AJA
AJA
ColorBox from AJA with LUT Color Transforms
Converter for color managed workflows designed to specifically meet your conversion needsConverter for color managed workflows designed to specifically meet your conversion needs
- Product code
- COLORBOX
- Category
- Video
- Weight
- 0.5 kg
Specifications
- HDR/WCG Real Time Processor
- HDR to HDR
- HDR/WCG Real Time Processor
- HDR to SDR
- HDR/WCG Real Time Processor
- SDR to HDR
- HDR/WCG Real Time Processor
- BT.709 and BT.2020
- Video Formats
- (4K) 4096x2160p
- Video Formats
- (UltraHD) 3840x2160p
- Video Formats
- (2K) 2048x1080p
- Video Formats
- (HD) 1920x1080p
- Video Formats
- (HD) 1920x1080i
- Video Formats
- (HD) 1280x720p
- Color Processing Pipeline
- Processes in 12-bit RGB
- Color Processing Pipeline
- 6x pipelines; AJA Color, Colorfront, ORION-CONVERT, BBC HLG LUTs, NBCU LUTs, ACES
- Color Processing Pipeline
- 7x processing nodes plus Overlay in AJA Color; 4x 1D LUTs, 2x 3x3 Matrices, 1x 3D LUT
- AJA Color Pipeline (ACP)
- 1D LUT, 3x3 Matrix, 1D LUT, 3D LUT, 1D LUT, 3x3 Matrix, 1D LUT, Overlay
- AJA Color Pipeline (ACP)
- Supports custom 33-point .CUBE, .SPI3D, and .3DL format 3D LUTs*, .CLF and .CTF
- AJA Color Pipeline (ACP)
- Supports custom 10 and 12-bit .CUBE and .SPI1D format 1D LUTs
- AJA Color Pipeline (ACP)
- Supports custom .SPIMTX format matrices
- AJA Color Pipeline (ACP)
- Tetrahedral 3D LUT interpolation
- AJA Color Pipeline (ACP)
- Configurable Color Space, Range, and Transfer Characteristic
- AJA Color Pipeline (ACP)
- ARRI Alexa 35’s Wireless Video Optimized LogC4 (WVO) Decoder
- AJA Color Pipeline (ACP)
- Nonvolatile storage of 16x 3D LUTs, 16x 1D LUTs, and 16x 3x3 Matrices
- AJA Color Pipeline (ACP)
- *Various 3D LUT sizes are supported but will be converted to 33-point for processing
- Dynamic LUT Processing
- Supports third party apps for automatic loading and display of 3D LUTs
- Dynamic LUT Processing
- Reflects dynamic changes in real time from source software
- Dynamic LUT Processing
- Full frame LUT processing
- Dynamic LUT Processing
- Pomfort Livegrade Pro and Studio
- Dynamic LUT Processing
- Assimilate Live Looks and Live Assist
- Dynamic LUT Processing
- QTAKE Video Assist
- Colorfront Pipeline
- Processing Based on Human Perception Model
- Colorfront Pipeline
- Perceptually optimized color volume remapping
- Colorfront Pipeline
- Preserves the original creative intent
- Colorfront Pipeline
- TV Mode for applications such as television broadcast
- Colorfront Pipeline
- Live Mode for applications such as broadcast, OTT, A/V
- Colorfront Pipeline
- SDR to Dolby Vision Preview Mode for applications such as broadcast and postproduction
- Colorfront Pipeline
- SDR BT.709 100 Nits
- Colorfront Pipeline
- SDR Extended BT.709
- Colorfront Pipeline
- PQ BT.2020 1000 Nits
- Colorfront Pipeline
- PQ P3D65 1000 Nits
- Colorfront Pipeline
- Hybrid Log Gamma BT.2100
- Colorfront Pipeline
- HLG Extended BT.709
- Colorfront Pipeline
- HLG Extended BT.2100
- Colorfront Pipeline
- Sony S-Log3 S-Gamut3
- Colorfront Pipeline
- Sony S-Log3 S-Gamut3 Cine
