AJA Video Systems has announced the new Ki Pro Ultra Plus at the 2017 NAB Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. The video capture device offers the capability of 1, 2, 3, or 4-channel simultaneous HD recording up to 1080 50/60p and full HDMI 2.0 for 4k/UltraHD workflows.
The Ki Pro Ultra Plus is ideal for recording multi-cam shoots in HD multi-channel mode, and 4K/UltraHD recording and playback in single-channel mode. The device is housed in a compact, easy-to-operate, standalone 2RU half-rack and has multiple I/O flexibility and connectivity options including 3G-SDI, HDMI 2.0 and optional fiber connections. It also captures 4K/UltraHD and HD video to widely accepted production codecs including Apple ProRes and Avid DNxHD MXF.
All channels of HD can be recorded simultaneously as Apple ProRes files, each with different compression profiles as desired, to the company's AJA Pak 1000 SSD media drives. It also features the Ki Protect technology, ensuring that in the event of power failure or inadvertent withdrawal of a Pak Drive, recently recorded footage is always secure. All four channels can be displayed on the front LCD screen as a quad-split during capture for confidence monitoring, as well as the ability to output the quad-split over HDMI, SDI and even on the integrated browser-based web UI.
The Ki Pro Ultra Plus will ship soon at a cost of $3995. AJA Pak SSD storage drives are available as: 256GB $495, 512GB $995, and 1TB $1495.
