ColorBox From AJA: Increasing Colour Accuracy Across The Board

AJA's newest box uses sophisticated algorithms and LUT processing with HDR/WCG transform tools to ensure colour accuracy across productions.

AJA's ColorBox portable, high-performance device, which aims to provide precise and accurate colour space conversions for live broadcast, live events, on-set production, and post, is the main new attraction at IBC. ColorBox also has inline algorithmic colour transforms and LUT processing capabilities. In essence, it's a tidy, portable box that supports a variety of HDR and SDR conversions, enables DITs to quickly load, modify, and save looks, as well as produce reference images for dailies to guarantee colour accuracy among all production stakeholders and creative vendors.

It has a sizable number of features because it was made to support a wide variety of look management techniques used on-set and in live production settings. It supports up to 4K/UltraHD 60p 10-bit YCbCr 4:2:2 and 30p 12-bit RGB 4:4:4 signals and has 12G-SDI in/out and HDMI 2.0 out.

It includes AJA Color Pipeline (ACP) Mode with two 3x3 user-configurable matrices, four built-in user-configurable 1D LUTs, and a 33-point 3D LUT processor with tetrahedral LUT interpolation. A built-in RGB colour corrector, ProcAmp, large LUT, image libraries, strong capture and recall abilities, ancillary (ANC) metadata management, and more are also advantageous to users. Thankfully, a built-in web browser-based interface makes it simple to control everything.

One of ColorBox's five available modes is active at all times. These include Colorfront, ORION-CONVERT, BBC HLG LUT (both on an optional licence with a watermarked preview), AJA Color Pipeline (ACP), and NBCU LUT.

Comprehensive frame capturing features include pipeline configuration, user-customizable user text, and pre-processed image capture or post-processed output capture for reference stills. These frame captures can be locally saved and exported to the configuration computer running the ColorBox user interface that is accessed through a web browser.

Users can easily set up ColorBox wirelessly using a USB WiFi adapter from a third party by using a built-in USB OTG port. Up to 4K/UHD video is available for local monitoring via 12G-SDI and HDMI 2.0, and a separate 12G-SDI loop through output is available for connecting the unaltered source to other electronics.

According to AJA President Nick Rashby, "Reliable, high end colour processing and display have become essential to creating scripted and live content that resonates with audiences. AJA developed ColorBox in response to this demand." "We've provided an unmatched and flexible image processing toolset in this device by leveraging our extensive engineering background in HDR and conversion technology, as well as third-party partnerships with experts in colour science. We're excited to introduce ColorBox to the market because it streamlines colour management and display for a variety of settings, including creative, editorial, and finishing studios as well as TV, episodic, film, live event, and commercial production.

It's currently accessible from 3DBroadcast for £1,789 ex VAT with