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Pearl-2 User Guide Optimum CPU performance
Time Synchronization NTP, TIME (RFC 868), PTP v1 (IEEE-1588-2002 V1)
Power use 0.8 A, 100-240 V ac
Operating temperature 32° to 122° F (0° to 50° Celsius)
Product Dimensions
Pearl-2: 11.81" × 9.45" × 3.54" (300mm x 240mm x 90mm)
Pearl-2 Rackmount: Pearl-2 Rackmount Twin
Pearl-2 Rackmount Twin: 19 ⅛” x 3½” x 10 ⅞” (498 mm x 89 mm x 276 mm)
Product Weight
Pearl-2: 8.38 lbs (3.8 kg)
Pearl-2 Rackmount: 12.1 lbs (5.5 kg)
Pearl-2 Rackmount Twin: 14.6 lbs (6.6 kg)
Country of Origin Made in Taiwan
¹Using HDMI port, with adapter
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Requires 4K feature add on
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Up to three 1080@30 inputs can be from NDI sources or up to one 4K source
4K
can be from an NDI source.
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SD-SDI audio is not supported.
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A portion of the hard drive space (approximately 100 MB) is reserved for system use. Recording space can be
virtually unlimited with offload to networked storage.
Optimum CPU performance
Pearl-2, Pearl-2 Rackmount and Pearl-2 Rackmount Twin are powerful live video production systems;
however, there's a limit to the number of concurrent tasks the onboard CPU can perform efficiently.
The number of concurrent tasks depends on many factors, like: how many channels you have, how many
layouts you have per channel, how often you switch layouts, is the system resizing (scaling) video sources,
what frame rate and bit rate is used per channel, are the video output ports used, etc. Keep in mind that
connecting a live monitor to the HDMI output port consumes about the equivalent of an encoded
1920×1080@30 fps channel.
Streaming an NDI output consumes about the equivalent of an encoded 1920×1080@30 fps
channel on Pearl-2.
For best results, we recommend keeping Pearl-2's CPU usage under 70%.
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