Quadro SDI Output

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.

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: Quadro 6000 Quadro 5000 Quadro 4000 Quadro FX 5800 Quadro FX 4800 Quadro FX 3800

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.

NVIDIA QUADRO SDI OUTPUT

• Output up to 2-SDI Video Feeds from GPU Memory
  Quadro SDI Output card connects directly to compatible 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.
• 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.

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 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.

Videography - 2009 NAB Best of Show Vidy Awards
"NVIDIA Quadro Digital Video Pipeline wins Vidoegraphy’s 2009 NAB Best of Show Vidy Award"

Digital Video - NAB Update: NVIDIA Opens Quadro Digital Video Pipeline
"Announced at NAB 2009, the NVIDIA Quadro Digital Video Pipeline delivers the industry’s first, fully integrated, GPU-based solution for acquisition, processing and delivery of high resolution video. Providing advanced capabilities for broadcast, post production, film and new media, the Quadro Digital Video Pipeline offers the fastest graphics computation engine for broadcast production, in a flexible, reliable and cost-effective PC-based platform."

TechConnect Magazine - NVIDIA announces the Quadro Digital Video Pipeline, two new cards
"Dubbed Quadro Digital Video Pipeline, the solution allows for higher quality, graphic-rich broadcasts in real time by providing direct path for image processing into and out of the GPU."

Geek.com - Real-time, broadcast-quality graphics from NVIDIA’s Digital Video Pipeline GPU solution
"To think that the equivalent of a fully-professional, broadcast-ready graphics system could be purchased for around $50,000 with ongoing software development expenses, etc., is just amazing considering the multi-million dollar budgets of many news outlets and local affiliates."

HD4PC - NAB Wrap Up
"I had heard over two years ago that SDI input capability was in development, but the Quadro Digital Video Pipeline has been the first sign of it becoming a reality."

Geeks of 3D - NVIDIA Quadro Digital Video Pipeline Is The First GPU Based Platform For Broadcast Production
"NVIDIA announced the Quadro Digital Video Pipeline, the industry’s first integrated GPU-based platform for broadcasters to acquire, process and deliver virtual effects to video."

PC Launches - NVIDIA Quadro Digital Video Pipeline integrated GPU-based platform for broadcasters unveiled
"NVIDIA recently came out with a brand new platform for broadcast market which requires really tough graphics."

TechShout - NVIDIA Quadro Digital Video Pipeline, platform for broadcast production
"Broadcasters looking for a platform to process and deliver virtual effects to video can now look to NVIDIA’s new GPU platform."

Computer Graphics World
"NVIDIA Corporation has introduced the NVIDIA Quadro Digital Video Pipeline, reportedly the industry's first integrated GPU-based platform for broadcasters to acquire, process, and deliver virtual effects to video. The solution offers a fast graphics computation engine for broadcast production, in a flexible, reliable, and cost-effective PC-based platform."

Digitimes - NVIDIA unveils integrated GPU platform for broadcast production
"The Quadro Digital Video Pipeline platform integrates components including a Quadro SDI Capture card which enables uncompressed video to be streamed directly to Quadro SDI-enabled GPU memory, and offers the ability to capture up to four HD-SDI Single link sources simultaneously."

The Gizmo Spot - NVIDIA Quadro Digital Video Pipeline
"NVIDIA’s Quadro Digital Pipeline is an integrated solution for capture, process and output video using Quadro components (SDI Capture, GPU and SDI Output). It is most useful to process real-time video processing in live broadcast environment, for example. The system’s performance allow it to work in real-time on resolutions up to 2k."

Sunrainet - NVIDIA GPU video effects processing platform
"NVIDIA released GPU television visual effects in real-time processing platform, called NVIDIA Quadro Digital Video Pipeline. The platform is based on Quadro FX series of professional graphics cards, but with adding a dedicated input and output cards, for the use of the television industry standards SDI, collect and output uncompressed digital video."

Ubergizmo - NVIDIA Quadro Digital Video Pipeline
"NVIDIA's Quadro Digital Pipeline is an integrated solution for capture, process and output video using Quadro components (SDI Capture, GPU and SDI Output). It is most useful to process real-time video processing in live broadcast environment, for example."

9Gadgets - NVIDIA Quadro Digital Video Pipeline
"The system’s performance allow it to work in real-time on resolutions up to 2k."

TechGadgets - NVIDIA reveals the Quadro Digital Video Pipeline GPU platform
"This platform enables broadcasters to attain, process and deliver virtual effects to video. This product is integrated with Quadro’s SDI Capture card, SDI Output card, FX professional GPU solutions and Digital Video Pipeline SDK."

Gadget Pick - NVIDIA Quadro Digital Video Pipeline
"NVIDIA is building up on its GPU compute efforts to deliver productivity booster."

Techmanic - NVIDIA Quadro Digital Video Pipeline
"NVIDIA’s Quadro Digital Pipeline is an integrated solution for capture, process and output video using Quadro components (SDI Capture, GPU and SDI Output). It is most useful to process real-time video processing in live broadcast environment, for example."