SD|Greed User Manual
Limited Warranty Bluefish444 warrants that this product will be free from defects in materials and workmanship for a period of three (3) years from the date of purchase. This warranty is provided only to customers who register the Bluefish444 serial number at the place nominated on the Bluefish444 homepage.
Support Contact Details. If you have any questions please contact support at support@bluefish444.com. Email Support is free for the life of the warranty. For phone support you must register your product at http://www.bluefish444.com/support/techsupport. In order to speed the resolution of your problem please ensure that you provide the following information when contacting support. • • • • • • System configuration and manufacture, Mother board type and Devices installed. SCSI or RAID controller card type.
Contents ....................................................................................................................................................................... 1 SD|Greed........................................................................................................................................................ 1 User Manual...................................................................................................................................................
Overview.................................................................................................................................................. 23 External Connections........................................................................................................................... 23 Internal Connections............................................................................................................................ 24 SD|Greed Cable Connection Guide ...........................
Pixel Format......................................................................................................................................... 47 Input Signal Type. ............................................................................................................................... 47 Output Video Mode. ............................................................................................................................ 47 Key Channel. .................................................
Appendix A - Bluefish444 Driver Installation ........................................................................................ 61 1) New Installations. ........................................................................................................................ 61 2) Installing From Previous Installations ......................................................................................... 61 3) Manual Removal of Bluefish444 files and Drivers............................................
Overview SD|Greed is the latest, dedicated SD digital and analog video and audio card from Bluefish444. SD|Greed brings the highest quality SD video and audio to Windows, Apple and Linux platforms. SD|Greed is a combination of all our SD products and the needs of the professional studios all rolled in to one PCI card. SD|Greed supports 12 bit digital SDI I/O, capable of supporting the complete range of SDI connection standards up to 12 bit Dual link (4:4:4) I/O including Dual link Video + Key (4:2:2:4).
The sample rate converters are genuine, high order poly-phase interpolation filters rather than the minimalist algorithms found in some competing systems SD|Greed also includes RS 422 deck control and Bi level sync genlock input SD|Greed is a single 32 bit PCI card supporting 32 bit/64 bit PCI /PCI-X slots at 66/33 MHz bus speeds.
Features SD|Greed provides a professional set of hardware and software features that compliments a large range of off the shelf retail and OEM solutions Hardware Video Modes • • PAL 720 x 576 (4:3) & PAL 720 x 576 (Widescreen 16:9) NTSC 720 x 486 (4:3) & NTSC 720 x 486 (Widescreen 16:9) Digital Signal Format • • • • • 12/10 bit SD SDI I/O Dual link 4:4:4, 4:4:4:4 (RGB/YUV) I/O 4:2:2:4 Video and Key (YUV) I/O Single link 4:2:2 (YUV) I/O 2 x Independent/Simultaneous SDI I/O Analog Signal Format • • 1
• • • • • • • 4 X RS 422 Serial Ports, 1 external Built-in safe area, safe title and letterbox generator Audio sample rate converters Genlock. 128MB. Onboard RAM PCI 32 bit 66 MHz or PCI 32 bit 33 MHz PCI X 133 slot Software Windows Bluefish444 supports a range of software solutions and applications supported with the Bluefish444 retail installer that is shipped with your product box or downloadable on the Bluefish444 web site in the downloads section.
• • • • Shuttle & Jog. Drop frame error reporting on playback and capture. Log mode for system/Storage performance benchmarking Import batch and capture list from supported 3rd party applications such as AVID’s DS Nitris and Assimilates’s Scratch For further information on Symmetry, refer to the Symmetry user manual included in the installation CDROM and on the Bluefish444 web site.
• • SD DV AVI file format is 1/10th the size of SD 10 bit YUV uncompressed files, reducing storage capacity and can be used for SD and HD uncompressed offline editing SD DV offline AVI is an industry standard file format, providing DV editors with a migration option to uncompressed SDI I/O.
Supported Retail Applications SD|Greed supports a range of retail and OEM solutions that are readily available from various resellers or directly from the manufacture. SD|Greed provides professional editors, compositors and artists with a choice of solutions on various platforms. The support is continually growing, they include; Digital Intermediate & I/O. Multi file format capture and playback solutions that can digitize to a range of file formats, import edls, encode etc.
NLE, Conform Digitizing, monitoring, editing and conforming digital content for export to decks or other distributed mediums. • • • Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5.1 Apple Final Cut Pro Nucoda Data Conform Video Servers, Clip Servers, Encoders, Ingest.
