Avid Artist / DNxIQ Video I/O Interface

Beautiful performance
Get the bandwidth, versatility and efficiency you need to capture, monitor and output high-res media using your favorite video and audio tools. Avid Artist I/O interfaces offer extensive format support, enabling you to respond quickly to changing demands and deliver content to a wider range of channels and devices. With four interfaces to choose from, you can plug into any professional production, work with SD, HD, UHD, 4K, HDR and surround sound content and leverage such capabilities as video over IP and Universal Mastering. It's the smartest way to simplify your workflow, so you can complete projects faster.

Future-proof your workflow
Avid Artist I/O interfaces offer extensive HD and high-res format support across four interfaces-Avid Artist | DNxIQ, Avid Artist | DNxIV, new Avid Artist | DNxIP and new Avid Artist | DNxID. This flexibility future-proofs your production, enabling you to work with today's high-res formats, while supporting HD and SD too. You can also work with 2K or 4K media and deliver in HD with the onboard real-time down-converter, enabling you to transition to high-res at your own pace.

Get connected
Avid Artist I/O offers a wide range of analog and digital I/O to plug into today's diverse media productions. Connect all of your gear-from 4K cameras, video decks and UHD devices, to HDR and audio monitors, mics and switchers. Each interface provides a different complement of connectivity, which may include SDI, optical, HDMI, XLR, RS-422, component and other connections, to tie together your studio.

Have the power you need
The demands of 2K and 4K media can bring any video production to its knees, but not with Avid Artist I/O at the core. With high-speed Thunderbolt 3 connectivity available on all interfaces, you get the bandwidth you need-up to 40 Gb/s-to ensure the smoothest performance and operation. No matter how hard you push it.

Choose from four unique interfaces
While all four interfaces deliver exceptional performance and reliability, each benefits different workflows. Avid Artist | DNxIQ offers the most extensive connectivity, plus onboard real-time baseband to Avid DNxHR encoding and Universal Mastering, for larger video post environments.

Capture, monitor and output content with ease

Get extensive format support
Open your media workflow to handle every popular media format. Avid Artist I/O interfaces support a wide range of video formats, including 4K (DCI), 2K (DCI), UHD, 1080p, 1080i, 720p, NTSC and PAL. Work with a variety of codecs. Get onboard DNxHR encoding with Avid Artist | DNxIQ. View your work across a gamut of color spaces, including HDR monitoring. You can even take advantage of onboard 3D processing to support 3D stereoscopic workflows.

Capture pristine quality video
Create and deliver content in the highest quality imaginable-from first ingest to final output. Each interface offers a host of professional, premium-quality video and audio connectors, providing support for a variety of video cameras, devices and high frame-rate workflows. Handle HD, Ultra HD and full 4K media with ease-at up to 60 fps-and everything in between.

Use your favorite tools
Avid Artist I/O is an easy fit for any production, working with a wide range of professional Avid and third-party video editing, audio, visual effects and graphics software. This gives you the flexibility to capture, edit, monitor, output and deliver high-quality content using the tools you know and love now-and the solutions you may want in the future.

Record voiceovers easily
Need to overdub some dialog or narration? It's easy. Only Avid Artist I/O enables you to capture high-quality recordings through direct audio punch-ins to the Media Composer timeline using the front-panel XLR microphone input. All interfaces also provide 48V of phantom power, so you can use condenser mics without requiring a separate audio interface or power supply.

Boost your bandwidth
Get the reliable throughput you need to handle high-resolution formats. All interfaces feature lightning-fast Thunderbolt 3 connectivity, providing transfer speeds up to 40 Gb/s to your Mac or Windows-based host computer (Avid Artist | DNxIQ also offers optional PCIe connectivity). Experience exceptional performance, highly accurate time sync and ultra-low latency-even with bandwidth-intensive 4K workflows.

Accelerate your workflow
Avid Artist I/O offers additional benefits to speed and ease your workflow. With onboard down-, up- and cross-conversion, you can quickly scale media to meet your production needs. Plus, you can keep things in perfect sync with the internal clock, genlock reference and linear time code lock.

Monitor surround sound mixes
No need to connect a separate audio monitoring solution into your workflow. You can monitor 5.1 and 7.1 surround sound mixes using any of the interfaces. Avid Artist | DNxIQ offers 8 channels of audio through SDI and HDMI (embedded audio).

Connect everything
Avid Artist | DNxIQ offers the most extensive array of analog and digital connections to support the widest range of cameras, drives, monitors, speakers, routers, switchers and other devices. From 12G/6G/3G-SDI, Optical, HDMI 2 and AES/EBU connectors, to XLR, LTC, RS-422, composite, component and a headphone jack, Avid Artist | DNxIQ provides all the ins and outs you need to connect your studio.

Work faster and easier
Avid Artist | DNxIQ offers a built-in hardware encoder to capture to Avid DNxHR, enabling you to edit 4K files easily and speed up your workflow. It also enables you to see exactly what media is being ingested or sent out of production through the built-in front-panel HD LCD. Change your source or time code input with the press of a button. And get reliable operation-and peace of mind-with redundant power supplies.

Get Universal Mastering
To speed and ease playback and tape workflows, Avid Artist | DNxIQ offers accelerated Universal Mastering, enabling you to deliver broadcast/final masters in virtually any format, for any market. The interface offers real-time format and frame-rate conversion on all baseband SDI, HDMI and analog output connections, making it the ideal-and most efficient-finishing companion for Media Composer | Ultimate or Media Composer with the Media Composer | Symphony Option.