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Blackmagic SDI HDMI Mini-Converter

SD to HDMI Mini Converter

Blackmagic Design's founders have had a long history in post-production editing and engineering. With extensive experiences in high-end telecine, film and post, harnessed with a real passion for perfection, Blackmagic set out to change the industry forever.

Blackmagic has created some of the most talked about products in the industry. In November 2002, they launched the DeckLink capture card and in doing so single-handedly made working in true 10 bit uncompressed video on a Macintosh OS X™ system an affordable reality. The DeckLink card has become a market-leading product due to Blackmagic Design's philosophy of delivering "what ever it takes to give creative editors and designers the very best quality tools".

Blackmagic Design has set the standard for an entire industry. With innovation and quality at the heart of every project, Blackmagic launched a rapid succession of amazing products for creative people. A great example is the new HDLink dual link SDI to DVI converter which makes quality broadcast monitoring incredibly affordable - removing one of the biggest barriers to working in HD.

Product overview

The Blackmagic product range includes the SD & HD PCI-e cards & USB3 devices, external converters, solid-state recorders, matrix routers and vision mixers.

All Decklink & UltraStudio devices can output 8 or 10bit uncompressed video over SDI with embedded audio. The different models have additional combinations of analogue and digital I/O. They also include an RS422 port and software for controlling any VTR that uses Sony-compatible RS422 protocol, which covers most professional and broadcast decks.

For Windows users, there are plug-ins to make the Decklink work with Adobe Premiere Pro v1.51/2.0/CS3/CS4/CS5/CS6 and perform deck control for batch capture and accurate print to tape. For SD use, we have found that the cards perform adequately in any 3GHz+ Intel chipset P4 or later machine using modern IDE drives (PATA or SATA), but for HD work the requirements are more stringent. The HD cards must be in a PCI-Ex slot and use a drive array capable of sustaining >150MB/sec to work at all image size & frame rate settings. Read more about I/O cards

Blackmagic HDLink Pro DVI

HDLink Pro DVI connects HD-SDI video directly to any supported DVI-D or HDMI based LCD computer monitor for incredible true HDTV resolution video monitoring. With every individual pixel in the HD-SDI video standard mapped digitally onto the pixels of a HD-resolution LCD display, you get a perfect digital-to-screen pixel for pixel HDTV display.  Features dual link 3Gb/s SDI for 2K, HD and SD compatibility, built in 3D lookup table colour management, hardware up-scaling and 6 channel analogue audio outputs. Read more

HyperDeck Shuttle is a solid state recording device that bypasses your camera’s compression and records from SDI and HDMI direct into the highest quality uncompressed video, dramatically improving the quality of professional or consumer cameras! HyperDeck Shuttle is compact, affordable and battery powered so it’s perfect as a field recorder, giving you the quality of uncompressed recording direct to common low cost SSDs in the smallest possible size.

Avoid being locked into one NLE or color grading system with a proprietary codec that could become obsolete at any time. HyperDeck Shuttle captures universally compatible uncompressed QuickTime files that can be used with all popular software packages.   Read More
 


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Hyperdeck Shuttle
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DeckLink HD Extreme 3D

Decklink
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Blackmagic Hyperdeck Shuttle

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Other alternative uncompressed video solutions: Matrox MXO2 

Decklink UltrascopeUltrascope

 

The complete PC-based test & measurement tool for video monitoring and alignment.

Blackmagic Ultrascope is available as a card or USB3
input adaptor plus software
to install in your own PC,
or as a complete system.

Sample system spec:-
3GHz i3 CPU, 4GB RAM, ATI 4650 graphics card, Win7 Home Premium, 500GB H/D,  LG 23" 1920x1080 HD LCD monitor and the Ultrascope hardware/software package installed - price 1280.00

UltraScope automatically detects between SD, HD and 3Gb/s HD-SDI video standards and includes both traditional copper BNC SDI inputs as well as optical fibre SDI inputs.

Blackmagic UltraScope is a combination of a hardware input device and software package designed to work in a PC, with a 1920 x 1080 HD-res monitor for display. This allows 6 simultaneous waveform displays that can show RGB and YUV parade, luminance, digitally synthesized composite, luminance & composite, vector-scope, histogram, 8 channel audio metering, 2D audio scope, and picture view with video standard display and HD RP-188/SD VITC reader display.

Blackmagic UltraScope is the world's first PC based waveform monitor that combines technical accuracy with elegant design, making it perfect for master monitoring, quality control, edit suites, colour correction, equipment rooms and video engineers.


Decklink Studio HD/SD I/O card
      Decklink Studio

ZEN Decklink systems

Decklink cards are available on their own or as part of complete custom-built turnkey systems.

Typical systems start at under 2000.00 for a  Decklink Studio card in an i7 PC with 4GB RAM, 1TB video storage and 23" wide LCD monitor.