What’s in the Box When you open the Bluefish444 SD|Greed Box you will find the following items; • • • • Bluefish444 SD|Greed 32 bit PCI Card. CDROM Software and documentation including Symmetry application, Feature Application control panel, Adobe Premiere Pro plug ins, After Effects plug ins, Adobe Photoshop plug ins, QuickTime Codec. Reference card cable connection guide.
System Requirements SD|Greed supports a range of software solutions that requires different system configurations and requirements. It is recommended that you contact the software manufacture for the correct system configuration. For further information on supported software please refer to http://www.bluefish444.com/support/compatibility/hardware/. For detailed information on hardware configurations for Symmetry and Adobe Premiere Pro, refer to the Bluefish444 manuals for each application.
Premiere Pro 1.5.1 Bluefish444 has introduced real-time effects and multi file format playback with in the Adobe Premiere Pro editing solution. RT Effects playback are scalable and based on the performance of the CPU and disk storage ability to access multiple streams of compressed or uncompressed video and audio clips simultaneously. CPU Minimum Recommended P4 3.0 Ghz Intel Dual Xenon 2.4 Ghz, AMD Opteron 242+ Operating System Windows XP SP2, QuickTime 6.5.2, Direct X 9.
Adobe After Effects 6.5 Minimum Recommended CPU P4 3.0 Ghz Intel Dual Xenon 2.4 Ghz, AMD Opteron 242+ Operating System Windows XP SP2, QuickTime 6.5.2, Direct X 9.0C Windows XP SP2, QuickTime 6.5.2 Direct X 9.
Storage Requirements SD|Greed is primarily an uncompressed capture and playback card providing an unprecedented level of quality on the Windows, Linux and Apple Mac OS systems. Bluefish444 recommends that your storage system be able to provide and sustain a data rate up to 45 MB per sec for single stream applications and at least up to 90 MB for dual stream and above for multiple stream solutions.
Real Time Playback in Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5.1 Bluefish444 has introduced real-time effects and multi file format playback within the Adobe Premiere Pro editing solution. Performance of RT Effects playback in Adobe Premiere Pro is scalable and increases as the system performance increases. The amount of data streams is based on the performance of the system CPU and the disk storages ability to access multiple streams of video and audio clips simultaneously to sustain real-time playback .
Storage Capacity Guide W X H X Rate E.G. PAL v210 = (720 X 576 X 40/15) MB/sec RGB(10) (40/10) MB/sec RGBA(8) (40/10) MB/sec RGB (8) (40/13) MB/sec V210 (40/15) MB/sec BV10 (40/16) MB/sec 720 X 576I @ 50 720 X 486I @ 60/1.001 41.57 41.98 41.57 41.98 31.10 31.46 27.65 27.97 25.92 26.
Cable Connection Overview SD|Greed connects to external devices via the break out cables supplied. Connections can be customized depending on the type of source or monitoring equipment you have.
Internal Connections SD|Greed supports the following internal connection options. Cables are available for OEM solutions only and are not shipped with the retail product. Deck Control • 3 additional RS-422 Connectors.
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SD|Greed Cable Connection Guide RS 422 Deck Control Analog Audio (1) RCA 2 Ch Analog Audio (2) XLR 2 Ch Digital Audio (1) 8 Ch S/P DIF (BNC) Digital Audio (2) 6 Ch AES/EBU (XLR) Analog Video Digital Video & Genlock 26
Digital Video I/O & Genlock (DVID 1) SDI ‘A’ OUT (DVID 2) SDI ’B’ OUT (DVID 3) SDI ‘A’ IN (DVID 4) SDI ‘B’ IN Mini Din male 9 pin (DVID 5) SDI ‘X’ OUT GENLOCK SD|Greed supports two SD SDI inputs and three SDI outputs. SD|Greed supports independent inputs and outputs allowing for a combination of two simultaneous capture and playback streams. The Digital video cable can be customized to support a range of SDI dual link and single link modes.
Analog Video I/O (AVID 1) Y/G/CVBS Output (AVID 2) U/B/Y Output (AVID 3) V/R/C Output (AVID 4) Y/G/CVBS I/O Mini Din male 9 pin (AVID 5) U/B/Y I/O (AVID 6) V/R/C I/O The analog video cable can support a range of input and output combinations. Combined with the SDI I/O cables the SD|Greed provides effective Broadcast quality conversion between digital to analog and analog to digital.
