Blackmagic Design on Friday issued DeckLink 4.7, an update to the software for its DeckLink SD and HD video cards that adds several new features, including Varicam support for allowing low data rate uncompress high-definition editing on all DeckLink HD cards and two changes for DeckLink HD Pro cards: new hardware down conversion that provides simultaneous HD and Standard Definition (SD) output and 14-bit 5x over-sampled composite NTSC/PAL video output. In addition, all DeckLink cards can now down-convert HDTV to Anamorphic SDTV and the software’s system preferences now contain options for software and hardware down comversion. This software is a free download from the Blackmagic Design Web site.
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