With a worldwide heritage in live production switchers — from designing the first true multiformat switcher to the creative power and flexibility of switchers that offer all formats from SD to 4K UHD, and connectivity allowing you to mix traditional SDI and IP — Grass Valley brings you the Kahuna family of production switchers.
The Kahuna 4800, Kahuna 6400 and Kahuna 9600 offer more firepower and flexibility in the Kahuna family than ever before, including 4K UHD and HDR capabilities across all Kahuna switchers.
Together with Kahuna Maverik — Grass Valley’s Kahuna family switcher control surface — the Kahuna family provides a large feature set, including more power for M/E functionality and enhanced DVE resize engines.
The three switchers in the Kahuna family provide more power and flexibility than ever before.
Kahuna 9600
Up to 24 M/Es
48 keyers
The most powerful switcher in the Kahuna family, the Kahuna 9600 is an enterprise-class switcher offering an unmatched feature set to meet the needs of the highest caliber of productions.
Kahuna 6400
Up to 12 M/Es
24 keyers
The Kahuna 6400 delivers huge power and flexibility to the widest range of applications including regional news, sports production, houses of worship and magazine programs.
Kahuna 4800
Up to 4 M/Es
16 keyers
Offering superb value for money, the Kahuna 4800 is an immensely capable and well-engineered mid-level production switcher.
Key Features
Creativity
Freedom in combining mixers, keyers and DVE effects to create any on-air style
Built-in intelligence allows the switcher to handle the mundane, freeing you to create great productions
Productivity
Dramatically reduce the overhead of show setup times
Advanced file workflow tools enable you to turn around content in seconds
Reliability
Designed for mission critical operations with a hot-swappable architecture
Innovative automated features provide even greater on-air confidence
Flexibility
Unique Make M/E technology allows users to select available switcher resources to create a tailor-made M/E for specific requirements
FormatFusion3 enables true multiformat operations, supporting any combination of SD, HD, 1080p (level A & B) and 4K UHD. This eliminates the need for external conversion, reducing capital outlay, removing system timing issues and saving engineering setup time
New FormatFusion4 technology raises the bar again, bringing seamless HDR capabilities to Kahuna. All inputs and outputs can independently handle HLG, PQ and S-Log3 for color spaced BT709 SDR and BT2020 HDR for workflows in 4K UHD and HD. The core of the switcher can also be set to the desired EOTF and WCG setting
Kahuna supports HD SDI, IP and 12 Gb/s SDI single-link across the entire range. For productions from 4K UHD through to HD, Kahuna has an unmatched feature set. Now all that switcher power can be deployed in the new and emerging IP workflows or 12 Gb/s SDI single link plants without any creative compromise
Kahuna Production Switcher Family: 24 M/E, 12 M/E and 4 M/E Multiformat Switchers with HDR Support Datasheet
Fully-featured live production at 4K UHD, HD and SD — for both IP and SDI operations.
With a worldwide heritage in live production switchers — from designing the first true multiformat switcher to the creative power and flexibility of switchers that offer all formats from SD to 4K UHD, and connectivity allowing you to mix traditional SDI and IP — Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, brings you the Kahuna family of production switchers.
The Kahuna 4800, Kahuna 6400 and Kahuna 9600 offer more firepower and flexibility in the Kahuna family than ever before, including 4K UHD and HDR capabilities across all Kahuna switchers.
Posted Mar 05 2019 (GVB-1-0703C-EN-DS) File Size: 4.7 MB
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