Grass Valley, CA - AJA Video Systems, a leading manufacturer of professional video interface and conversion solutions, today released two new software updates that add support for Adobe CS5.5 to AJA’s Io Express and KONA family of products for both Mac and Windows customers. The software updates, AJA Windows Software 5.5 and AJA Mac Plugins for Adobe 9.0.1 bring added support for Adobe CS5.5 and dramatically improve AJA software performance with the Mercury Playback Engine in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5.

Customers using AJA’s Io Express and KONA products can download the software updates free of charge here: http://www.aja.com/support/.

“Adobe offers powerful features to support the professional creative and editing community with the release of CS5.5, and our latest updates enable big performance boosts with the Adobe Mercury Playback engine for our KONA and Io Express customers using Adobe Premiere Pro,” said Nick Rashby, President, AJA Video Systems.

For more information about AJA’s Io Express and KONA family of products, please visit www.aja.com.

Since 1993, AJA Video has been a leading manufacturer of high-quality and cost-effective digital video interface, acquisition, conversion and Desktop solutions supporting the professional broadcast and post- production markets. With headquarters in Grass Valley, California, AJA maintains an extensive sales channel of dealers and systems integrators around the world. For further information, please see our website www.aja.com.