Digital Audio Option 1 - S/P DIF BNC 8 Channels I/O, Unbalanced DIG AUDIO IN 1/2 DIG AUDIO IN 3/4 DIG AUDIO IN 5/6 DIG AUDIO IN 7/8 DIG AUDIO OUT 1/2 DIG AUDIO OUT 3/4 DIG AUDIO OUT 5/6 DIG AUDIO OUT 7/8 SD|Greed provides 8 BNC connectors. Each BNC connector supports a pair of pair channels. There are 4 pairs for input and 4 pairs for output. Note: These BNC connections produce digital signals and can not be used with analog speakers.
Digital Audio Option 2 - AES/EBU XLR 6 Channels I/O, Balanced DIG AUDIO OUT 1/2 DIG AUDIO OUT 3/4 DIG AUDIO OUT 5/6 DIG AUDIO IN 1/2 DIG AUDIO IN 3/4 DIG AUDIO IN 5/6 SD|Greed provides 6 XLR connectors, supporting AES/EBU balanced digital audio. 3 female XLR pairs provides 6 channels of input and 3 male XLR pairs provides 6 channels of output.
Analog Audio Option 1 - RCA Dual channel, Unbalanced AN AUDIO IN LEFT AN AUDIO IN RIGHT AN AUDIO OUT LEFT AN AUDIO OUT RIGHT SD|Greed provides 2 RCA, unbalanced analog input and 2 RCA unbalanced analog output connectors, one for each channel. The connectors are RCA-style (“phono”) jacks which allow you to connect into a range of analog monitoring devices such as phono jack speakers and headphones for in expensive monitoring of audio.
Analog Audio Option 2 - XLR Dual channel, Balanced AN AUDIO OUT LEFT AN AUDIO OUT RIGHT AN AUDIO IN LEFT AN AUDIO IN RIGHT SD|Greed provides 2 balanced analog input and 2 balanced analog output connectors, one for each channel. The connectors are XLR male for input and female for output.
Deck Control A Male DB8 connector provides connection between the SD|Greed card and decks, DDRS, cameras and other supported devices using RS422 SMPTE (Sony) protocol. . The SD|Greed also supports a further 3 internal connectors for RS - 422 control that are available for OEM configurations only. The DB8 connector is wired to the Apple standard. All four serial ports may be either master or slave connection under software control.
Windows XP Installation Installation Check List. Make sure you have the following installed prior to installing the SD|Greed card. Requirements. • • • • • • • • Administrator rights to your system and logged on as the user that had previously performed the installation of the bluefish444 hardware and software, QuickTime 6.5.2, Windows XP service pack 1a or 2 with latest .
Step 1 - Update your system. Ensure you have installed the latest drivers and BIOS updates for your system. Please refer to the certified hardware guide section for more information. http://www.bluefish444.com/support/compatibility/hardware/ • • Install the latest drivers for your system Ensure you have the latest updates and service packs for your system Step 2 - Install 3rd party applications. It is normally best to have the application(s) pre installed before running the Bluefish444 installer.
Step 3 - Install QuickTime version 6.5.2 or above Download and install the latest QuickTime installer available at the following site. http://www.apple.com/quicktime/ Step 4 - Install 3rd party application plug-ins and updates Install Deck control software for Premiere Pro 1.5 and the Premiere Pro 1.5.1 update which is available at the Adobe website. NOTE Premiere Pro is supported only on the Windows XP operating system. Deck Control plug-ins We have tested and recommend the Digital Pipe Pro VTR version 7.
7. Remove the PCI slot aperture for the corresponding slot the SD|Greed card will be inserted into. For more detailed information on correct slots for your motherboard or system type, please refer to the Bluefish systems and hardware support section at;http://www.bluefish444.com/support/compatibility/hardware/ NOTE Certain slots on motherboards share the same bus. Motherboards supporting PCI-X 133 MHz slots usually are on a separate bus and will not be affected by inserting the SD|Greed card.
Installing your SD|Greed Card 1. Remove the Bluefish SD|Greed card from the antistatic bag.. 2. Hold the card by the PCI shield top and at the top of the PCB at the opposite end of the PCI shield. This will reduce any chance of any damage of the bluefish444 card circuitry. 3. Do not touch the components on the PCB, do not touch the PCI slot mating edge. Areas to apply force On edge of PCB and PCI shield Co (see handling region diagram below). 4.
Step 7 - Connecting to the outside world The Bluefish SD|Greed is and extremely versatile Video/Audio I/O card that can connect to a range of devices simultaneously. There will be a range of connection workflows that can not be covered by this manual instead we will focus on two typical connection work flows commonly used in the professional broadcast industry.
Typical Connection Workflow 1 The following example is a typical workflow you might use if your source is SDI but you have analog monitoring for video and audio and two channels of audio are required. • • • SDI video I/O Digital XLR audio I/O 2 Channels of Audio Analog video and audio monitoring Your source and master is Digital SDI for video and Digital Audio by AES/EBU XLR .
