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Realtime Editing Platform for Digital Television

Matrox® DigiSuite DTV is a highly-integrated, single-slot PCI controller that combines an award-winning realtime mix/effects engine with the complete range of compression formats, audio and video I/O, and connectivity interfaces for digital television. DigiSuite DTV comes with a comprehensive Windows NT® DirectShowT-based SDK (compatible with DigiSuite) to enable OEMs and developers to create a wide variety of cost-effective, high-performance audio/video products and applications including: realtime NLE systems, multilayer compositors, character generators, CATV barker channels, animation workstations, graphics/paint systems, and DVD authoring stations.

Product Features

Advanced Realtime Features - All Simultaneously Available!

• Two streams of video plus 32-bit animated graphics.
  
• Two wipe/tile generators .
  
• Two channels of color correction .
  
• Two channels of keyframeable 2D DVE
  
• Two independent chroma/luma keyers
  
• Independent transparency control on all layers
  
• Optional 3D DVE .

• Support for all DV and DV50 formats including Panasonic DVCPRO and DVCPRO 50, JVC Digital- S, Sony DVCAM, and the DV "Blue Book" specification used by several vendors including Sony, JVC, Canon, Sharp, and Panasonic
  
• MPEG-2 4:2:2 I-frame for variable bit rates between 10 and 50 Mbps
  
• MPEG-2 4:2:2P@ML and MPEG-2 MP@ML transcoding and output for distribution applications such as broadcast transmission, video server storage, archiving, DVD, and web video streaming.
  
• Bi-directional Motion-JPEG to DV transcoding allows exchange of material between DigiSuite/DigiSuite LE cards and DigiSuite DTV cards.

• 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratio support
  
• Composite, Y/C, and analog component video I/O is standard
  
• 4 in/4 out, balanced/unbalanced analog I/O is standard
  
• Audio clock genlocked to video reference in accordance with SMPTE-272M and AES11-1991
  
• Movie-2 bus expansion connector
  
• Optional 1394 interface card provides an IEEE-1394 link and an ultra-wide SCSI controller
  
• Optional SDI interface module with AES/EBU digital audio I/O
  
• Optional Matrox SDTI interface card with eight embedded audio I/O channels supports faster than realtime digital video transfers (Please refer to the Matrox SDTI datasheet for detailed information.)
  
• Additional codec onboard Matrox SDTI card provides realtime print-to-disk in any format, realtime SDTI output, realtime MPEG-to-DV transcoding, and realtime MPEG-to-MPEG transcoding for GOP structure and bit rate modifications
  
• Optional realtime 3D DVE card