- Colorfront Pipeline
- Sony S-Log3 BT.2020
- Colorfront Pipeline
- ARRI Log C Wide Gamut
- Colorfront Pipeline
- ARRI LogC4 Wide Gamut 4
- Colorfront Pipeline
- ARRI LogC4 Wide Gamut 4 WVO
- Colorfront Pipeline
- Panasonic V-log
- Colorfront Pipeline
- RED Log3G10 Wide Gamut
- Colorfront Pipeline
- Canon Log 2
- Colorfront Pipeline
- Canon Log 3
- Colorfront Pipeline
- PQ BT.2020 ConstrainP3
- Colorfront Pipeline
- TV Mode controls
- Colorfront Pipeline
- Colorfulness control for managing the Hunt Effect
- Color Correction
- Lift, Gamma, Gain, Saturation
- Camera Correction
- Exposure, Color Temp, Tint
- Colorfront Pipeline
- Roundtrip control ensures technical match
- Colorfront Pipeline
- Clamp to Legal
- Colorfront Pipeline
- SDR Preview
- Colorfront Pipeline
- HDR Amount
- Colorfront Pipeline
- Ambient Light Compensation control
- Colorfront Pipeline
- HDR Log Look
- Colorfront Pipeline
- SDR Softness control
- PQ Output Nit level
- 48-4000 Nit
- Colorfront Pipeline
- PQ Output P3 Colorspace Clamp
- Colorfront Pipeline
- ITU-R BT.2408 Mode control
- Highlights
- Low, Mid, High
- Contrast
- Low, Mid, High
- ORION-CONVERT Pipeline
- Conversion algorithm that uses floating point math
- ORION-CONVERT Pipeline
- Pre and post transform Knee and Amount controls
- ORION-CONVERT Pipeline
- Display-Light and Scene-Light Modes
- ORION-CONVERT Pipeline
- Configurable HDR and SDR IRE Reference anchor points
- ORION-CONVERT Pipeline
- Configurable HDR Peak Nits sets system gamma for display light conversions
- ORION-CONVERT Pipeline
- Gamma Compensation
- ORION-CONVERT Pipeline
- Configurable Output Clamping
- ORION-CONVERT Pipeline
- SDR BT.709
- ORION-CONVERT Pipeline
- PQ BT.2020
- ORION-CONVERT Pipeline
- HLG BT.2100
- BBC HLG LUTs Pipeline
- SDR/BT.709 Scene Referred to HLG/BT.2100 v1.7
- BBC HLG LUTs Pipeline
- SDR/BT.709 Scene Referred to HLG/BT.2100 Strict v1.7
- BBC HLG LUTs Pipeline
- SDR/BT.709 Scene Referred UpMap to HLG/BT.2100 v1.7
- BBC HLG LUTs Pipeline
- SDR/BT.709 Scene Referred UpMap to HLG/BT.2100 Strict v1.7
- BBC HLG LUTs Pipeline
- SDR/BT.709 Display Referred to HLG/BT.2100 v.1.7
- BBC HLG LUTs Pipeline
- SDR/BT.709 Display Referred UpMap to HLG/BT.2100 v1.7
- BBC HLG LUTs Pipeline
- SDR/BT.2020 Display Referred to HLG/BT.2100 v1.7
- BBC HLG LUTs Pipeline
- SDR/BT.2020 Display Referred UpMap to HLG/BT.2100 v1.7
- BBC HLG LUTs Pipeline
- PQ 1000 Nits Display Referred to HLG/BT.2100 v1.7
- BBC HLG LUTs Pipeline
- PQ 4000 Nits Display Referred to HLG/BT.2100 v1.7
- BBC HLG LUTs Pipeline
- S-Log3/BT.2020 100% Scene Referred to HLG/BT.2100 v1.7
- BBC HLG LUTs Pipeline
- S-Log3/BT.2020 200% Scene Referred(SR-Live) to HLG/BT.2100 v1.7
- BBC HLG LUTs Pipeline
- HLG/BT.2100 to SDR/BT.709 Scene Referred v1.7
- BBC HLG LUTs Pipeline
- HLG/BT.2100 to SDR/BT.709 Scene Referred Strict v1.7
- BBC HLG LUTs Pipeline
- HLG/BT.2100 to SDR/BT.709 Display Referred Color Appearance Model v1.7
- BBC HLG LUTs Pipeline
- HLG/BT.2100 to SDR/BT.709 Display Referred Super White v1.7
- BBC HLG LUTs Pipeline
- HLG/BT.2100 to PQ 1000 Nits Display Referred v1.7