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 audio for surround sound 5.1 editing • • • • SDI video I/O with 8 channels of embedded audio Digital XLR audio I/O 6 Channels of Audio Analog video monitoring - component Genlock Your source and master is Digital SDI for video and Digital Audio via AES/EBU XLR .
Step 8 Driver Installation The SD|Greed is a multiplatform video card supporting the Windows, Apple Mac OS and Linux operating systems. This manual will cover the installation procedures for the Windows operating system only. APPLE Mac OS Installation For installation of the SD|Greed on the Apple MAX OS platform please refer to the SD|Greed MAX OS installation manual. SDK Installation Bluefish provides a software developers kit for the windows and linux platforms.
New Installations If this is the first time a Bluefish444 card has been installed in your system, 1. Turn on your system with an installed supported Bluefish444 video card. 2. When Windows loads, you may be presented with “New Hardware Found“ Dialog box. 3. Close the Dialog box. 4. Run the Bluefish444 installer vXXX 5. Select next and say yes to all prompts to continue.
6. Restart your system 7. Go to “Start” menu button and select “Turn Off Computer”. 8. Select “Turn Off” to shut down your system for a few seconds 9. Restart your system 10. You may under certain circumstances see another “new hardware found” dialog box appear after you restart your computer system because the firmware introduces a new Rev ID, and so to the operating system it is a new device. in the “found new hardware Wizard” dialog box select “install the software automatically” option. 11. Select next.
d. Bluefish444 installer 4.1.2, e. Bluefish444 installer 5.XX 3. Restart your system NOTE; The Bluefish Windows retail and SDK installer supports a range of Bluefish444 video cards, insure the installer you are using has support for the SD|Greed. Contact the application manufacture or your reseller for further information. Install the Buefish444 Installer. After your system restarts you may be presented with “New Hardware Found“ Dialog box. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Close the Dialog box if present.
Controlling the SD|Greed About the Bluefish444 Feature Application. The Bluefish444 feature application allows you to control and monitor your Bluefish444 Video I\O card. It can be used as a diagnostic tool and provides an interface to enable or disable extended features independently of your current software application. The Bluefish444 feature app provides at a glance a range of information about what video mode and pixel format your card is currently operating in. Feature App Main Control Interface.
Card Type This tells you what card you have installed and is currently active for the Feature Application. If you have more than one Bluefish444 card installed the feature application will ask you which card you wish to attach to each time the Feature App is launched. Pixel Format. Indicates what pixel format, the card is set to. Pixel formats are also referred to as the frame buffer mode, engine or memory format the hardware is currently operating in.
Key Channel. This section gives you direct control of the output signal format from your Bluefish444 product. Altering these settings will override what the current application has set the card to. In most cases you will not need to use these features as the application will enable or disable them.
Set; Commits any changes made to the new default power up values Miscellaneous Functions. Signal format converter; (HD product range only); The SD|Greed does not support HD to SD down conversion Safe Picture; Enable and disables the safe picture overlay on the SDI output. Safe Title; Enable and disables the safe title overlay on the SDI output.
Time Code (currently not supported) • • • RP-188 Time code User Bits Output Time code Offset Letter Box. This section controls the letter box feature that Bluefish444 hardware supports. Letterbox blanks the top and bottom of the screen. This su used to create a 16.94:3 monitor Letter box lines Controls the amount of horizontal blanking lines at the top and bottom of the screen.
Video The video features can be broken down into 4 sections; • Analog Output Signal Type • Input Signal Type • Analog Video Output Properties • Analog Video Input Properties 51
Analog Output Signal Type. The SD|Greed supports a range of output configurations consisting of a mixture of digital and analog I/O options. The SD|Greed’s analog I/O cables have 6 connectors that can be configured between Composite, S Video, Component YUV, Component RGB input and output.
Video Input Signal Type SD|Greed supports both digital and analog input signal types such as; Analog • Composite • S-Video • Component YUV Digital • SDI A • SDI B Currently the SD|Greed supports either a Digital or analog input. In the next free driver release the SD|Greed will be able to have a combination of Digital and analog inputs and outputs as independent and simultaneous streams. To select the input type you desire, select the Input Signal Type drop down box and select your input signal.
Analog Configuration Guide The SD|Greed supports an array of configurations that can be selected by using the “Analog output signal type” selector and the “Input signal type” selector. Numerous combinations are available. In general any of the analog video connectors that are not used as inputs can be used as outputs. Therefore the table below is arranged to show which output signal types will be available given the output signal type that will be used.
