Bluefish444 SD Prime User Manual

User Manual Mac OS X SD|Fidelity SD|Focus SD|Prime Monday, April 21, 2008

10 Software Feature Control The Bluefish Feature Control provides ancillary features and low level control of the Bluefish444 products. Depend

11 Final Cut Pro Studio Bluefish444 provides support for the Apple Final Cut Studio consisting of; • Final Cut Pro 6.0.3 • Motion 2 • Sound T

12 Motion 2 Motion offers true film-quality output, GPU accelerated performance, and an astounding toolset. Now you can create advanced motion

13 Adobe After Effects CS3 (Application Software not included) Animate your ideas. Adobe® After Effects® 7.0 software helps you create compell

14 Photoshop CS3 (Application Software not included) Adobe® Photoshop® CS2 software, the professional image-editing standard and leader of the

15 What’s in the Box SD| Fidelity SD| Focus PCI e 1 lane Card. PCI e 1 lane Card. • CDROM Software and documentation including Symmetry a

16 SD| Prime PCI e 1 lane card Digital Audio S/P DIF I/O 1 x HD 15 pin with 8 BNC consisting of 4 pairs Labeled ‘DIG AUDIO IN’, DIG AUDIO

17 System Requirements System Configuration Minimum requirements Card SD| Focus SD| FidelitySD| Prime Slot Type PCI e 1 lane Card. Item

18 Slot Installation Requirements PCI e Mac Pro Quad Storage Requirements The SD product range is primarily an uncompressed capture and

19 Cable Connection

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20 SD| Fidelity SD| Focus Digital Video & Genlock Analog Video Digital Audio (1) 8 Ch S/P DIF (BNC) Digital Audio (2) 6 Ch AE

21 SD| Prime Digital Audio (1) 8 Ch S/P DIF (BNC) Digital Audio (2) 6 Ch AES/EBU (XLPCI SDI A OUT SDI A IN Genlock RS 422 Deck Control

22 Cable Types Digital Video I/O & Genlock SD| Greed Supports two SD SDI inputs and two SDI outputs. SD| Greed suppor

23 Analog Video I/O The analog video cable can support a range of input and output combinations. Combined with the SDI I/O

24 Digital Audio Option 1 - S/P DIF BNC 8 Channels I/O, Unbalanced SD| Greed and Single Link Pro supports 8 BNC connectors. Each BNC connector

25 Digital Audio Option 2 - AES/EBU XLR 6 Channels I/O, Balanced The SD product range provides 6 XLR connectors, supporting AES

26 Analog Audio Option 1 - RCA Dual channel, Unbalanced SD| Greed provides 2 RCA, unbalanced analog input and 2 RCA unbalanced analog output co

27 Analog Audio Option 2 - XLR Dual channel, Balanced SD| Greed provides 2 balanced analog input and 2 balanced analog output connectors, one

28 Deck Control A Male DB8 connector provides connection between the Bluefish444 card and decks, DDRS, cameras and other supp

29 Installation Installation Check List. Make sure you have the following installed prior to installing your SD| Greed, SD| Fidelity and SD|

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30 CoAreas to apply force On edge of PCB and PCI shield http://www.apple.com/quicktime/ Installing the Bluefish444 Hardware Bluefish444 provide

31 Connecting to the outside world The Bluefish SD product range is an extremely versatile Video/Audio I/O card that can connect to a range of

32 Typical Connection Workflow 1 The following example is a typical workflow you might use if your source is SDI but you have analog monitoring

33 Typical Connection Workflow 2 The following example is a typical workflow you might use if you wish to edit and monitor with 6 channels of a

34 Typical Connection Workflow 3 The following example is a typical workflow you might use if you wish to ingest Analog Audio and Video and mas

35 Typical Connection Workflow 4 The following example is a typical workflow you might use if you wish to ingest Digital Audio and Video • S

36 Driver Installation Driver installation is very much straight forward. At this point you should have a Bluefish444 card installed in the re

37 Feature Application About the Feature Application. The Bluefish444 feature application allows you to control and monitor your Bluefish444

38 Letter Box This section controls the letter box feature that Bluefish444 hardware supports. Letter box blanks the top and the bottom of your

