DeckLink is the world's most popular video card because it can be used for almost any job. Check out some of the great tasks you can use a DeckLink for in your facility.

Non Linear Editing

DeckLink cards are the perfect companion for editing software such as Apple’s Final Cut Pro™ on Mac OS X™ and Adobe® Premiere Pro® on Windows™ or Mac OS X™. Blackmagic Design works closely to support all the special features in these software applications, so you get a seamless editing experience. When used with Final Cut Pro™, DeckLink cards supports multistream effects, 10 bit YUV rendering and multi-channel audio and more. DeckLink cards used with Premiere Pro, supports 5.1 surround sound audio, built-in deck control and much more. DeckLink cards on Windows™ supports a full 8 channels of HD-SDI audio or SD-SDI audio (using our ASIO audio playback driver). For fast setup of editing software, "settings" are included so you can start editing immediately.

Design and Effects

High quality effects and design work has never been easier. DeckLink cards are fully compatible with the standard software tools for broadcast designers, such as After Effects®, Motion™ and Photoshop®. For a complete solution for inputting and outputting media, Blackmagic Media Express is included free and allows time code accurate remote capture and output to broadcast decks. DeckLink cards also includes an RGB QuickTime™ preview output for After Effects and Combustion™. And, you can always preview on the DeckLink HD video-out interactively as you work, and then play pre-renders using real time RAM preview. When rendering your work, processing quality using the Blackmagic codec is full 16 bit, so you always get the advantage of 10 bit SDI video.

Broadcast Paint and Graphics

Broadcast graphics work demands absolute quality and seamless integration with software for speed. Adobe Photoshop has become the tool of choice for broadcast designers worldwide because of its industry standard interface and powerful tool set. DeckLink cards include Photoshop plug-ins so you can capture still frames from the video input, and output graphics to the video-output with a simple menu click. Photoshop documents can use 16 bit rendering to 10 bit SDI for the highest quality video. Blackmagic Media Express can also be used to control your broadcast deck remotely. And, when used in live environments, DeckLink can key graphics with an alpha channel over live input video.

Streaming

DeckLink cards are ideal for streaming as you always get a clean uncompressed video source for your streaming files. Uncompressed source video also means you don’t waste CPU time de-compressing video, so you get faster rendering of your streaming files. DeckLink cards are compatible with popular streaming software on Mac OS X™ and Windows™.

DVD Authoring

With DVD’s replacing VHS tapes as the most popular consumer format, creating DVDs from your work has become important. DVDs from uncompressed media are much higher quality, and as all media files used on DeckLink are QuickTime™ or AVI, you get full compatibility with DVD authoring software. Use DVD Studio Pro™ or even iDVD™ on Mac OS X™ or Adobe® Encore® DVD software on Windows™ for powerful DVD creation.

Dual Standard Monitoring

DeckLink cards have built-in support for monitoring in your edit suite, whether it's in high definition or standard definition. Most high definition capable CRT monitors will switch between high definition and standard with ease, however the built-in SDI inputs generally only work in high definition or standard definition. With DeckLink cards featuring high quality analog monitoring output, you can connect component video that changes automatically as you change standards. CRT monitors then instantly change without needing reconnections, and you can even see 4:4:4 quality when working with RGB graphics.

Live Broadcast Graphics Presentation

Use the built-in keyer for overlaying graphics live into production switchers. Even if you're only adding station indents, keying makes it easy when using the two SDI outputs as fill and key. Use the Blackmagic LiveKey application for turning on and off the keying function. Blackmagic LiveKey will also automatically fade graphics on and off for specific times.

DeckLink HD Extreme 3D will work with all available QuickTime™ software tools. DeckLink offers you the highest quality standard definition and high definition video available, combined with an affordable low price, so you can move to HD now!

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Offline SD Editing

DeckLink cards operate in SD and HD, DV, ProRes 422, JPEG and also support 23.98fps editing. This makes DeckLink cards great offline tools for feature film production and other long form editing, such as television series.

Audio Mix-down

With support for Core Audio on Mac OS X™ and ASIO compliant audio drivers on Windows™, DeckLink HD cards are great when you need to mix down audio tracks for edits using powerful audio tools.

Archiving

Eliminate the dangers of archiving on tape formats that can be obsoleted over time. By archiving your work onto disk with DeckLink, your work is online whenever you need to view it. File formats such as QuickTime™ and AVI have been around for longer than many current tape formats and are great for archiving.

Connect Everyone Together

Check out Studio Videohub, the best way to connect everyone and tape decks together when using SDI based cards. Studio Videohub is a professional routing switcher that lets you connect everyone via SDI video to decks. Connections can be changed electronically via a software based control panel running on every editing system!

Low Cost
Test Signals

If you're a video engineer and you need a low cost test signal generator, then DeckLink HD Extreme 3D is ideal. You can simply draw your test signal in Photoshop™ and then output it using the SDI and analog outputs. DeckLink operates natively in 10 bit uncompressed YUV so you can also capture a clone of the test signal from other SDI sources in your facility, and store them for later use. Then play them back when you want to output test signals.

Engineering
and Developers

Software engineers will love using DeckLink for all kinds of video tasks as any developer can write custom software to capture and playback video. DeckLink supports QuickTime™ on Mac OS X™ DirectShow™, and QuickTime™ on Windows™.

Offline Editing

DeckLink cards are low cost, and make a great offline tool. Most editing software has full EDL support. You can edit offline work for episodic television production, or feature film work and then export EDLs for any editing system. DeckLink cards support 23.98 fps editing from NTSC, so you can eliminate pulldown while capturing video and edit for feature film work.