The Quadro SDI Output 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 Output 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 Output Features
Uncompressed 8-, 10-, or 12-Bit SDI Output
Enables on-air broadcast, video production and post production professionals to composite and output live video and graphics to true, uncompressed 12-bit SDI in 2K, SD, or HD resolutions and allows direct connection to a broadcast monitor, switcher, tape deck, or SDI projector.
Ancillary Data Support
Supports the insertion of SMPTE RP188 ancillary data into the outgoing SDI video. This ancillary data can include up to 16 channels of embedded 24-bit digital audio as defined by SMPTE 272M and SMPTE 299M, time code and custom packets
Genlock (House Synchronization)
One genlock (Standard BNC) connector (digital or analog) provides connectivity to a video sync source for SMPTE standard (digital, black burst, tri-level) synchronization. Expanded cross sync functionality permits an incoming house signal to synchronize to a much larger number of video output signal formats.
Output up to 2-SDI Video Feeds from GPU Memory
Quadro SDI Output card connects directly to supported Quadro graphics cards to output video directly from GPU memory to SDI. This direct access delivers the industry’s lowest latency SDI output directly from GPU memory.
NVIDIA QUADRO FX 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 magnitude 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 Output
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Full Height, Half Length |
| Max Power Consumption |
20W |
| Auxiliary Power Connectors |
4-pin Molex |
| Number of Slots (width) |
1 |
| Thermal Solution |
Passive |
| Genlock |
BNC (1)- Analog or Digital Genlock |
| Communication to Graphics Card |
Ribbon Cable + DVI Connection |
| Outputs |
2 BNCs. 2 Single Link, 1 Dual Link
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SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS
- Microsoft Windows XP (64-bit and 32-bit)
- Linux - Full OpenGL implementation, complete with NVIDIA and ARB extensions (64-bit and 32-bit)
Quadro SDI Output - Programmable Modes
- 2 channel fill or
- 1 channel fill + 1 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)
Quadro SDI Output – Control Panel Modes
- Clone and Dualview Modes work on top of existing applications
- 1 channel fill
- 8-bit
- RGB 4:4:4
- YCrCb 4:2:2 or 4:4:4
Full support for outputs in the following 2K, HD, and SD formats:
- 480i 59.94 Hz (SMPTE259) NTSC
- 576i 50.00 Hz (SMPTE259) PAL
- 720p 23.98 Hz (SMPTE296)
- 720p 24.00 Hz (SMPTE296)
- 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 (SMPTE295)
- 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)
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