AJA XENA LHe offers a full ride to HD with no-compromise, 10-bit and 8-bit uncompressed video, 2-channel AES and 8-channel embedded audio, analog composite/component video I/O, 2-channel analog audio I/O, 10-bit broadcast-quality hardware HD to SD downconversion and TBC on analog inputs. XENA LHe bridges the analog and digital worlds by offering I/O for both. Requires a 4-lane PCIe (PCI Express) slot.

XENA LHe comes standard with a breakout cable and also works with the optional KL-Box for rackmounted I/O convenience. Supporting native 10-bit resolution, XENA LHe provides optimum quality for SD and HD - the maximum allowed in SMPTE SDI standards. Using many user-selected formats - DPX, Cineon, TGA, TIFF, BMP, AVI or QuickTimeT - XENA LHe captures directly to disk. In addition to top-quality video, XENA LHe offers all the audio support you'll ever want: multi-channel audio and 16/24/32-bit AES/EBU digital audio at 48kHz for digital production. For ease of use, XENA LHe also includes hardware sample-rate conversion on AES inputs, eliminating source synchronizing requirements.

As the only card available supporting HD/SD analog I/O, XENA LHe is perfect for many diverse workflows, including analog component connections from HDV cameras that allow direct ingest of HDV-acquired material into uncompressed or any other supported file format. These 12-bit analog inputs and outputs, in addition to 10-bit digital I/O's, ensure that XENA LHe can interface with almost any Single Link digital or analog HD or SD video format you throw at it.

XENA LHe also provides AJA's incredible 10-bit hardware HD to SD downconversion, which can be applied to any or all inputs or outputs. Digitize HD into space-efficient SD for offline work. Monitor HD files on an SD monitor. Make analog or digital SD tape masters from an HD project. Awesome workflow capabilities are yours with XENA LHe.

Features:

• 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
• Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0, Adobe After Effects 7.0, Photoshop CS/CS2, Autodesk Combustion 4 and Eyeon Fusion5 plug-ins and support
• Cables standard, KL-Box breakout optional
• 3-year warranty

Minimum System Requirements:

• Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 2 or later.
• Dual Processor (2 physical Opteron or Xeon CPUs with an 800MHz FSB.)
• Requires a 4-lane PCIe (PCI Express) slot for the Xena card.
• 16 lane PCIe NVidea graphics card (128MB minimum).
• Minimum 2 GB of DDR-2 memory.
• 20GB+ hard drive for software installation
• SCSI or FIBRE controller must be on the PCI-X 133 bus. See the AJA Video website (www.aja.com/html/support_xenaLHe_swd.html) for approved XENA RAID configurations. Refer to the table below for the required sustained transfer rates for various video formats.