Magewell Pro Capture SDI Card (1-Channel)

The Pro Capture SDI supports multiple cards per system and unlimited output streams with independently adjustable parameters per stream. Additional features include ultra-low latency, timestamp and A/V synchronization, and LED status indicators. The card supports Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems, multiple APIs for Windows and Linux, and provides Windows SDKs for easier integration.

SDI Input

• Integrated cable equalizer supports cable lengths of up to 755' for HD signals
• Supports SD/HD/3Ga/3Gb/3Ga-DL/3Gb-DS standards
• Supports 2K (2048 x 1080) mode
• Supports RGB 4:4:4, YCbCr 4:4:4, YCbCr 4:2:2 color sampling
• Supports 10/12-bit color depth
• Supports extraction of SMPTE 352 payload identifier
• Supports up to 8 audio channels at 48KHz
• Supports extraction of audio formation information & channel status data
• Limited support for 3Gb-DS, only the first stream can be captured
• Limited support for 3Gb-DL:
• 2K YCbCr 4:2:2 10-bit 1080p 50/59.94/60 stream is captured as 1080i 50/59.94/60
• Other modes fully supported
• Limited support for the first link of dual-link interfaces:
• YCbCr 4:2:2 10-bit 1080p 50/59.94/60 is captured as 1080i
• YCbCr 4:4:4 10-bit is captured as 4:2:2
• RGB 4:4:4 is captured as R/B sub-sampled

Video Processing

• Two video processing pipelines with approximately 180MP/s processing bandwidth for each
• Supports full 10-bit video processing
• Video cropping and scaling
• Video de-interlacing (wave, blend top & bottom field, top field only, bottom field only)
• Aspect ratio conversion
• Automatic or manual selection of input and output aspect ratios
• Three aspect ratio conversion modes: ignore (anamorphic), cropping, or padding (letterbox or pillarbox)
• Video color format conversion
• Automatic and manual selection of input/output color formats, quantization ranges, and output saturation range
• Supports RGB, YCbCr 601, YCbCr 709, YCbCr 2020 color formats
• Limited or full quantization range
• Limited, full, and extended gamut saturation range
• Video frame rate conversion
• Video OSD composition
• PNG OSD image of up to 2048x2048
• Dynamic loading of RGBA OSD image via SDK

Multiple Cards per System

• Supports multiple cards plugged into one system
• On-board rotary switch to set card number, with 16 positions from 0 to F
• System hardware device tree will display “01: Pro Capture AIO” when rotary switch is set to 1, and so on
• The video and audio device names displayed in your software will include the card number (set by the rotary switch)

Multiple Output Streams

• Unlimited output streams for any one input channel
• Independent cropping, aspect ratio, color format, resolution, frame rate, de-interlacing, and color adjustment settings for each individual stream

Ultra-Low Latency Support

• Latency of 64 video lines
• Partial notification mode in SDK

Timestamp & AV Synchronization

• Hardware based 100ns high-resolution clock
• Audio frames (192 audio samples) & video frames are stamped with hardware clock
• Hardware clock can be synchronized across cards (via SDK)

Video Output SG-DMA

• Supports auto detection of Intel tiled GPU surface
• Supports DirectGMA for AMD video adapter chipsets
• Supports GPUDirect for NVIDIA video adapter chipsets
• 400 MB/s per channel DMA bandwidth in a PCIe 2.0 system
• 200 MB/s per channel DMA bandwidth in a PCIe 1.0 system

SDK

• Pro Capture SDK for DirectShow for easy integration (Windows)
• Pro Capture SDK for DirectKS for maximum flexibility & performance (Windows)

Windows Driver Tweaks

• All options can be controlled by three levels of registry key: global level, product level, and device level
• Video, audio, crossbar filter names can be customized via registry keys

Firmware Upgrade

• Multiple cards in one system can be upgraded simultaneously
• Cards can be upgraded without a system power shutdown when it is not in use
• Supports Safe upgrade
• If power off or system break down occur when the firmware is being upgraded, it will automatically restore to the initial version (only available for firmware version 1.21 and above)

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