- BBC HLG LUTs Pipeline
- HLG/BT.2100 to SDR/BT.2020 Display Referred Super White v1.7
- BBC HLG LUTs Pipeline
- SDR/BT.709 Scene Referred UpMap to HLG/BT.2100 to SDR/BT.709 Display Referred v1.7
- BBC HLG LUTs Pipeline
- RGB Color Corrector and ProcAmp
- NBCU LUTs Pipeline
- 1-NBCU_SDR2HLG_DL_v1.1, SDR UpMap to HLG using Display Light v1.1
- NBCU LUTs Pipeline
- 2-NBCU_SDR2HLG_SL_v1, SDR to HLG using Scene Light v1.0
- NBCU LUTs Pipeline
- 3-NBCU_HLG2SDR_DL_v1.1, HLG to SDR using Display Light v1.1
- NBCU LUTs Pipeline
- 4-NBCU_SDR2PQ_DL_v1, SDR UpMap to PQ using Display Light v1.0
- NBCU LUTs Pipeline
- 5-NBCU_PQ2SDR_DL_v1, PQ to SDR using Display Light v1.0
- NBCU LUTs Pipeline
- 7-NBCU_HLG10002PQ_v1, HLG 1000 Nits to PQ v1.0
- NBCU LUTs Pipeline
- RGB Color Corrector and ProcAmp
- ACES Pipeline
- ACES Metadata File (AMF) processing
- ACES Pipeline
- Implementation using ACES v1.3
- ACES Pipeline
- Built using OpenColorIO (OCIO)
- ACES Pipeline
- ARRI Alexa 35’s Wireless Video Optimized LogC4 (WVO) Decoder
- ACES Pipeline
- Nonvolatile storage of 16x AMFs
- Video Input and Output SDI
- 1x 12G-SDI Input BNC, SMPTE-292/424/2081/2082
- Video Input and Output SDI
- 2x 12G-SDI Output BNCs, SMPTE-292/424/2081/2082
- YCbCr 4
- 2:2/4:4:4
- RGB 4
- 4:4, SMPTE or Full level
- Video Input and Output SDI
- 10 or 12-bit
- Video Input and Output SDI
- (4K) 4096x2160p 23.98, 24, 25, 29.97, 30, 47.95, 48, 50, 59.94, 60
- Video Input and Output SDI
- (UltraHD) 3840x2160p 23.98, 24, 25, 29.97, 30, 50, 59.94, 60
- Video Input and Output SDI
- (4K) 4096x2160p 23.98, 24, 25, 29.97, 30
- Video Input and Output SDI
- (UltraHD) 3840x2160p 23.98, 24, 25, 29.97, 30
- Video Input and Output SDI
- (2K) 2048x1080p 23.98, 24, 25, 47.95, 48, 50
- Video Input and Output SDI
- (2K) 2048x1080PsF 23.98, 24, 25
- Video Input and Output SDI
- (HD) 1920x1080p 23.98, 24, 25, 29.97, 30, 50, 59.94, 60
- Video Input and Output SDI
- (HD) 1920x1080PsF 23.98, 24, 25, 29.97, 30
- Video Input and Output SDI
- (HD) 1920x1080i 50, 59.94, 60
- Video Input and Output SDI
- (HD) 1280x720p 50, 59.94, 60
- Video Input and Output SDI
- (2K) 2048x1080p 23.98, 24, 25, 29.97, 30
- Video Input and Output SDI
- (HD) 1920x1080p 23.98, 24, 25, 29.97, 30
- Note
- Raster and Frame Rate Dependent, please see ColorBox Video Formats in Documents and Manual
- Video Output HDMI
- 1x HDMI Type A connector*, HDMI v2.0b
- Video Output HDMI
- HDR infoframe generation with pass-through for Colorimetry and Transfer Characteristic
- YCbCr 4
- 2:2
- 8, 10, or 12-bit (HFR 4K/UltraHD 4
- 4:4 limited to 8-bit)
- Video Output HDMI
- 4K/UltraHD/2K/HD
- Video Output HDMI
- 4K/2K Crop to UltraHD or HD
- *
- If a connected monitor doesn’t support HDMI protocol, the unit automatically switches to DVI protocol (which does not pass audio)
- Video Processing
- Nominal video delay is less than 0.5 of a video line and less than 4.5 video lines when down-converting
- Video Processing
- Motion adaptive deinterlacer
- Video Processing
- Proc Amp controls
- Video Processing
- Color corrector
- Video Processing
- Legalizer
