AJA - Ki Pro

Overview

When working at DT Engineering I designed AJA's Ki Pro Go an award winning Portable H.264 HD and SD digital video recorder/player; it is the latest of the Ki Pro family. Ki Pro GO’s predecessors are the Ki Pro Ultra & the Ki Pro Ultra Plus, when designing the Ki Pro GO it was important to retain AJA’s styling and looks while at the same time creating a new product which will fit into the previous lineage. In turn I made subtle upgrades to the exterior while adding new critical features which make it stand out from today’s video transfer products.  

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Retain 2U chassis for mounting

  • Optimize touch screen size without compromising the surrounding features

  • Create custom bonding solution for touch screen

  • 5 custom PCBs

  • Custom lightpipe

  • Retain 2 preexisting PCB configurations

  • Custom cabling

  • Chassis and bezel to prevent EMI frequencies from escaping

  • Custom forced air convection system

  • Custom front Magnesium bezel

Ki Pro Ultra 12G 4K/UHD/2K Recorder and Player Overview

Ki Pro Ultra 12G is the latest digital video player and recorder to join the Ki Pro family of products. Ki Pro Ultra 12G builds upon it’s predecessor, the Ki Pro Ultra Plus product by adding 12G-SDI support as well as 12G compatible Optical Fiber SFP cages. Ki Pro Ultra 12G offers HDR support via HDMI and SDI, for both recording and playout giving immense flexibility as both recorder and player for HDR material.

Multi-channel HD recording is available, offering versatile menu options to mix and match codec profiles and user selectable audio channels. Configurable Matrix Monitoring outputs on SDI and HDMI allows monitoring on one external display, plus audio VU meters display levels for each of the channels being recorded.

The new enhanced super out functionality now adds VU meters and media status to the onscreen overlay output.