For monitoring or mastering to higher end decks such as Digital Betacam™, DeckLink SP also features a true 10 bit uncompressed SDI video output with 8 channels of embedded SDI audio. To make audio monitoring easier, DeckLink SP also includes an SPDIF digital audio output.

Professional tape decks such as Sony Betacam SP™ are a broadcast industry standard, and now with DeckLink SP, you can work with high quality analog video direct with some of the most powerful editing and design software on the market today. After finishing your work, Betacam SP™ masters can be sent direct to broadcast stations or dub shops for duplication.

DeckLink SP includes some of the most advanced analog design techniques available today. The DeckLink SP design team includes some of the world's top analog designers and this means the advanced technology in DeckLink SP gives you much more for a dramatically lower cost.

Other DeckLink SP design innovations include an amazing 6 independent power supplies in a distributed power management system. This means each analog section of DeckLink SP can transport delicate analog signaling without interference from the digital stages in the video signal path.

Any professional video monitor can be directly connected to Decklink SP's SDI video output, or even the deck itself. The full 10 bit SDI video output can also be used to direct connect to high end decks such as Digital Betacam™ for mastering if required.

DeckLink SP also eliminates break out box clutter with our exclusive long 7 ft or 2 meter direct-connect break out cable that allows you to plug directly into your deck and monitoring. You don't even need to purchase cables, and if you want to disconnect your system, you only need to unplug a single cable.

DeckLink SP features many more video formats than other video cards with 10 bit uncompressed, 8 bit uncompressed, JPEG and DV playback.

With the incredible quality of uncompressed 10 bit video, and the renowned Blackmagic codec, DeckLink SP is easily the world's highest quality video tool. 10 bit uncompressed is perfect when your clients demand quality, and time is not available to get stuck with quality issues.

Uncompressed 8 bit, JPEG and DV playback are incredibly flexible when the high quality of 10 bit uncompressed is not required, and disk space is tight.

10 bit uncompressed is better quality than any other system, at any price. Uncompressed 10 bit is the highest quality possible from the SDI television system, and provides the most incredible image quality you have ever seen.

When pulling heavy image treatments and color grades, or when working on the most intricate graphic designs, 10 bit uncompressed will retain all the utmost precision of the SDI video format and eliminate image banding or contouring.

Even when working with 8 RGB applications, 10 bit uncompressed video will keep higher precision when moving pixels between RGB and YUV video space resulting in a dramatically better image quality.

When working in Adobe After Effects™, the Blackmagic 64 bit codec allows 16 bit RGB per channel rendering. This takes full advantage of the uncompressed 10 bit video quality available from decks such as Digital Betacam™, and D5™. Independent tests show the Blackmagic Codec as the best quality codec available today.

Only 10 bit uncompressed will hold up under heavy working conditions demanded by clients today. 10 bit uncompressed video will retain that delicate film look.

Even if you spend most of your time working with DeckLink SP's great uncompressed 8 bit, or Online JPEG formats, it's always comforting to know DeckLink SP can instantly change up to 10 bit if required. It's always there ready for you.

Uncompressed 8 bit is great when you still want the benefit of uncompressed video, however you need to squeeze more space out of your capture disk.

Uncompressed 8 bit is also fully compatible with other uncompressed video cards. You can capture on a DeckLink SP and move files onto other systems without rendering. This is a great timesaver, and lets you take advantage possibilities of QuickTime™ by mixing and matching cards to suit your needs, no matter who the manufacturer is.

The Online JEPG format uses very little disk space, so you can even capture to your internal IDE disk or FireWire external disk!

The quality of Online JPEG is incredible, and is easily good enough for broadcast. This creates tremendous workflow possibilities that have never been previously available. You can even capture to many firewire disks and edit parts of your job on lower cost systems such as iMac's.

When your edit is finished, just plug in your FireWire disk, and open and play out your finished project to tape. You don't even need to copy the project or media files! That's incredible flexibility.

One of the most exciting formats on the DeckLink SP is DV playback. You can take any DV project in applications such as Final Cut Pro™, and play them out to SDI video instantly, and without rendering.

This allows you to cut down DV based field originated material to more manageable levels and saves huge amounts of disk space. Many projects can even be mastered as DV, and then output to Digital Betacam™ or other higher end formats for final release.

DV playback allows for exciting workflow methods because it's compatible with thousands of DV cameras available today. This allows much easier integration of high-end post production with consumer grade video than before. That's a feature demanded by many clients as their video acquisition options increase. DeckLink lets you easily take advantage of this flexibility.

Even when on the road, you can use FireWire equipped Powerbook systems to edit with on DV, and then using target disk mode, mount the Powerbook internal disk on your DeckLink SP system, and open and play out your edit. Target disk mode is invoked by pressing the 'T key' at startup, and will let your Powerbook emulate a FireWire hard disk.

Blackmagic DeckLink features real time effects that are great when working on long format work such as episodic television program production. Real Time effects can be updated via internet downloads and new effects are being released constantly.

Many exciting real time effects are included with the DeckLink SP. These include Cross Dissolve, Non Additive Dissolve, Additive Dissolve, Fade in Fade out, Dip to Color, Sepia, Desaturate, Brightness Contrast, Proc Amp, Tint, and Gamma Correction and 3 way color correction on both 8 bit and 10 bit uncompressed modes. More effects are constantly being added.

One of the most fun features of the Blackmagic DeckLink is the video desktop.

When not being used in applications such as Final Cut Pro™ you get a fully featured desktop display output as video from the DeckLink SP video output. This allows you to drag and fill screen documents in applications such as Adobe Photoshop™ and then work on broadcast paint direct into a full broadcast monitor. Never be surprised again when dropping those Photoshop graphics into your editing software!

DeckLink SP uses the famous Blackmagic QuickTime™ drivers and no other company has as much experience running on Mac OS X™ than Blackmagic Design. This means you get well proven and stable drivers, and are constantly being improved to ensure compatibility with software from all vendors including companies such as Apple™, Adobe™ and Discreet™.

QuickTime™ compatibility allows any software and hardware to be mixed and matched, and DeckLink SP makes the perfect video companion to the most powerful software tools used in the industry today. Compatible software includes Apple Final Cut Pro™, Adobe After Effects™, Adobe Photoshop™, Shake™, Discreet Combustion™, iDVD™, DVD Studio Pro™, Color Finesse™, Microcosm™, Cleaner™ and many more.