- Down-Conversion
- Hardware 10-bit
- Down-Conversion
- 4K to 2K or UltraHD to HD (1920x1080)
- Frame Store
- Capture and Recall up to 4K/UltraHD 16-bit .TIFF
- Frame Store
- Capture and Recall .TIFF, .PNG, .JPEG
- Frame Store
- Capture input or output
- Frame Store
- Nonvolatile storage of 16 images
- Test Pattern Generator
- 10 or 12-bit
- Test Pattern Generator
- 14x patterns built-in
- Test Pattern Generator
- SDR and HDR test patterns
- Ancillary Data
- All embedded ANC packets pass-through, including camera ancillary data
- Overlay
- User Text
- Overlay
- Input and Output ancillary information, including VPID
- Overlay
- Timecode presence
- Overlay
- Closed Captioning presence
- Overlay
- Pipeline Configuration
- Overlay
- User Overlay, Recall .PNG overlay images up to 4096x2160
- Overlay
- Nonvolatile storage of 16 overlays
- Audio Input Digital
- SDI embedded audio, 24-bit, 16-channel
- Audio Output Digital
- SDI embedded audio, 24-bit, 16-channel
- Audio Output Digital
- HDMI embedded audio, 24-bit, 8-channel
- Network Interface
- 1x RJ-45, 10/100/1000 Ethernet
- Network Interface
- Embedded web server for remote control
- Network Interface
- REST Interface
- Network Interface
- WiFi control available via third party WiFi USB adapter*
- Network Interface
- *Linksys AC1200 WUSB6300 and Netgear AC1900 A7000
- USB Interface
- 1x Mini-USB for IP configuration using AJA eMini-Setup
- Presets
- 10 Pipeline Presets per mode (AJA Color, Colorfront, ORION-CONVERT, BBC HLG LUTs, NBCU LUTs, ACES)
- Presets
- Startup Preset
- Size (w x d x h)
- 4.10" x 7.54" x 1.66" (104.1 x 191.6 x 42.1 mm)
- Weight
- 1.0 lb (0.5 kg)
- Power
- External power supply required
- Enclosure
- 10-18VDC regulated, 4-pin mini-XLR, 16W typical 3G-SDI, 21W typical 12G-SDI, 25W max.
- AC Adapter, included
- 100-240VAC, 50/60 Hz, universal input, 60W
- Power
- Optional spare AC adapter sold separately, AJA-PWR-12-60W
- Safe Operating Temperature
- 0 to 50 C (32 to 122 F)
- Safe Storage Temperature (Power OFF)
- -40 to 60 C (-40 to 140 F)
- Operating Relative Humidity
- 10-90% noncondensing
- Operating Altitude
- <3,000 meters (<10,000 feet)
Documents
- Datasheetspec sheet
- Quick startAJA eMini Setup Quick Start Guide v2.4.2
- FirmwareRelease Notes
- FirmwareRelease Notes
- FirmwareRelease Notes
- FirmwareRelease Notes
- FirmwareRelease Notes
- FirmwareRelease Notes
- FirmwareRelease Notes
- FirmwareRelease Notes
- FirmwareRelease Notes
- FirmwareRelease Notes
- FirmwareRelease Notes
- FirmwareRelease Notes
- FirmwareRelease Notes
- FirmwareRelease Notes
- FirmwareRelease Notes
- FirmwareRelease Notes
- FirmwareRelease Notes
- FirmwareRelease Notes
- DocumentAJA ColorBox and OG ColorBox Partner FAQ April 2025
- DocumentAJA ColorBox Manual v3.0
- DocumentColorBox Video Formats
- DocumentDownload Workflow
- DocumentDownload Workflow
- DocumentDownload Workflow
- DocumentDownload Workflow
- DocumentDownload Workflow
- DocumentDownload Workflow
- DocumentORION CONVERT User Manual v1.1
- Documentread_me
Documents are hosted by the manufacturer; these are links to their files.
