AJA ColorBox HDR/SDR Colour Converter

Description

The AJA ColorBox HDR/SDR Colour Converter is a compact, high-performance converter for colour managed workflows designed to specifically meet the conversion needs of broadcast, live events, and on-set applications. Supporting Standard Dynamic Range (SDR), High Dynamic Range (HDR), and Wide Colour Gamut (WCG) signals, it utilises 12G-SDI and HDMI 2.0 for single wire 4K/UltraHD HDR up to 4:2:2 10-bit 60p or 4:4:4 12-bit 30p with a unique colour processing pipeline.

Built around the 33-point 3D LUT processor with tetrahedral interpolation, AJA Colour Pipeline provides additional 4x 1D LUTs and 2x 3x3 matrices that are each individually configurable even as Proc Amps or RGB Colour Correctors. Easily manage colour processing options via the web user interface which can be accessed directly from a wired Ethernet connection or through a wireless connection via a third party WiFi USB adapter.

ColourBox includes processing pipeline modes from Colourfront and NBCU LUTs, as well as a powerful AJA Colour Pipeline. ColorBox also expands its capabilities by offering licensable upgrade options for advanced colour managed workflows, including BBC HLG LUTs and the all new ORION-CONVERT engine. ORION-CONVERT’s unique real-time floating point math approach to colour transforms produces higher precision results to get “access to the colours between the colours.” This enables pixel perfect colour transforms and round tripping where maintaining colours is paramount.

ColorBox also offers a sophisticated test pattern generator and frame store, bringing useful tools to your workflow, including the ability to capture up to a 4K image as a 16-bit .tiff file for the highest quality reference stills. ColorBox can even overlay information onto the image, including helpful user definable text fields. These images can be saved locally on ColorBox or onto a third party connected PC running an application like Pomfort’s Livegrade Pro/Studio and Assimilate Live Looks.