Instruction manual

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Overview
Welcome
Thank you for purchasing a DeckLink broadcast video card.
We hope you share our dream for the television industry to become a truly creative industry by
allowing anyone to have access to the highest quality video.
Previously high end television and post production required investment in millions of dollars of
hardware, however with DeckLink cards, even 10 bit uncompressed is now easily affordable. We
hope you get years of use from your new DeckLink card and have fun working with some of the
world’s hottest television and design software!
This instruction manual should contain all the information you’ll need on installing your DeckLink
capture card, although it’s always a good idea to ask a technical assistant for help if you have not
installed hardware cards into computers before. As DeckLink uses uncompressed video and the
data rates are quite high, you’ll need fast disk storage and a high-end PC.
We think it should take you approximately 10 minutes to complete installation. Before you install
DeckLink, please check our website at www.blackmagic-design.com and click the support page to
download the latest updates to this manual and DeckLink driver software. Lastly, please register
your DeckLink when downloading software updates. We would love to keep you updated on new
software updates and new features for your DeckLink. Perhaps you can even send us your latest
show reel of work completed on your DeckLink and any suggestions for improvements to the
software. We are constantly working on new features and improvements, so we would love to hear
from you!
Grant Petty
CEO Blackmagic Design