MILPITAS, CA - Blackmagic Design, the maker of video
cards and conversion products, has announced support for the new Apple Mac Pro
systems based on Intel Xeon processors. All Blackmagic Design PCI Express-based
video capture cards are supported as a free update from the Blackmagic Design
Website (www.blackmagic-design.com).
Supported
products include DeckLink HD Extreme, DeckLink HD Pro 4:4:4 PCIe, DeckLink SP PCIe,
DeckLink Extreme PCIe, Multibridge Extreme and Multibridge Pro.
Testing by the
company has shown that when the Mac Pro is outfitted with 3 x 500 MB SATA disks,
internally mounted and striped with RAID 0 configuration, approximately 170
MB/sec disk array performance was achieved. This allows customers to build
lower cost HD disk arrays for simple capture and playback tasks. For higher
performance editing solutions, Blackmagic Design's testing has shown Apple's
Xserve RAID works well as a high performance uncompressed HDTV disk array.
“This is an
exciting time for our customers because the processor to memory speed of these
new systems is dramatically higher than previously available on the Mac
platform,” says Blackmagic Design’s CEO Grant Petty. “This allows more video
effects, more layers and more complex design work to run realtime, while
providing much higher performance for uncompressed HD and uncompressed 2K
feature film rendering.”