XENA Overview 

Meet the XENA Family
AJA's new XENA line of video and audio I/O cards is designed for serious editing, graphic and design professionals. Now you can record, review and print SD/HD video with unmatched software capabilities.

XENA Workflow
XENA cards support a wide variety of workflows, from analog to combined HD/SD, Dual Link, HSDL and 2K. All XENA products, except XENA HS, ship with AJA's Machina™, our powerful stand-alone deck-control, playback and capture application, along with a host of powerful plug-ins for seamless integration with leading editing, graphics and effects applications, including Adobe CS3—Premiere® Pro, Adobe After Effects®, Adobe Photoshop®, plus Autodesk® Combustion® and Eyeon Fusion®. Optimal file format support is offered in QuickTime and AVI, as well as in file-per-frame formats such as DPX, Cineon, TIFF, TGA and BMP.

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SDI, HD-SDI, Dual Link SD and HD-SDI 4:4:4, and 4:4:4:4, 2K HSDL

12-bit HD component and SD component/composite analog output

Broadcast-quality hardware 10-bit up-/down-/crossconversion

8-channel 48K AES, and 16-channel SDI embedded audio

Native support for uncompressed DPX, Cineon, TGA, TIFF, BMP, YUV, AVI and QuickTime files

2K frame format support

Look Up Table (LUT) support

RS-422 machine control

AJA Machina software

AJA Plugin Support for Adobe Premiere Pro CS3/2.0, Adobe After Effects CS3/7.0, Photoshop CS3/CS2, Autodesk Combustion 4, and Eyeon Fusion 5.

Cables standard, K3-Box breakout optional

3-year international warranty

Available with 4-lane PCI-express bus interface as XENA 2Ke

Available with PCI-X 133 interface as XENA 2K
10-bit uncompressed SD/HD capture card

12-bit HD analog component I/O

12-bit SD analog component or composite/YC I/O

10-bit hardware HD to SD downconversion

Native support for DPX, Cineon, TGA, TIFF, BMP, AVI and QuickTime files

SDI or HD-SDI input

2 independent SDI/HD-SDI outputs

2-channel balanced XLR AES and 2-channel balanced XLR analog audio I/O

8-channel SDI embedded audio I/O

HD/SD Genlock

RS-422 machine control

AJA Machina software

AJA Plugin Support for Adobe Premiere Pro CS3/2.0, Adobe After Effects CS3/7.0, Photoshop CS3/CS2, Autodesk Combustion 4, and Eyeon Fusion 5.

XENA 3rd-party Support for Avid Liquid Chrome Xe (LHe only—LH not supported), Sony Vegas, and Sonic CineVision PSE.

Cables standard, KL-Box breakout optional

3-year warranty

Available in PCIe as XENA LHe

Available in PCI/PCI-X compatible as XENA LH
12-bit component/composite S-video analog I/O

SDI input, 2 independent SDI outputs

AES I/O, sample-rate conversion on input (2 channel, XLR)

Balanced analog audio I/O (2 channel, XLR)

8-channel SDI embedded audio support

Broadcast-quality TBC with VHS support

Support for TGA, TIFF, BMP, AVI and QuickTime files

Support for all popular standard definition formats (NTSC and PAL)

Genlock and RS-422 machine control

AJA Machina software

AJA Plugin Support for Adobe Premiere Pro CS3/2.0, Adobe After Effects CS3/7.0, Photoshop CS3/CS2, Autodesk Combustion 4, and Eyeon Fusion 5.

XENA 3rd-party Support for Sony Vegas.

Cables standard, KL-Box breakout optional

3-year warranty

Available in PCIe as XENA LSe

Available in PCI compatible as XENA LS
Integrates with Adobe Production Studio™ (Adobe Premiere 2.0™ native support for XENA HS)

AJA XENA HS software plug-ins for Adobe After Effects CS3/7, and Photoshop CS3/CS2

Supports SMPTE 292M (SDI) digital video (HD), 10-bit uncompressed

Supports SMPTE 259M (SDI) digital video (SD), 10-bit uncompressed

1 video input, 1 video output

AES audio I/O: supports up to 6 channels of 24-bit/48kHz AES Audio, AES inputs support asynchronous audio at 32-96kHz

Cable provided

3-year warranty
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