“Integrators in the broadcast and real-time video production market can now benefit from the latest advances in GPU acceleration,” said Sandeep Gupte, general manager of professional graphics at AMD. “Solutions built around AMD FirePro SDI-Link, with the support from broadcast technology leaders, are able to simultaneously solve the two key challenges facing video pipeline solution providers today: the need for flexible SDI input and output capabilities, and the requirement for real-time GPU-SDI communication in an integrated solution.”

By leveraging the combined decades of SDI-related experience from AMD’s technology collaborators, along with the new AMD DirectGMA technology that allows SDI I/O products and select professional graphics cards such as the new AMD FirePro(TM) V7900 SDI to communicate directly over PCI Express(R) (PCIe), customers can build solutions for virtual sets, professional video production/post-production, on-air motion graphics, on-set 3D VFX, and other scenarios. All of this can be accomplished with ease via APIs exposed in the AMD FirePro SDI-Link software developer kit, allowing the delivery of new capabilities and feature sets with never-before-seen flexibility and cost-effectiveness.

“The video broadcast market has been seeking a reliable, quality solution for some time,” said Jon Peddie, president, Jon Peddie Research. “AMD has upped the ante when it comes to the video marketplace by engaging with the top six industry leaders in this space. Kudos to AMD for tackling another market, backed by technology leadership.”

AMD FirePro SDI-Link is supported by the following companies: “One of the most important ways we can support our customers is by providing them with accelerated workflows to boost their productivity,” said Nick Rashby, President, AJA Video Systems. “AMD FirePro SDI-Link does just that, allowing AJA customers to benefit from both GPU-based and SDI solutions using AMD FirePro professional graphics and AJA’s video I/O products.”

“Blackmagic Design is looking forward to adding integration between our products and the AMD FirePro SDI-Link,” said Grant Petty, CEO, Blackmagic Design. “By supporting AMD FirePro SDI-Link, our developers will see a revolution in performance combined with extremely low latency when building intense graphics based video solutions using Blackmagic Design desktop video products and AMD graphic cards. This will be perfect for broadcasters working in areas such as weather, live news and 3D virtual sets, where high performance graphics and extremely low processing latencies are critical.”

“Bluefish444 customers have been demanding this type of collaboration between Bluefish444 and AMD for years,” said Craige Mott, managing director of Bluefish444. “Until the advent of low latency transfer between our devices, Bluefish444 customers had to compromise on the amount and quality of real-time accelerated graphics they could SDI I/O using Epoch video cards. Now, between Bluefish444 and AMD we can offer the highest quality SDI I/O and the highest quality GPU accelerated graphics, all at an ultra-low latency transfer between our respective products.”

“With the support of AMD FirePro(TM) SDI-Link, DELTACAST answers to a typical requirement of our OEM customers,” said Christian Dutilleux, CEO of DELTACAST, “And the most important for them is that we provide a built-in solution, elegantly integrated within the worshipped VideoMasterHD SDK, and certified by both AMD and DELTACAST. Thanks to the ultra-low-latency model of the AMD DirectGMA technology, developers now benefit from the incredible processing power of the professional AMD FirePro GPUs, and from the robustness and accuracy of the DELTACAST SDI multi-channel devices, to create stunning on-air graphics applications.”

“We are very excited to team up with AMD to offer developers even more options for their high-end broadcast and post production solutions,” said Juergen Heger, Senior Product Manager at DVS. “The combination of the new AMD FirePro SDI-Link with DVS’s Atomix family of video boards ensures an easy and low latency integration of DVS’s reliable SDI input and output capabilities with the GPU power of AMD FirePro SDI graphics cards.”

“Matrox DSX Developer Products are renowned among broadcast equipment manufacturers for high performance I/O hardware, a comprehensive SDK, and outstanding applications engineering support,” said Albert Cieri, Senior Director of Sales and Marketing, Matrox. “Our collaboration with AMD on the new AMD FirePro SDI-Link adds tight GPU integration which will further enhance our customer’s broadcast graphics system performance.”

