Grass Valley HD-Spark PCI Express Bus Card, Standa
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Grass Valley / Canopus HD-Spark PCI Express x1 Bus Card with Nonlinear Editing & HDMI Out - Standalone

SKU: VDCAHESH

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2012-05-23T21:00:00

Rated 5 out of 5

Best product for grass valley editors

It does works the best. makes your job easier

CHIRAGKUMAR P.

2012-05-13T21:00:00

Rated 5 out of 5

great product

great product , works very well.

chirag

2012-04-22T21:00:00

Rated 5 out of 5

Perfect Card for the Price

This is great card for the cost to get a true yuv signal out to reference monitor while editing. It is the least expensive card offered by Grass Valley. The nice thing about the card is it does exactly what it is advertised to do.

Jerry

2012-01-22T19:00:00

Rated 4 out of 5

Nice Option for Edius Editors

Quick to install. Nice/easy way to output full screen image to a large LCD or Plasma TV via HDMI to see exactly how your video will look on consumer TV's. Only drawback is the card only supports a few project resolution/frame rate settings. Would be a 5 star if it supported more settings.

ROBERT F.

Grass Valley HD-Spark PCI Express Bus Card, Standa Specifications

  • Bus Interface

    PCI Express Rev. 1.0a x1 lane

  • Video Formats (Output) (HDMI)

    1920x1080i50/59.94
    1920x1080p23.98
    1280x720p50/59.94
    720x480i59.94
    720x576i50
    720x480p59.94
    720x576p50

  • Video Output Connector

    HDMI 1 port (HDCP not supported)

  • Audio Formats

    LPCM 48kHz 24-bit

  • Audio Output Connectors

    HDMI LPCM 8-channel
    Monitor: 1x stereo RCA (unbalanced)

  • Power Requirements

    +12V: 0.05A, +3.3V: 0.9A

  • Regulatory Compliance

    CE, FCC CLASS B, C-Tick

  • Processor required

    Intel or AMD CPU with a 3 GHz processor speed or faster (multiple CPUs and/or multi-core CPUs are recommended - minimum SSE2 instruction set required)

  • Memory required

    1 GB RAM (2 GB or more recommended)

  • PCI Slot required

    One free PCI Express x1 slot

  • Hard drive space required

    800 MB or more space required for software installation
    Drive with ATA100/7,200 rpm or faster capable of sustaining at least 20 MB/s data transfer
    Available HDD disk space should be twice the size of the file to be edited
    A RAID stripe set of two or more hard disk drives is required for multiple HD stream output

  • Graphics card required

    A graphics card with at least 256 MB of graphics memory (512 MB recommended) with support for Direct3D 9.0c or later and PixelShader Model 3.0 or later is required (PixelShader Model 4.0 or later recommended)

  • Sound card required

    Sound card with WDM driver support required

  • Optical drive required

    DVD-ROM for software installation
    DVD-R/RW or DVD+R/RW drive for creating DVD-Video with DVD Creator

  • USB Port

    Free USB port (1.1 or higher) for security key

  • Operating System required

    Windows XP Home or Windows XP Professional (SP2 or later, 32-bit)
    Windows Vista (SP1 or later, 32- or 64-bit), including the following operating systems:
    Windows Vista Home Basic
    Windows Vista Home Premium
    Windows Vista Business
    Windows Vista Ultimate

  • Dimensions

    68.9 x 97 mm (2.71 x 3.82 in.) (HxW)

  • Warranty

    Grass Valley / Canopus 1 year limited warranty

  • UPC Code

    631069600353

About Grass Valley HD-Spark PCI Express Bus Card, Standa

FEATURED REVIEWS

Best product for grass valley editors

By CHIRAGKUMAR P.

It does works the best. makes your job easier

great product

By chirag

great product , works very well.

The Grass Valley / Canopus HDSPARK (Standalone) hardware solution is ideal if you're working in a file-based, networked environment and need to see your projects output in real-time, using affordable HDMI monitors.

Based on the PCI Express form factor, it is available with full or upgradable versions or EDIUS nonlinear editing software - as well as an HDMI output board supports full-resolution, real-time preview monitoring. It also features embedded HDMI audio and separate stereo RCA jacks for high-quality audio monitoring. The HDSPARK solution also empowers you with constantly synched, full-resolution preview of effects and content directly from the EDIUS timeline.

As for the HDSPARK board, it can handle any mix of high- and standard-definition (HD and SD) video content; unlimited video, audio, title and graphics layers; and any combination of real-time effects.

Grass Valley HD-Spark PCI Express Bus Card, Standa Features

  • HDMI output for full resolution real-time monitoring
  • Embedded HDMI audio output and separate RCA jacks for high-quality audio monitoring
  • Video and audio output stays perfectly in sync with editing windows for accurate editing and trimming
  • Edit any mix of SD- and HD resolution video content together in real time
  • Works with many different native video formats, including DV, HDV, AVCHD, uncompressed and more
  • Real-time SD/HD resolution, aspect-ratio and frame-rate conversion and output, including 16:9-to-4:3 and NTSC-to-PAL
  • New GPU-accelerated 3D transitions
  • Real-time editing performance increases as CPU power increases
  • Supports newer file-based formats, including Infinity JPEG 2000, XDCAM and XDCAM EX, P2 (DVCPRO and AVC-Intra) and GFCam
  • Compatible with Windows XP and Windows Vista

What's in the box:

  • Grass Valley / Canopus HD-Spark PCI Express x1 Bus Card (Standalone)
  • Hardware Setup Manual
  • Grass Valley / Canopus 1 Year Limited Warranty