Blackmagic Design

Blackmagic Design Logo



Multibridge Studio

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 Decklink cards, plus external converters like the Mini Converter, HDLink and Multibridge.

All Decklink cards 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 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 machine using modern IDE drives (PATA or SATA), but for HD work the requirements are more stringent. The HD cards must be in a 64bit PCI-X or 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 SD cards - HD cards

Multibridge Eclipse is an all-in-one bidirectional converter which instantly switches between HD and SD, feature 4:2:2 and Dual Link 4:4:4 video quality, and includes the new high speed PCI Express connection - Use it as the world's highest quality converter or as the I/O hardware on an editing system. Read more

HDLink connects SDI video directly to any supported DVI-D 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 1920x1200 resolution LCD display, you get a perfect digital-to-screen pixel for pixel HDTV display. HDLink now also includes support for large screen HDMI televisions for a cinema style monitoring experience! Pro version has 6 analogue audio outs for 5.1 monitoring.  Read More
 


of Decklink Pro


 

Decklink HD PCI-X


 

 

Other alternative uncompressed video solutions: Matrox Axio 

Decklink UltrascopeUltrascope

 

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

Blackmagic Ultrascope is available as a card & software
to install in your own PC,
or as a complete system.

Sample system spec:-
2.66 GHz CoreDuo CPU, 4GB RAM, ATI 4650 graphics card, Vista Home Premium, 500GB H/D,  LG 23" 1920x1080 LCD monitor and the Ultrascope hardware/software package installed - price 1310.00

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 PCI Express card 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 worlds 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

ITEM PRICE
Video Recorder - USB adaptor/capture device for creating H264 video files for the web 99.00
Intensity Pro - HDMI I/O card with analogue - PCI-Ex 145.00
Intensity Shuttle - HDMI + analogue I/O - External USB3 box (Windows only) New    145.00
UltraScope - 6-way engineering monitor display  via SDI New    485.00
Decklink SDI - PCI-Ex - basic SDI I/O in SD & HD   (All Decklink cards have RS422 deck control) 209.00
Decklink Optical Fibre New    345.00
Decklink Studio 2 - PCI-Ex   SD & HD SDI & YUV I/O plus digital/analogue audio I/O 485.00
UltraStudio Pro - External USB3 SD & HD I/O New    625.00
Decklink HD Extreme Mk3 - PCI-Ex 695.00
HD Link  Optical Fibre 555.00
HD Link  Pro (HDSDI > DVI Monitoring adaptor) 6Ch 5.1 audio out 345.00
Mini Converter - SDI to analogue video, inc AES/EBU & balanced audio outputs 345.00
Mini Converter - analogue video to SDI, inc AES/EBU & balanced audio inputs 345.00
Mini Converter - SDI to HDMI, plus AES/EBU & balanced audio outputs 345.00
Mini Converter - HDMI to SDI, plus AES/EBU & balanced audio inputs 345.00
Mini Converter - Sync Generator with HD Tri-Sync & SD Black/Burst outputs 209.00
Broadcast Converter - combines several of the above to convert SDI<>HDMI/analogue both ways 695.00
Multibridge Pro 2 PCI-Ex 1,125.00
Multibridge Eclipse PCI-Ex 1,675.00
Studio Videohub (12 way SD-HD SDI router/switcher) 2,095.00
Spare Breakout Cable sets for Decklink SD & HD (various versions - please enquire) ~100.00
Full systems available - please enquire for details phone or email

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.

ZEN - Home Page Phone 0161 736 5300 Copyright © 2010 Zen Computer Services.
All rights reserved. E&OE
Revised: 03 June, 2010