Blackmagic Design

SD to HDMI Mini Converter

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

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

Decklink
HD Extreme 3D

Hyperdeck Shuttle

      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

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

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

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.