The AMD FirePro V7900 SDI professional graphics card represents a number of firsts for AMD: — First AMD FirePro(TM) professional graphics card to support AMD FirePro SDI-Link and planned certified compatibility (currently in development) with all five leading manufacturers providing PCIe cards offering advanced SDI video signal I/O capabilities — First AMD FirePro professional graphics card designed specifically to address real-time professional video and broadcast graphics pipelines while delivering the same industry-leading GPU performance as the other offerings in AMD’s FirePro professional graphics line up — First to leverage AMD’s exclusive AMD DirectGMA technology to help ensure system-level, low-latency synchronized data transfer between the AMD FirePro professional graphics and 3rd-party devices over the PCIe bus The AMD FirePro(TM) V7900 SDI professional graphics card is slated for availability in October 2011 for US $2,499 MSRP.

AMD FirePro SDI-Link and AMD FirePro professional graphics are on display with industry leaders at IBC 2011 in stand 7.H35 in hall 7. Software vendors and solution providers demonstrating their use of AMD FirePro SDI-Link include: Drastic Technologies, eyeon Software, Tweak Software and Virtual Spectator. Other technology providers demonstrating at AMD’s stand include Ventuz and VizRT.

Supporting Resources — AMD FirePro(TM) SDI-Link product page — Twitter: Follow AMD professional graphics news on Twitter at @AMDFirePro — Facebook: Become a fan of AMD technology on Facebook About AMD AMD (NYSE: AMD) is a semiconductor design innovator leading the next era of vivid digital experiences with its groundbreaking AMD Fusion Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) that power a wide range of computing devices. AMD’s server computing products are focused on driving industry-leading cloud computing and virtualization environments. AMD’s superior graphics technologies are found in a variety of solutions ranging from game consoles, PCs to supercomputers. For more information, visit http://www.amd.com.

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Thx Steven from Deltacast for this idea and hopefully a nice price….

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You have to copy all files from the Ventuz installation to the USB stick.  You can copy it directly on the USB or to a dedicated folder. Copy also your VPR file to the USB stick. In the next step you have to create a shortcut to the VentuzPresenter.exe on the USB stick. This shortcut must reside on the USB stick as well. Open the Properties dialog of the new shortcut file. In the Target field of the Shortcut tab you will find anything like: I:\VENTUZ\VentuzPresenter.exe. You have to extend this to e.g.: I:\VENTUZ\VentuzPresenter.exe “My Presentation.vpr”. Press the OK button. That’s all!

If you now double-click the shortcut, your Ventuz presentation will start. There are certainly some constraints: the computer which has to start the presentation from the USB stick needs to have DirectX 9c and .Net 3.5 SP1 installed. And the security settings must allow an application to start from USB.

Stay tuned!

The “Eyevis DVI EDID emulator” (we don’t know any device name or model No.) emulates the selected/programmed EDID to the attached PC computer (emulating a DVI display) for continuous video output, even if the attached display is disconnected or powered down.

These emulators become very helpful if you want to test or setup your configuration whitout the output devices being present or if you want to switch displays without loosing the DVI signal from the source. Because most computers will deactivate the DVI output when no device is attached to it.

The EDID emulator allows the user to set up any DVI output resolution, regardless if the used device supports these resolutions or not. Most PC or DVI sources are reading the EDID of the attaced display and then limit the selectable output resolutions of the graphic card. The EDID emulator will solve this problem.

The Eyevis EDID emulator does not use presets in conjunction with a switch. In order to program the emulator, you’ll need the eye-ddc device. The eye-ddc is able to read the current EDID from the emulator or display and write the modified EDID onto the emulator or display (if the display has an EDID that is not write-protected).

UPDATE: It is not officially released yet, therefore please contact Eyevis for further information, availability and pricing.

But see for yourself:

We expect to see more of them in the near future!