AJA TV, have a provision for playing in

the background, so playback on one product could continue when switching the

targeted device for use with another application. In such cases, it may be possible

to build a workflow whereby the output from one AJA product is fed to another

AJA product on the same system (accepting of course, that the downstream

device will have an offset from the upstream device of around 3 frames).