HDLink is incredibly flexible!

HDLink is incredibly flexible, whether it's used in edit suites or out on location. LCD monitoring has the advantage of being lightweight, full HD resolution and absolutely no noise because it's digital-to-screen.

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Ideal Edit Suite Monitoring

Need the ideal HD monitoring solution for edit suites, design workstations or broadcast graphics? HDLink is perfect because it's digital direct to the LCD screen for full resolution HD 2D/3D display, that's much better than a CRT! Unlike SDI input cards on CRT monitors, HDLink will let you change between standard definition and HD instantly. Now you change your edit suite over without delay, so your clients aren't kept waiting!

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Big Screen Cinema Style Monitoring

Clients love good quality monitoring and HDLink is ideal for client monitoring because of its HDMI support. HDLink's HDMI support allows you to digitally connect to a wide range of consumer televisions, large screen plasmas and video projectors for incredible quality monitoring. LCD televisions are brighter and larger than computer monitors, so your clients get a full cinema experience using HDLink. You can even use the custom lookup tables to calibrate for accurate color. HD video with an all digital connection to a large screen TV, looks incredible in 2D or 3D! Because HDMI video connections are limited to shorter lengths, HDLink is ideal when you need to connect to video projectors with digital quality. Run SDI connections up to your ceiling mounted video projector, and use HDLink to convert to HDMI locally.

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2K Feature Film Monitoring

HDLink supports the new 3 Gb/s SDI so you can connect to any device that supports 2K via SDI playback such as Blackmagic Design's Multibridge Eclipse. 2K via SDI brings the workflow advantages of SDI video to feature film production. Imagine being able to pipe around 2K film resolution video throughout your facility and using the same connections that normally handle SD and HD video. HDLink also includes 3D lookup tables so you can load your custom developed tables for matching film stocks. HDLink also allows 3D lookup tables to be output on the loop through SDI output, so you can use it as in line SDI processing. 6 channel audio outputs are included so monitoring in 5.1 surround sound is easy and low cost.

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Video Assist on Location

A large 24" LCD panel makes the perfect viewing environment on-set. If you're doing the highest budget feature film, or a quick corporate video shoot your crew will love viewing on a large monitor. Because you get full resolution you can check framing as well as camera focus. If you're using Panasonic™ or Grass Valley Viper™ cameras, then HDLink includes lookup tables for viewing direct output from the camera with gamma encoding removed. HDLink's advanced 3D lookup tables allow simulation of film stocks so you can see what your images will look like when projected on the big screen!.

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A Perfect Match for the Telecine Suite

Telecine suites are one of the most demanding monitoring environments, and have been the exclusive domain of large grade-1 CRT monitors. While most post production telecine colorists would argue that for critical monitoring only a CRT can give you a good indication of field movement. When combined with HDLink and a good LCD monitor, telecine monitoring is greatly enhanced because LCD monitors don't suffer from afterglow, noise, analog losses or interference. That means telecine chain alignment is much more accurate. Because HDLink displays full resolution HD video, telecine colorists can set focus to unprecedented accuracy, and with the Blue Only feature, film grain and telecine noise can be easily seen. Because HDLink is fully digital from SDI onto the DVI LCD screen, no noise can be introduced onto the LCD display environment, making a perfect noise free monitoring solution.

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Includes 3D Lookup Tables

For matching LCD display colorimetry and simulating various types of film stocks, HDLink Pro model features more advanced 3D lookup tables. Advanced 3D lookup tables increase color control because a blend of red, green and blue video can be output to each primary color on the connected display. Only advanced 3D lookup tables can give full color control for accurate simulation of almost any feature film stock. Lookup tables are fully adjustable via a high speed USB 2.0 host computer connection using the included HDLink Utility software for Windows and Mac OS X. Custom lookup tables also allow film industry log video to be converted to linear for monitoring when used for feature film work. Preset gamma tables for Panasonic™ and Grass Valley Thomson Viper cine-gamma are included.

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Analog Audio Monitoring Output

Audio outputs are de embedded from the SDI input and then converted to analog at an incredible 24 bit. HDLink supports 6 channels out allowing easy monitoring of 5.1 surround sound audio. Audio is output on RCA connectors so you can easily connect to standard HiFi systems. If the connected display requires pull-down processing then HDLink will apply a variable audio delay ensuring perfect audio to video sync. To protect speakers and eliminate loud pops and other audio glitches, HDLink gently mutes the audio if video formats change or when SDI signals are connected and disconnected.