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KONA LHe Plus Installation & Operation Guide — Using Multiple AJA Products

The AJA Control Panel in-use message will tell you the “active” application that has control of

KONA (see in-use message above) and what the format selections are. If you click on another

supported application that is running such as Adobe Premiere Pro or AJA TV, the AJA Control

Panel in-use message will report the change by displaying the new application in control. If no

in-use message is displayed, the AJA Control Panel is in control of KONA. If no QuickTime

applications are running, the board’s state is determined by the AJA Control Panel application’s

settings.

QuickTime Application Format Selection

If a running QuickTime application uses KONA for capture or output, it controls the Primary

format via its own menus and settings. For example, when the editing application is active (it’s

the front-most application) and has KONA as its “A/V Device”, then the KONA's Primary format is

determined by the applications Video Playback submenu (under the “View” menu) or its “Audio/

Video Settings...” dialog under A/V Devices. These format selections are reported in the AJA

Control Panel block diagram.

QuickTime applications can start and stop and change modes—even while they are running.

And the behavior of different QuickTime applications can vary: some applications take control

of the interface as soon as they are launched and don't give it up until they quit, while other

applications take control of the interface only when they are the “front-most” running

application and then relinquish control when they’re not. Even these QuickTime applications

may not relinquish control until capture or output operations are completed.

Control Recommendations

We recommend you have the Control Panel running and visible at all times. When the Control

Panel is running in the background (not front-most) you can see what the interface is doing and

who has control of it.

Using Multiple AJA Products

Starting with the v7.5 drivers, more than one AJA product can be used with 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 Kona3G - 0, 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). 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.

When you launch a third-party application or AJA TV, that application will use the product that

is currently selected in the AJA Control Panel application for its input/output. Once an

application is running, you can change the "targeted" product selection in the AJA Control Panel

and select a different product. 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: select a KONA 3G as the targeted product in the AJA Control Panel application.

Launch Final Cut Pro 7. Final Cut Pro 7 is now using the KONA 3G for its input/output. Go

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