Magewell Pro Capture HDMI 4K Capture Card (1-Channel)

Description

The Pro Capture HDMI 4K Capture Card from Magewell is a low-profile PCIe x4 card that allows for capturing a single channel of HDMI + embedded audio. The card supports extraction of audio formation information and channel status data, video timing information, 3D format information, and Sony/Canon DSLR timecode. The card is also capable of performing various video processing features, including cropping, scaling, deinterlacing, aspect ratio conversion, colour format conversion, video frame rate conversion, and video OSD composition.

Features

HDMI Features

• 297 MHz HDMI receiver
• Adaptive HDMI equaliser
• Supports customised EDID
• Supports extraction of AVI/Audio/SPD/MS/VS/ACP/ISRC1/ISRC2/Gamut info frames
• Full colourimetry support
• Supports 8-bit signals that use RGB/YUV 4:4:4 colour sampling at pixel rate no more than 297 MHz
• Supports 12-bit signals that use YUV 4:2:2 colour sampling at pixel rate no more than 297 MHz
• Supports 10/12-bit signals that use RGB/YUV 4:4:4 colour sampling at pixel rate no more than 170 MHz
• Supports extraction of audio formation information and channel status data
• Supports extraction of video timing information
• Supports extraction of 3D format information
• Supports extraction of Sony/Canon DSLR timecode
• Supports side-by-side half, top-and-bottom, frame packing 3D mode

Video Processing Features

• Two video processing pipelines with 360 MP/s processing bandwidth for each one
• Full 10-bit video processing
• Wave, blend top and bottom field, top field only, and bottom field only deinterlacing modes
• Auto or manual selection of input and output aspect ratio
• Three aspect ratio conversion modes (ignore (anamorphic), cropping, or padding (letterbox or pillarbox))
• Auto or manual selection of input colour format and quantisation range
• Auto or manual selection of output colour format, quantisation range, and saturation range
• Supports RGB, YCbCr 601, YCbCr 709, YCbCr 2020 colour formats
• Supports limited or full quantisation range
• Supports limited, full, and extended gamut saturation range
• Supports PNG OSD image (up to 4096 x 2160)
• Supports dynamic loading of RGBA OSD image via SDK

Multiple Cards per System

• Supports multiple cards in one system
• On-board rotary switch to set card number, with 16 positions from 0 to F
• System hardware device tree will display 01: Pro Capture AIO when rotary switch is set to 1, and so on
• The video and audio device names displayed in your software will include the card number (set by the rotary switch)

Multiple Capture Streams

• Unlimited capture streams for any one input channel
• Independent cropping, aspect ratio, colour format, resolution, frame rate, deinterlacing, and colour adjustment settings for each individual stream

Ultra-Low Latency Support

• Latency of 64 video lines
• Partial notification mode in SDK

Timestamp & AV Synchronisation

• Hardware-based 100ns high-resolution clock
• Audio frames (192 audio samples) & video frames are stamped with hardware clock
• Hardware clock can be synchronised across cards (via SDK)

Video Output SG-DMA

• Supports auto detection of Intel tiled GPU surface
• Supports DirectGMA for AMD video adapter chipsets
• Supports GPUDirect for NVIDIA video adapter chipsets
• 1200 MB/s per channel DMA bandwidth in PCIe 2.0 system and 800 MB/s per channel DMA bandwidth in PCIe 1.0 system

SDK

• Pro Capture SDK for DirectShow for easy integration (Windows)
• Pro Capture SDK for DirectKS for maximum flexibility & performance (Windows)

Windows Driver Tweaks

• All options can be controlled by three levels of registry key: global level, product level, and device level
• Video, audio, crossbar filter names can be customised via registry keys

Firmware Upgrade

• Multiple cards in one system can be upgraded simultaneously
• Cards can be upgraded without a system power shutdown (in most cases, even a reboot is not needed)