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Introduction
SD| Greed
SD| Greed is the latest PCI 32 bit, dedicated SD digital and analog video and audio card from Bluefish444. SD| Greed
brings the highest quality SD video and audio to Windows, Apple and Linux platforms. SD| Greed is a combination of all our
SD products and the needs of the professional studios all rolled in to one PCI card.
SD| Greed supports 12 bit digital SDI I/O, capable of supporting the complete range of SDI connection standards up to 12
bit Dual link (4:4:4) I/O including Dual link Video + Key (4:2:2:4). SD| Greed also supports selectable Single link SDI I/O
(4:2:2) connections and simultaneous independent SDI I/O, allowing a range of operating modes such as simultaneous
capture and playback, multiple independent captures and playback via the 3 customizable SDI outputs and two SDI input
BNC cables.
SD| Greed supports analog video I/O using 12 bit and A/D and D/A converters which provide accurate conversion with
extremely low noise. Analog sources acquired from Betacam SP are preserved at the highest quality.
SD| Greed supports a range of memory formats such as 10 and 8 bit RGB/YUV uncompressed video and Apple QuickTime
v210. Support for DV, DVCPRO and DVCPRO50 codecs is also supported all within your Apple Mac.
SD| Greed provides the most comprehensive audio I/O support of any card currently available today. SD| Greed supports
balanced digital AES/ EBU, embedded I/O, unbalanced S/P DIF, balanced XLR and unbalanced RCA analog audio I/O. SD|
Greed supports 24 bit processing at 48Hz and includes hardware sample rate converters removing synchronization issues.
The sample rate converters are genuine, high order poly-phase interpolation filters rather than the minimalist algorithms
found in some competing systems
SD| Greed also includes RS 422 deck control and bi level sync Genlock input
SD| Greed is a single 32 bit PCI card supporting 32 bit/64 bit PCI /PCI-X slots at 66/33 MHz bus speeds. SD| Greed comes
with 5 connection ports for the 7 cables, providing flexible and customizable options that can be tailored to your specific
requirements and cater to whatever source and monitoring equipment you have.