DeckLink 8K Pro will be available in early January for $645 from Blackmagic Design resellers worldwide.
Blackmagic Design has announced DeckLink 8K Pro, a new capture and playback card featuring quad link 12G-SDI to allow real time high resolution 8K workflows. This new DeckLink 8K Pro reportedly supports all film and video formats from SD all the way up to 8K DCI, 12-bit RGB 4:4:4, plus it also handles advanced colour spaces such as Rec. 2020 for deeper colour and higher dynamic range. DeckLink 8K also handles 64 channels of audio, stereoscopic 3D, high frame rates and more.
DeckLink 8K Pro will be available in early January for $645 from Blackmagic Design resellers worldwide.
In addition, Blackmagic Design has also announced a new price of $895 for DeckLink 4K Extreme 12G.
DeckLink 8K Pro will be demonstrated at InterBEE in Japan.
Featuring four quad link multi rate 12G-SDI connections, DeckLink 8K Pro can work in all SD, HD, Ultra HD, 4K, 8K and 8K DCI formats and is compatible with all existing professional SDI equipment.
The 12G-SDI connections are also bi-directional so they can be used to either capture or playback quad link 8K, or for the simultaneous capture and playback of single or dual link SDI sources.
The 8K images have 16 times more pixels than a regular 1080 HD image, which lets you reframe or scale shots with fidelity and precision. DeckLink 8K Pro also works in 12-bit RGB 4:4:4 as well as Rec. 2020, which is a colour space designed for high dynamic range Ultra HD and digital cinema work in 4K and 8K.
DeckLink 8K Pro supports capture and playback of 8 or 10-bit YUV 4:2:2 video and 10 or 12-bit RGB 4:4:4. Video can be captured as uncompressed or to industry standard broadcast quality ProRes and DNx files. DeckLink 8K Pro lets customers work at up to 60 frames per second in 8K and supports stereoscopic 3D for all modes up to 4K DCI at 60 frames per second in 12-bit RGB.
The broadcast technology in DeckLink 8K Pro is built into an 8-lane generation 3 PCI Express for Mac, Windows, and Linux workstations. Customers get support for all legacy SD and HD formats, along with Ultra HD, DCI 4K, 8K and DCI 8K, as well as Rec. 601, 709 and 2020 colour.
DeckLink 8K Pro is designed to work seamlessly with the upcoming DaVinci Resolve 14.2 Studio for an incredibly seamless editing, color and audio post production workflow that lets you master full resolution high dynamic range projects in full 8K resolution. In addition, DeckLink 8K Pro also works with other professional applications such as Final Cut Pro X, Media Composer, Premiere Pro, After Effects, ProTools, Nuke and more. Theres a free software development kit so customers and OEMs can build their own custom solutions.
DeckLink 8K Pro is our most advanced PCIe capture and playback card ever, said Grant Petty, Blackmagic Design CEO. Its exciting because the 8K images have so much clarity and detail that its as if youre looking out a window. Whether its for the 2020 Olympics or the next generation of Hollywood blockbusters, DeckLink 8K Pro has the speed, quality and compatibility customers need to do their best work!