39 Video Input Play Through The video is passed through the video card for monitoring of SDI and analog output. This is very useful when alte

4 Limited Warranty Bluefish444 warrants that this product will be free from defects in materials and workmanship for a period of three (3) yea

40 Bluefish444 Device Provides crucial information on current driver and firmware currently used by your Bluefish444 hardware. Safe Area Enabl

41 Analog Features The Analog Features tab panel will only be present when you have Analog/SDI capable cards such as the SD| Flex, SD| Greed an

42 • V Gain • Hue • Black level • Sharpness NOTE; the output setting are preserved independently for each analog signal type e.g. component, c

43 Signal Routing Bluefish444 analog cards supports flexible signal routing of the SDI or analog signals to a range of SDI and Analog, componen

44 Input = Composite Output = SDI + Composite + S-Video Input = S-Video Output = SDI + Composite + S-Video

45 Input = SDI Output = SDI + Composite + S-Video + Component

46 Analog Configuration Guide The SD| Greed supports an array of configurations that can be selected by using the “Analog output signal type” s

47 Audio Depending on the type of Bluefish444 card installed, a range of audio options can be achieved. The tables outlines the connectively

48 Signal Routing to Analog Audio With the SD| Greed you can monitor and range of audio channels with the analog audio outputs. For example of

49 3rd Party Software Final Cut Pro Bluefish444 video I/O cards supports the latest version of Final Cut Pro ™. The best approach to setup

5 Support Contact Details. If you have any questions please contact support at [email protected]. Email Support is free for the life of t

50 5. After you have selected the drop down list you will be presented with a range of options to select from. 6. Select Setup, Final Cut

51 7. You can configure your 3rd party device control settings in the Audio/Video settings menu item of the Final Cut Pro HD menu 8. Final C

52 3. Click the Outputs combo box 4. Select 24 outputs 5. On the timeline at the foot of the display, for audio channel A1, control-cli

53 6. On the timeline at the foot of the display, for audio channel A2, control-click the Audio Select icon (the icon to the right of the padlo

54 Final Cut Pro Embedded Audio capture Configure Final Cut Pro to capture embedded audio 1. From the Final Cut Pro menu select Audio/Video S

55 3. Click Edit 4. In QuickTime Audio Settings, click the Input combo box

56 5. From here you can select either Analog, SDI or AES/EBU audio from the combo box 6. Once the QuickTime audio input is selected, Speci

57 7. Open the Log & Capture window and in Clip Settings, enable the appropriate number of embedded audio channels (11-24). Screen shot s

58 FCP Audio Channel Support SD| Fidelity Input Output AES EBU External 1-8 1-8 Analog 9-10 9-10 SDI 11-26 11-26 Note; Final Cut can o

59 Creating your own presets in Final Cut Pro If you wish to create your own presets (or if you are in a NON English speaking locale) the audio

6 Introduction SD|Fidelity & SD|Focus SD| Fidelity and SD| Focus is the latest Single link PCI Express 1 lane video card dedicated to

60 Bluefish444 NTSC 4:2:2 10 Bit Uncompressed

61 Adobe After Effects Bluefish444 supports Adobe After Effects on Windows and the Mac OS X. Bluefish444 supports real time video output of Af

62 6. You will be presented with a range of 8 and 10 bit output options that are selectable, select the desired RGB output for your project.

63 Combustion 4 Bluefish444 supports Autodesk Combustion for video preview output for both Windows and Mac OSX. The difference between the two

64 Motion 2 http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/motion/ Bluefish444 supports SD video preview output for Motion and Motion 2 Setting up Moti

65 Soundtrack Pro Bluefish444 hardware can also utilize the Video and Audio outputs to monitor Video and Audio tracks from Sound track pro. Thi

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7 SD|Prime SD| Prime is the latest PCI express1 lane card, dedicated to SD SDI digital and audio I/O. SD| Prime brings the highest quality

8 Feature Comparison Hardware SD| Fidelity SD| Focus SD| Prime Video Modes PAL 720 x 576 (4:3 and 16:9)    NTSC 720 x 486 (4:3

9 SD| Fidelity SD| Focus SD| Prime Hardware Features 2 x General Purpose I/O ports LTC I/O ports Internal RS 422 Serial Po