Bluefish444 Introduces Cross-platform SD|Fidelity, SD|Focus, and SD|Prime Video Cards for Uncompressed Post-production Workflow

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Bluefish444's new SD Fidelity, SD Focus and SD Prime SDI PCI Express video cards, compatible with the industry's most popular NLE and compositing applications for Windows and Macintosh, are now immediately available.

SD Fidelity, SD Focus and SD Prime are multi-purpose uncompressed SD-SDI / analog video cards that cater to boutique and studio video professionals, offering a unique number of video and audio I/O connections and options.

SD Fidelity, SD Focus and SD Prime on Windows
SD Fidelity, SD Focus and SD Prime support Adobe Production Studio, Windows Media Encoder, Autodesk Combustion, Autodesk 3D Studio Max, Eyeon Digital Fusion, and many other compositing and graphics applications.

SD Fidelity, SD Focus and SD Prime are bundled with Bluefish444's Symmetry software application. Symmetry is an acquisition, review and playout solution specifically developed for graphic artists working with uncompressed video on Windows. Supporting a range of industry standard file formats, it provides a cost effective and simple way for graphic artists to frame-accurately acquire, review and play out video projects in YUV or RGB color space. Symmetry supports playlist, clip editing and EDL import features, eliminating the need to use a complicated NLE package for preview and basic editing processes.

Symmetry is continually updated with new features specifically designed to improve graphic artists' workflow and ease of use.

SD Fidelity, SD Focus and SD Prime are supported by the Bluefish444 Direct Show filters contained in the Windows driver. Direct Show filters make SD Fidelity, SD Focus and SD Prime seamlessly operational with any Direct Show-based application, significantly increasing the number of applications that the video cards are capable of supporting.

SD Fidelity, SD Focus and SD Prime with Apple Final Cut Studio
SD Fidelity, SD Focus and SD Prime have PCI Express interfaces and offer Universal Binary driver support, making them compatible with Intel and Power PC-based Mac workstations. A unified driver supporting Apple Final Cut Studio, Tiger OS X and QuickTime 7 will ship for free as standard with all three cards.

SD Fidelity, SD Focus and SD Prime Final Cut Pro users can use compression codecs including DV, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, and Photo JPEG I/O for low bit rate projects. Also supported is Final Cut Pro's RT Extreme architecture, enabling seamless realtime playback of effects such as 3 way color correction as well as additive dissolves and cross dissolves, eliminating the need to render.

SD Fidelity, SD Focus and SD Prime support desktop preview, allowing an SD-SDI monitor to function as a second desktop. This gives digital artists the ability to view content on a broadcast monitor.

SD Fidelity, SD Focus and SD Prime will support Apple QuickTime-compatible applications such as Combustion, Adobe After Effects and Photoshop. Bluefish444 is committed to supporting future operating system releases, QuickTime releases, Final Cut Studio releases and workstation releases from Apple as free driver upgrades for SD Fidelity, SD Focus and SD Prime.

Availability and Pricing
SD Fidelity, SD Focus and SD Prime are available immediately for Windows. A Macintosh driver for Intel and PowerPC-based workstations will be made freely available later in the second quarter of 2007. The U.S. suggested retail prices are $1,495 for SD Fidelity, $1,295 for SD Focus, and $995 for SD Prime.

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Please call 1-866-314-7785 for more information.

Labels: Bluefish444, PCI-Express, SD|Fidelity, SD|Focus, SD|Prime

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