The NVIDIA® Quadro® Digital Video Pipeline (DVP) delivers the industry’s first fully integrated GPU-based solution for acquisition, processing and delivery of high resolution video providing the lowest system latency for real-time compositing. Leveraging the NVIDIA® CUDA™ parallel computing architecture, the Quadro Digital Video Pipeline also delivers unmatched, real-time video processing. The Quadro Digital Video Pipeline enables advanced capabilities for graphics rich production and delivery of video for broadcast, post production, film and new media.

Digital Broadcast and Video
The Quadro Digital Video Pipeline is leveraged by video professionals who work on shows that feature virtual sets or effects, sportscasts, weather, and news. The integrated Quadro Digital Video Pipeline enables capture of SD-, HD-, 2K-, 3G-SDI video footage, in real time, directly to the GPU, composite virtual effects or video processing using the CUDA parallel computing architecture, and then send the final result to live TV.

Film Production, Post-Production, and Finishing
Quadro SDI Capture enables SDI video capture in up to 12-bit color directly to the GPU for capture of source content from camera, film scanners, digital data recorders (DDRs), video tape recorders (VTRs). In addition, the SDI Output solution enables accurate real-time preview on SDI monitors or projectors.

New Media Markets
Offering the fastest path for capturing and encoding broadcast quality video, the Quadro Digital Video Pipeline delivers the ideal platform for new media markets, such as GPU-based encoding for internet video streaming.

The tightly integrated family of products includes:
Quadro SDI Capture card enables multi-stream, uncompressed video to be streamed directly to Quadro SDI-enabled GPU memory

• Capture up to 4 HD-SDI Single link sources simultaneously
• Supports all SMPTE standard formats (3G, 2K, HD and SD) through 75 Ohm BNC connectors
• Indicator LEDs on the bracket provide easy error detection
• Monitor out can be used as a sync source for the optional SDI Output card

• Enables genlock to external house sync or sync to Quadro SDI Capture card
• Supports 2K, HD and SD video formats uncompressed 8-bit, 10-bit or 12-bit SDI
• Combines with SDI-enabled Quadro graphics board

• CUDA GPU architecture for compatibility with all CUDA-based applications
• Up to 4 GB of graphics memory
• Dual and single slot solutions
• Compatible Solutions:
Quadro FX 5800
Quadro FX 4800
Quadro FX 3800

The NVIDIA Quadro SDI SDK provides ease of programmability and control of the entire Quadro Digital Video pipeline – acquisition, processing and delivery.