AMD’s FirePro SDI-Link platform enables system integrators and ISVs to design fully featured SDI- and GPU-based solutions with ultra-low latency between AMD professional graphics cards and industry-standard third party SDI input/output cards (e.g. AJA, Bluefish444, Blackmagic Design, DELTACAST, DVS and Matrox).
This video offers a brief overview.
At IBC 2011 Black Magic Design announced their partnership with AMD for SDI to GPU graphics support using AMD FirePro SDI-Link in both capture (DeckLink capture cards) and color grading (DaVinci Resolve). The FirePro SDI-Link enables SDI I/O products and professional graphics cards to communicate directly over PCI Express for ultra low latency between select AMD FirePro graphics cards and industry-standard SDI I/O products.
From Black Magic’s press release: “By supporting the FirePro SDI-Link our developers will see a revolution in performance combined with extremely low latency when building intense graphics based video solutions using Blackmagic Design desktop video products and AMD’s graphics cards. This will be perfect for broadcasters working in areas such as weather, live news and 3D virtual sets, where high performance graphics and extremely low processing latencies are critical,” said Grant Petty, CEO, Blackmagic Design.
Complimenting the , were several demos at IBC by leading SDI I/O card manufacturers as well as of Eyefinity technology. Pics below.
At IBC 2011 AJA Video Systems announced their partnership with AMD for a near-zero latency SDI to GPU graphics connection using AMD FirePro SDI-Link.
The video describes why SDI-Link is important in terms of workflow and efficiency and how significant it is for the broadcast industry.
At IBC 2011 AMD announced the FirePro SDI-Link for system integrators and ISVs to design fully featured SDI- and GPU-based solutions with ultra-low latency between AMD professional graphics cards and industry-standard third party SDI input/output cards (e.g. AJA, Bluefish444, Blackmagic Design, DELTACAST, DVS and Matrox).
SDI - Serial Digital Interface - is the primary digital format connection standard in the professional broadcast industry for uncompressed digital video for live feed productions (such as a live TV show), as well as for editing and monitoring video at the highest possible quality. It carries everything (video, audio, and time code) over one cable, with a bandwidth of nearly 1.5 gigabits per second (i.e. you're getting raw HD output before any compression is applied.)
Using the SDI-Link technology and the new FirePro V7900 SDI card, you get incredibly low-latency, high throughput GPU acceleration of real-time video and broadcast FX pipelines. The uncompressed digital video streams come in over an industry-standard SDI input card. The data is transferred to the GPU for real-time OpenGL/DX11/OpenCL processing (visual effects, color grading, encoding, editorial, graphics etc). Then again with virtually zero latency the processed video is passed back to the SDI card for output.
The four key components of the FirePro SDI-Link solution are:
Below is a quick overview from Bluefish444 of how they are using their SDI I/O PCI card with their new Lightspeed driver for the AMD FirePro SDI-link running Virtual Spectator software for real-time graphics on uncompressed video
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