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Quadro Digital Video Pipeline is based on the NVIDIA CUDA architecture and was developed specifically for professional use in television, new media and film production. The system offers the fastest available graphics processing for video production on a flexible and cost-effective workstation or server platform.
Quadro Digital Video Pipeline is the ideal solution for professional users who want to achieve high quality, graphics-intensive effects and virtual sets in their productions. The ability to process images directly through the GPU enables users to generate broadcasts with high graphics quality in real time.
“The performance characteristics of Quadro Digital Video Pipeline make it possible for the first time to use four HD cameras simultaneously for live broadcasts with a simple workstation. This significantly reduces studio costs,” emphasizes Steve Hart, Development Director at London’s RT Software, a provider of real-time 3D solutions for broadcasters worldwide. “The immense graphics power of Quadro Digital Video Pipeline means television producers can create virtual environments that are up to five times more detailed than was previously possible.”
By using the CUDA architecture on NVIDIA GPUs, Quadro Digital Video Pipeline can also rapidly generate and transcode HD broadcast video for use in Internet streams.
Elemental Technologies, a leading provider of video-processing solutions, will use Quadro Digital Video Pipeline as a central component of the future Elemental Server. The new system offers fast and highly efficient video transcoding using GPUs.
Andy Beach, VP Marketing at Elemental Technologies, explains: “With the computing power of four NVIDIA GPUs, Elemental Server can encode 1080p HD video streams simultaneously in real time. We previously needed 14 quad-core CPUs for this.”
The Features of Quadro Digital Video Pipeline Provide
* SDI Video Capture enables uncompressed video streaming directly to Quadro GPU memory (with SDI output), with up to four HD-SDI sources captured simultaneously
* Visual Effects Creation enables 2D and 3D visual effects and real-time HD video transcoding using the NVIDIA CUDA parallel-computing architecture
* SDI Video Output provides an integrated graphics-to-video solution that can combine 2D and 3D effects in real time with 2K, HD and SD video.
Further Links:
- NVIDIA
