Viz Engine Administrator Guide

Version 3.12 | Published October 17, 2019 ©

BlueFish444 SD Lite Pro Express

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BlueFish444 SD Lite Pro Express provides Fill, Key and GenLock connectors, and is the successor of the BlueFish444 Iridium|SD and the Digital Voodoo DeepBlue LT, that are no longer officially supported.

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 workstations.

This section contains information on the following topics:

Connectors

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The BNC connectors from left to right are:

  • SDI Out A (Fill): SDI 4:2:2/4:4:4/Video

  • SDI Out B (Key): SDI 4:2:2/4:4:4/Video

  • Ref In: Analog GenLock input

Driver Installation

Use the driver version available on Vizrt’s FTP server to make sure of correct functionality and ringbuffer support.

Viz Artist/Engine Version

Driver

3.6.3

Bluefish444 v5.10.2.18

3.6.1

Bluefish444 v5.10.2.4

3.5.1

Bluefish444 v5.10.1.11

3.5

Bluefish444 v5.9.0.78

3.2.7

Bluefish444 v5.9.0.25

3.2.2

Bluefish444 v5.7.6

Note: Viz Engine 3.2.7 and 3.3.0 require the Bluefish444 v5.9.0.25 driver for all Digital Voodoo / Bluefish cards.