HDMI: Television standard sample rate of 48 kHz and 24-bit
Color Precision
HDMI: 4:2:2
Color Space
HDMI: YUV 4:2:2
Copy Protection
For legal reasons HDMI input is unable to capture from copy protected HDMI sources. Always confirm copyright ownership before capture or distribution of content
Host Connection
1x PCI Express slot, compatible with 1-, 4-, 8-, and 16-lane PCIe slots
Input and Output Connectors
1x HDMI Input (2-channel audio)
1x HDMI Output (2-channel audio)
1x Breakout connection with RCA composite, RCA component, RCA stereo audio (24-bit), and S-Video input and output, plus stereo S/PDIF output (24-bit)
Conversion
Colorspace conversion: Hardware-based real-time
HD down conversion: Software-based down conversion during video playback
HD up conversion: Real-time standard definition to 1080HD and 720HD during video capture
Hardware Real-Time Effects
Avid Media Composer 6 internal effects in DNxHD, XDCAM, and uncompressed Apple Final Cut Pro internal effects in DV, DVCPRO HD, ProRes, and uncompressed on Intel Mac OS X Adobe Premiere Pro Mercury Playback Engine effects in DV, MJPEG, DVCPRO HD, DSLR, AVCHD, XDCAM, XDCAM HD, and uncompressed
Included Software
Media Express, Disk Speed Test, Blackmagic System Preferences, and Blackmagic driver
Firmware Upgrade
Firmware built into software driver. Loaded at system start, or via updater software
Minimum System Requirements
Mac: Mac OS X 10.6.5, 10.7.x 2008 Intel Mac Pro (Mac Pro 3,1); 2009 Intel Mac Pro Mac Pro 4,1); 2010 Intel Mac Pro (Mac Pro 5,1) 4 GB system memory High-speed storage with plenty of capacity is required to capture and play back uncompressed digital video. Compressed video formats use less space and can usually be captured and played back with one hard disk
Windows: Windows 7 64-bit Apple QuickTime needs to be installed for some applications to function with a Blackmagic capture card, e.g., Adobe After Effects, Autodesk Combustion In general, you should choose a CPU that meets or exceeds the system requirements of the software application you are planning on using The following workstations are certified: Hewlett Packard Z400; Hewlett Packard Z600; Hewlett Packard Z800; Hewlett Packard XW9300; Hewlett Packard XW8600 The following motherboards are recommended: Asus P5E; Asus P5B; Asus P5Q Pro Turbo; Asus P6X58D (Bios later than 12.04.2010); Asus P8P67 PRO (Rev 3.1); Gigabyte EP45-DS3; Gigabyte x48DQ6; Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD7-B3 (rev. 1.0); Intel D975XBX; XFX 790i Ultra