Analog Video Output Signal Properties. The feature application allows you to manually adjust the analog output signal properties. By using the vertical slider bars on this tab you can adjust various signal properties for the output and save them as the default load up values. The output signal fields that can be adjusted are; • Luma Gain • Chroma Gain • Hue • Black level • Sharpness Unity This button centers each slider bar to the default values of 0.0 Enable PED This adds the 7.
Analog Video Input Signal Properties Analog input only. The input signal properties tab is similar to output except for the sharpness option has been removed. • Luma Gain • Chroma Gain • Hue • Black level Unity. This button centers each slider bar to the default values of 0.0 Enable PED. Removes the 7.5 IRE “pedestal” from analog NTSC signals. If you know your input has a pedestal information you will need to check the “Enable Pedestal” box. Load Default values. Loads the default values.
Save as Default. Save the current settings as the default power up values. Refresh. Returns the value to the current defaults. Close. Close the Bluefish444 feature Application utility.
Audio I/O Settings The SD|Greed supports a diverse range of audio connectivity options than any other video I/O card in its class.
Digital Audio to Analog Audio Monitor Routing With the SD|Greed you can monitor the 8 digital audio channels with the analog audio outputs. For example of you wish to listen to digital outputs 1 & 2 and wish to route them to the analog pairs for monitoring you simple select channels 1 and 2 to route to analog left and right pairs.
Appendices Appendix A – Manual Bluefish Driver and DLL Removal 1. New Installations. 2. Installing From Previous Installations 3.
Appendix A - Bluefish444 Driver Installation 1) New Installations. 2) Installing From Previous Installations 3) Manual Removal of Bluefish444 files and Drivers 1) New Installations. If this is the first time a Bluefish444 card has been installed in your system; 1. Turn on your system with the SD|Greed video card installed int eh correct slot. 2. When Windows loads, you may be presented with “New Hardware Found“ Dialog box. 3. Close the Dialog box. 4. Run the Bluefish444 installer v5.X.X 5.
2) Installing From Previous Installations 1. 2. 3. 4. Close all applications. Uninstall all previous Bluefish4444 Installers. In the Windows Control panel, go to Add or Remove Programs, Uninstall all Bluefish444 installers in the Add remove programs dialog box e.g.; Bluefish444 installer 5.1.9. 5. Follow all on bard prompts. 6. Restart your system. 7. Run the Bluefish444 installer v5.X.X 8. Say yes to all prompts to continue. 9. Select yes to shut down the system if required. 10.
3) Manual Removal of Bluefish444 files and Drivers Step 1 - Uninstall Bluefish4444 Installers. 1. Make sure you have closed all applications, 2. In the Windows Control panel, go to Add or Remove Programs, 3. Uninstall all Bluefish444 installers in the Add remove programs dialog box Step 2 - Remove Bluefish444 Drivers and System files. Note, you will be deleting files that are in system folders, ensure you do not delete incorrect files as this may affect the operation of your system.
a. b. c. d. e. BlueDriver.sys BlueSD.sys BlueGM.sys BlueHD.sys BlueBAG_X.rbf files, X denotes a numeric value e.g. BlueBAG_147.rbf Step 3 - Delete Plug-in’s. 18. In the Start menu, select the Search Utility and select the “Files or Folders” option. 19. In the “What do you want to search for” option box select “ All Files and Folders”. 20. Type in and search for the following files and delete all instances of them. For After Effects a. Bluefish444IO.aex b. bluefishemp.aex c. bluefishio.
28. Run the Bluefish444 installer v5.X.X 29. Say yes to all prompts to continue.. 30. Select yes to shut down the system if required. 31. If your system does not shut down automatically; 32. Go to “Start” menu button and select “Turn Off Computer”. 33. Select “Turn Off” to shut down your system. 34. Restart your system 35. You may under certain circumstances see another “new hardware found” dialog box, this is because the firmware introduces a new Rev ID, and so to the operating system it is a new device.
Appendix B – The Onboard Keyer Key image generated from application SD|Greed key’s frame buffer image over input stream Image is overlaid in RT Output From Source The onboard keyer feature provide the use the ability to overlay over the input signal in real time with any frame buffered image or frame generated from applications that support RGBA.
5. Launch your supported digital content creation tool, for example Adobe After Effects. Set the composition resolution and frame rate to the input of the source you wish to overlay. 6. You should see the input source outputted to the SDI monitor. 7. Create some content like text, the text will be overlaid in real time. 8. You can also create an animation loop by loading the animation to RAM player and looping the playback. 9.
