User guide

Viz Engine Administrator’s Guide

12 BlueFish444

Viz 3.5 and later supports the BlueFish444 Epoch 4K SuperNova board. This board

replaces the SD Lite Pro Express, which for Viz 3.5 installations will work, but is

considered a legacy board.

Note: Other BlueFish444 and Digital Voodoo boards are no longer supported (see

the Legacy Cards section).

The BlueFish444 Epoch 4K SuperNova board is intended for character generators such

as Viz Trio, but can also be used as an alternative where only two inputs and outputs

are required. The board is typically installed on HP Z800 machines.

Some of the main supported features are:

• Embedded audio input and output. Note that all 16 channels are used; however,

there are currently no configuration options available for these channels (e.g.

routing of channels, enable/disable channels etc)

• ANC data (HANC and VANC), such as VITC and RP188 timecodes is supported. Data

from the input is overlayed on the output. Ingestion of timecodes from time code

reader boards are supported as well

• Two video inputs and outputs and one genlock

• Automatic bypass (aka Watchdog) of video if the Viz Engine crashes

• Constant delay of 4 frames from input to output

This section contains information on the following topics:

• Connectors

• Configuration History for BlueFish444

• Watchdog