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DeckLink Extreme PCIe – world’s first capture card for PCIe.
Hi,
Blackmagic Design has introduced a new card at IBC 2005 in Amsterdam. It is the DeckLink Extreme PCIe which plugs in to a PCI Express (PCIe) slot. DeckLink Extreme PCIe is the world’s first uncompressed video capture card for PCIe.
Many new PC’s feature PCIe slots rather than the traditional PCI and PCI-X slots. PCIe motherboards are less expensive for manufacturers to make so there are going to be more and more computers released with PCIe motherboards.
We’ve brought the existing DeckLink Extreme up to date so that owners of new computers can use DeckLink cards. Just choose between DeckLink Extreme or DeckLink Extreme PCIe depending upon the slots in your PC.
DeckLink Extreme PCIe is a 1 lane PCIe card ideal for multi layer real time effects providing compatibility with new high speed Windows PC motherboards, while allowing full compatibility with 1, 4, 8 and 16 lane PCI Express slots.
It can be used with inexpensive Dual Core PC’s which provides a fantastic solution for high quality, low cost, uncompressed, standard defintion video editing.
DeckLink Extreme PCIe is the same cost as the existing DeckLink Extreme at US$895. The card has been completed and is being manufactured now so we expect first shipments to commence in about 2 weeks.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
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Luke,
Will the PCI-e card operate okay with SD material on a 1x PCIe slot? That’s all I’ve got on my Supermicro PDSGE. I was thinking of getting a Decklink HD to run on the same 133MHz PCI-X bus as my raid controller. Which would be a better solution?
Thanks,
PeterPeter Corbett
Powerhouse Productions
Australia
http://www.php.com.au -
Hi Peter,
Yes, the PCIe version of DeckLink Extreme only requires a 1 lane PCIe slot but you can use it in multi-lane slots if you prefer. The DeckLink Extreme PCIe card is a standard definition card as it the original DeckLink Extreme.
[Peter Corbett] “I was thinking of getting a Decklink HD to run on the same 133MHz PCI-X bus as my raid controller. Which would be a better solution?”
That depends on whether you want to do SD or HD? The motherboard you have specified is not in our list of Certified Motherboards for High and Standard Definition or our Certified Motherboards for Standard Definition only so I’m not sure how it will go as we haven’t tested it. It would be good if your reseller would allow you to evaluate it first to make sure it works OK, regardless of which card you choose. My guess is that this motherboard will be fine for either card based on its specs but it is hard to know without testing one.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design -
Operating both the Decklink in SD mode on the same bus as the media raid (133MHz LSI card) should’t be a problem? I’m assuming there wouldn’t be a bottleneck with all that bandwidth.
Thanks,
PeterPeter Corbett
Powerhouse Productions
Australia
http://www.php.com.au -
Hi Peter,
I think you are asking if it is OK to run both the DeckLink HD and the LSI card on the same shared bus? In theory that should be fine as they are both PCI-X cards. In HD mode it would be preferable to have the DeckLink HD on a seperate bus as both cards will be very demanding for a shared PCI-X bus and there is the potential to run out of bandwidth. It should not be an issue when working in SD with the DeckLink HD card.
Alternatively, the DeckLink Extreme PCIe will be on its own bus and so there would be no issue with the LSI card.
Regards,
Luke Maslen
Blackmagic Design -
Thanks Luke,
Whilst I’m not HD at the moment, I might go that way as the HD PLus is $200 cheaper than the PCI-e SD card and maybe I can use the “HD-ready” moniker as a sales aid. Thanks again for the advice.
Cheers,
Peter
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