Note - all prices quoted on this site are UK pounds - ex VAT & delivery
 2.5% surcharge on Credit & Company Debit Card payments

ITEM PRICE
Video Recorder - USB adaptor/capture device for creating H264 video files for the web 105.00
H264 Pro Recorder  - encodes H264 in HD/SD from SDI, HDMI & analogue sources . External box connects via USB2    325.00
Intensity Pro - HDMI I/O card with analogue - PCI-Ex 128.00
Intensity Shuttle - HDMI + analogue I/O - External USB3 box (Windows only)     128.00
Asus U3S6 SATA600 & USB3 card for PCs (4x PCIe slot)  30.00
Hyperdeck Shuttle - HDMI + HD/SDI  portable recorder to SSD (disks extra)     225.00
Hyperdeck Studio - HDMI + HD/SDI  1U Rack recorder to SSD (disks extra)     650.00
UltraScope - 6-way engineering monitor display  via SDI (inc PCIe card)     450.00
Pocket UltraScope - for PC Laptops - includes SDI to USB3 adaptor         390.00
Decklink SDI - PCI-Ex - basic SDI I/O in SD & HD   (with RS422 deck control) 190.00
Decklink Optical Fibre    320.00
Decklink Duo - dual input/output HD/SDI card (eg for use with VidBlaster)     320.00
Decklink Quad - 4-way input/output HD/SDI card (eg for use with VidBlaster)     640.00
Decklink Studio 2 - PCI-Ex   SD & HD SDI & YUV I/O plus digital/analogue audio I/O 450.00
UltraStudio Pro - External USB3 SD & HD I/O     580.00
UltraStudio SDI - External USB3 SD & HD I/O - cut-down version of U/S Pro         250.00
UltraStudio 3D - External USB3 SD & HD I/O - dual o/p for 3D monitoring         640.00
Decklink HD Extreme 3D - PCI-Ex 640.00
HD Link  Optical Fibre 525.00
HD Link  Pro (HDSDI > DVI Monitoring adaptor) 6Ch 5.1 audio out 325.00
DVI Extender - converts DVI output from PCs to HD-SDI with embedded audio 265.00
Mini Converters  - heavy duty alloy shell
- SDI to analogue video, inc AES/EBU & balanced audio outputs
- analogue video to SDI, inc AES/EBU & balanced audio inputs
- SDI to HDMI, plus AES/EBU & balanced audio outputs

- HDMI to SDI, plus AES/EBU & balanced audio inputs

225.00
each type
Mini Converters  - normal casing
- SDI to analogue video, inc AES/EBU & balanced audio outputs
- analogue video to SDI, inc AES/EBU & balanced audio inputs
- SDI to HDMI, plus AES/EBU & balanced audio outputs

- HDMI to SDI, plus AES/EBU & balanced audio inputs

190.00
each type
Audio Mini Converters
 - SDI to 4ch de-embedder, analogue or digital outputs
 - 4ch embedder, analogue or digital inputs, SDI o/p
325.00
each type
Mini Converter - SDI to Optical Fibre 2-way converter 325.00
Mini Converter - Up/Down SD/HD Cross-converter, SDI to SDI, 325.00
Mini Converter - Sync Generator with HD Tri-Sync & SD Black/Burst outputs 190.00
Broadcast Converter - combines several of the above to convert SDI<>HDMI/analogue both ways 640.00
Multibridge Pro 2 PCI-Ex 1,025.00
Multibridge Eclipse PCI-Ex 1,510.00
Micro Videohub (16x16 way SD-HD SDI router/switcher) s/w control only 975.00
Smart Videohub (16x16 way SD-HD SDI router/switcher) with control panel 1,320.00
Atem Television Studio 4-input SD/HD vision mixer using s/w control   645.00
Atem 1 M/E Production Switcher 4-input SD/HD vision mixer using s/w control, inc DVE, six keyers & software media players  1580.00
Spare Breakout Cable sets for Decklink SD & HD (various versions - please enquire) ~100.00
Full systems available - please enquire for details phone or email


We have an Atem Television Studio vision mixer on demo at our Manchester base

What we're about . . .      ZEN is not a traditional Audio-Visual dealer who started selling computers, nor is it a computer shop that also sells video editing systems. You won't get any salesmen giving you the "hard-sell" when you call, just straightforward advice and information - which for some callers is the knowledge that they don't need to buy whatever it is they thought they needed! Above all you'll be dealing with someone with a wide range of experience and knowledge of both PCs and video production. We're not the biggest, nor necessarily the cheapest, but we are one of the longest established computer/video specialists in the UK.

Company history . . .      ZEN was started in the 1980s by Martin Kay, then working for ITV at Granada's Manchester studios, who built his first 6502-based computer in 1979 from an Ohio Scientific kit, bought in the USA whilst working as a Sound Recordist on a film shoot for World In Action. With the advent of the Amiga, which could be gen-locked to a video source, Martin started writing a variety of video-related software. This included subtitling & tele-prompting, ident clocks, scoring software for sports & gameshows, and specialist software to mimic other computer displays for use in TV film dramas like Cracker, Prime Suspect and A Touch of Frost. Martin left Granada in 1993 to concentrate on his computer-video activities with ZEN, following a natural path into non-linear editing systems, now the main focus of the business, although he still maintains an active interest in video production.

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