Blackmagic Design - Leading the creative video revolution
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Windows XP
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Welcome
Thank you for purchasing a DeckLink broadcast
video card. We hope you share our dream for
the television industry to become a truly creative
industry by allowing anyone to have access to the
highest quality video.
Previously high end television and post production
required investment in millions of dollars of
hardware, however with DeckLink cards, even 10
bit uncompressed is now easily affordable. We hope you get years of use from
your new DeckLink card and have fun working with some of the world’s hottest
television and design software!
This instruction manual should contain all the information you’ll need on
installing your DeckLink capture card, although it’s always a good idea to ask
a technical assistant for help if you have not installed hardware cards into
computers before. As DeckLink uses uncompressed video and the data rates
are quite high, you’ll need fast storage and a high performance host computer.
We think it should take you approximately 15 minutes to complete installation.
Please check our web site at www.blackmagic-design.com and click the
support page to download the latest updates to this manual and DeckLink
driver software.
Lastly, please email us ([email protected]) with your DeckLink
serial number so we can keep you updated when new software is released.
Perhaps you can even send us your latest show reel of work completed on
your DeckLink!
We are constantly working on new features and improvements, so we would
love to hear from you!
Grant Petty
CEO Blackmagic Design
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Contents
Welcome
2.
Storage and data rates for
uncompressed video
3.
Standard Definition Windows
system requirements
4.
High Definition Windows
system requirements
5.
Hardware installation
6.
Blackmagic DeckLink software
7.
Pre-installation checks
8.
Installing Blackmagic DeckLink software 9.
Getting connected
11.
Processor Amplifier
13.
VANC
13.
Genlock
13.
Blackmagic Deck Control
15.
Blackmagic LiveKey
17.
Hardware Down-Conversion with
DeckLink HD Pro
18.
Switching to 4:4:4 mode with
DeckLink HD Pro
18.
Adobe After Effects
19.
Adobe Premiere Pro
20.
Trouble Shooting
22.
If things go wrong
23.
Connection diagrams
DeckLink
24.
DeckLink Pro
25.
DeckLink SP
26.
DeckLink Extreme
27.
DeckLink Extreme cables
28.
DeckLink HD
29.
DeckLink HD
30.
DeckLink HD Pro 4:4:4 mode
31.
DeckLink HD Pro 4:2:2 mode
32.
DeckLink HD Pro (Single Link)
33.
DeckLink HD Pro cables 34.
Blackmagic Design Warranty
35.
