Viz Engine Administrator Guide
Version 3.13 | Published March 28, 2019 ©
BlueFish444 IridiumSD
BlueFish444 Iridium|SD is the native successor of the Digital Voodoo DeepBlue LT and the predecessor of BlueFish444 SD Lite Pro Express, providing Fill, Key, GenLock and Composite Fill connectors. The Iridium|SD is fully compatible with older DeepBlue-LT installations.
The card was mostly used with Viz Trio NV which basically was a system with the ability to run a Viz Trio client with local preview and video output on a single machine; hence, there was no video input or video playback support as with the Matrox X.mio Series. The local preview was able to render a different scene than the one being output on video. The card was typically seen on HP xw4600.
IMPORTANT! Supports for the Iridium|SD card ended with Viz Engine 3.5. For supported versions, see the most recent BlueFish444 cards.
Connectors
The BNC connectors from left to right are:
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SDI Out A (Fill) - SDI 4:2:2/4:4:4/Video
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SDI Out B (Key) - SDI 4:2:2/4:4:4/Video
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Ref In - Analog GenLock input
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Composite Out - Composite fill output
Driver Installation
The driver installation works the same way as for DeepBlue-LT cards. Use driver versions available on the Vizrt FTP server to make sure of correct functionality and ring buffer support.
Iridium|SD is fully compatible with existing DeepBlue-LT installations and can be used with any recent Viz version supporting the older DeepBlue-LT device.
Caution: Only Bluefish444 v3.1 is guaranteed to support an adequate ringbuffer size. Any other driver reduces or completely disables ringbuffer support.
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Viz Artist/Engine Version |
Driver |
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3.6.3 |
Bluefish444 v5.10.2.18 |
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3.6.1 |
Bluefish444 v5.10.2.4 |
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3.5.1 |
Bluefish444 v5.10.1.11 |
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3.5 |
Bluefish444 v5.9.0.78 |
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3.2.7 |
Bluefish444 v5.9.0.25 |
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3.2.2 |
Bluefish444 v5.7.6 |
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3.1.0-3532 |
Bluefish444 v3.1 |
Note: Viz Engine 3.2.7 and 3.3.0 require the Bluefish444 v5.9.0.25 driver for all Digital Voodoo / Bluefish cards.