The Quadro SDI Capture card is the ideal solution for digital broadcast professionals, who use various applications such as virtual-sets, sports, and weather news systems to composite live video footage onto virtual backgrounds and send the result to live video for TV broadcast. Quadro SDI Capture card also allow film production, post-production, and finishing professionals to preview the results of 3D compositing, editing, and color grading in real time on high definition (HD) broadcast monitors.
This graphics-to-video-out solution delivers uncompressed 8-, 10-, or 12-bit SDI from programmable graphics, enabling a direct connection to broadcast monitors, switchers, tape decks, or SDI projectors.
Industry’s first fully integrated, GPU-based SDI Solution
The Quadro Digital Video Pipeline (DVP) delivers the industry’s first fully integrated GPU-based solution for acquisition, processing and delivery of high resolution video. The Quadro Digital Video Pipeline provides advanced capabilities for graphics rich production and delivery of video for broadcast, post production, film and new media.
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Flexible architecture enables SDI support with Quadro SDI-enabled GPUs
Take your inspiration even further with Quadro FX SDI-enabled solutions, with up to 4 GB of graphics memory and dual or single slot form factors. Featuring NVIDIA® SLI® technology, NVIDIA® CUDA™ parallel computing architecture, and 30-bit color accuracy, Quadro FX solutions delivers a power efficient, full featured, ultimate performance experience.
Compatible Quadro solutions:
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Full-featured software development kit (SDK) for optimization of both the graphics and SDI Output solution
The NVIDIA SDI SDK provides ease of programmability and control of the entire SDI pipeline – capturing, processing, and final delivery. |
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Quadro SDI Capture Features
Capture Uncompressed 8-,10-, or 12-Bit SDI Output
Enables on-air broadcast, video production and post production professionals to capture live video, uncompressed 8-,10-,12-bit SDI directly to graphics memory in SD-, HD-, 2K-, 3G- resolutions.
Capture up to 4 SDI Sources Directly to GPU Memory
Quadro SDI input card is the industry’s only capture card that enables direct transfer of video to graphics memory, delivering the lowest latency input to GPU memory.
Ancillary Data Support
Supports the capture of SMPTE RP188 ancillary data. This ancillary data can include up to 16 channels of embedded 24-bit digital audio as defined by SMPTE 272M and SMPTE 299M, timecode and custom packets.
Monitor Out
Monitor out can be used as a sync source for the optional SDI Output card.
NVIDIA QUADRO GRAPHICS SOLUTIONS
Next-Generation NVIDIA® CUDA™ Architecture
Breakthrough NVIDIA CUDA parallel computing architecture, code named Fermi, tightly integrates advanced visualization and compute features delivering performance that greatly accelerates professional workflows.
Framebuffers up to 6 GB of GDDR5 memory with ultra fast bandwidth
Industry’s first GPU with 6 GB of memory and memory bandwidth of 144 GB/sec for display of large models and complex scenes, as well as computation of massive datasets.
Large framebuffers with ultra-fast bandwidth
Large GPU memory with fast bandwidth for display of complex models and scenes, as well as computation of large datasets.
NVIDIA GigaThread™ Engine
Provides up to 10x faster context switching compared to previous generation architectures, concurrent kernel execution, and improved thread block scheduling
Dual Copy Engines
Enables the highest rates of parallel data processing and concurrent throughput between the GPU and host, accelerating techniques such as ray tracing, color grading and physical simulation
Scalable Geometry Architecture
Dramatically improves geometry performance across a broad range of CAD, DCC and medical applications, enabling you to work interactively with models and scenes that are an order of agnitude more complex than ever before.
Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
The NVIDIA UDA guarantees forward and backward compatibility with software drivers. Simplifies upgrading to a new solution because all Quadro products work with the same driver software.
NVIDIA Quadro SDI Capture
| Form Factor |
Full Height, Half Length |
| Bus Interface |
PCI Express x8 |
| Auxiliary Power Connectors |
Passive |
| Number of Slots (width) |
1 |
| Thermal Solution |
Active |
| Genlock |
All inputs must be genlocked |
| Communication to Graphics Card |
PCI bus |
| Inputs |
4 SDI Sources (BNCs)
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| Outputs |
1 Monitor out (BNC)
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SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS
- Microsoft Windows XP (64-bit and 32-bit)
- Windows Vista
- Windows 7 support
- Linux - Full OpenGL implementation, complete with NVIDIA and ARB extensions (64-bit and 32-bit)
Quadro SDI Capture - Programmable Modes
- Up to 4 Channel Fill or 2 channel Fill + 2 channel Key
- 8-, 10-, 12-bit
- RGB 4:4:4
- YCrCb 4:2:2 or 4:4:4
- 2x YCrCb 4:2:2 + 4:2:2
- YCrCbA 4:2:2:4
- RGBA 4:4:4:4 (8-bit only)
Full support for outputs in the following 3G, 2K, HD, and SD formats:
- 480i 59.94 Hz (SMPTE259) NTSC
- 576i 50.00 Hz (SMPTE259) PAL
- 720p 25.00 Hz (SMPTE296)
- 720p 29.97 Hz (SMPTE296)
- 720p 30.00 Hz (SMPTE296)
- 720p 50.00 Hz (SMPTE296)
- 720p 59.94 Hz (SMPTE296)
- 720p 60.00 Hz (SMPTE296)
- 1035i 59.94 Hz (SMPTE260)
- 1035i 60.00 Hz (SMPTE260)
- 1080i 47.96 Hz (SMPTE274)
- 1080i 48.00 Hz (SMPTE274)
- 1080i 50.00 Hz (SMPTE274)
- 1080i 59.94 Hz (SMPTE274)
- 1080i 60.00 Hz (SMPTE274)
- 1080p 23.976 Hz (SMPTE274)
- 1080p 24.00 Hz (SMPTE274)
- 1080p 25.00 Hz (SMPTE274)
- 1080p 29.97 Hz (SMPTE274)
- 1080p 30.00 Hz (SMPTE274)
- 1080p 23.976 Hz (SMPTE372)
- 1080p 24.00 Hz (SMPTE372)
- 1080p 25.00 Hz (SMPTE372)
- 1080p 29.97 Hz (SMPTE372)
- 1080p 30.00 Hz (SMPTE372)
- 1080i 47.96 Hz (SMPTE372)
- 1080i 48.00 Hz (SMPTE372)
- 1080i 50.00 Hz (SMPTE372)
- 1080i 59.94 Hz (SMPTE372)
- 1080i 60.00 Hz (SMPTE372)
- 1080p 50.00 Hz (SMPTE 424M )
- 1080p 59.64 Hz (SMPTE 424M )
- 1080p 60.00 Hz (SMPTE 424M )
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