Convert DVI (Academic)

DESCRIPTION
Matrox Convert DVI lets you convert high-resolution DVI sources into HD or SD video for broadcast, display, and recording. It takes your DVI output and converts it to high-quality SDI and analog video simultaneously. You get a variety of high-end features at a low price. Matrox Convert DVI lets you output your entire computer screen or focus on details in a region of interest of any size within the larger resolution. Genlock with timing offset controls, an advanced downscaling algorithm, a flicker reduction filter, and one-to-one pixel mapping ensure optimal quality and flexibility.

Matrox Convert DVI is a multi-purpose device. It’s ideal for creating broadcast video from computer applications such as video games, PowerPoint presentations, YouTube videos, Google Earth animations, and web browser sessions. It’s a user-friendly way to create software application training videos. It’s the perfect appliance to drive projectors and large displays at live events and in houses of worship. And it’s a very low-cost HD preview monitoring solution for video editors using applications such as Avid Media Composer.

In applications where the DVI signal is not coming from a computer, but from a camera or medical device for example, Matrox Convert DVI can operate independently of a PC to deliver SDI and analog video.

NEW! Mac drivers are now available for the Convert DVI family. The feature set for Mac release 1.0 includes full control over the output resolution, analog output type, genlock settings, and anti-fl icker filter along with the ability to program the unit for stand-alone mode. With Convert DVI Plus you can take full advantage of upscaling and the freeze/unfreeze function.

Matrox ConvertUtils 3.0 provides the following new features:

• Redesigned control panel, and new output scaling and preview window.
• Improved region-of-interest functionality, including panning with real-time output. 
• Chinese localization of user interface.
• Support for Convert DVI Plus

Matrox ConvertUtils 2.0 provides stability improvements, and the following new features:

• Support for Microsoft Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate 64-bit, and Windows 7 Home Premium (both 32- and 64-bit). 
• Advanced display mode setup that lets you configure Convert DVI with 50 Hz EDIDs (Extended Display Identification Data). This allows Convert DVI to accept 50 Hz display modes from your display card, which maximizes video output quality for 25 fps and 50 fps broadcast.
  

Key Features

• DVI input up to 1920 x 1200
• Digital outputs: HD/SD SDI
• Stereo audio input can be embedded into the SDI output signal
• Analog outputs: HD/SD analog component, S-Video, and composite
• Simultaneous analog and digital output
• SD analog black burst (bi-level) or HD tri-level genlock with timing offset controlsReal-time HD to SD hardware downscaling with proper color space and aspect ratio conversion
• Region of interest output support
• Anti-flicker filter
• Can operate as a stand-alone appliance

Inputs and Outputs

• Input
  • Matrox Convert DVI accepts common DVI-D signal resolutions up to 1920x1200. A third-party HDMI to DVI adapter lets you use Matrox Convert DVI with compatible HDMI sources.
• Output
  • Matrox Convert DVI provides a full complement of outputs including HD/SDSDI, HD/SD analog component, S-Video, and composite. Your choice of analog output and the SDI output are simultaneously live. Supported output standards:
    • NTSC
    • PAL
    • HD 1280x720p at 50 and 59.94 fps
    • HD 1920x1080i at 25 and 29.97 fps
• Audio support
  • Matrox Convert DVI accepts stereo audio input. The audio input is routed to the audio output for monitoring and is embedded into all eight channels of the SDI signal.

  Rear View

Genlock

Matrox Convert DVI can be genlocked to a SD analog black burst (bi-level) or HD tri-level genlock source. Horizontal and vertical timing offset controls can be used to align your video output relative to your external genlock source to compensate for cable delays within your facility.

High-quality hardware downscaling

Matrox Convert DVI will output full resolution 1080i HD video or you can choose to downscale to 720p or SD. Proper conversion of the HD color space to the SD color space and proper aspect ratio conversion to anamorphic, letterbox, and center cut are provided.

Region of interest

Matrox Convert DVI lets you output your entire computer screen or focus on details in a region of interest of any size within the larger resolution. The region of interest can be selected by entering screen coordinates or by simply clicking and dragging your mouse over the area you want to output. If your region of interest is larger than your selected output standard, Matrox Convert DVI will automatically downscale it to fit.

Flicker reduction

Matrox Convert DVI provides a anti-flicker filter to reduce artifacts that result from converting progressive images to interlaced video, resulting in a more stable output.

Stand-alone mode

Matrox Convert DVI is controlled and configured by a PC-based user interface via a USB connection. Once configured, the box can be programmed to behave as a stand-alone appliance so that the control PC can then be disconnected. This lets you use another DVI device as your input such as a camera, Mac computer, medical device, or even another PC. When Convert DVI is in standalone mode, the settings cannot be tampered with and configuration information is maintained when the unit is turned off.

SPECIFICATIONS

• Specifications
  • General: Works with DVI devices such as computers, cameras, and medical devices
  • Video standards: NTSC, PAL, NTSC-EIAJ, 1080i, 720p
  • Regulatory compliance: FCC Class A, CE Mark Class A, C-Tick Mark, VCCI; RoHS Directive 2002/95/EC
  • Dimensions 151mm (L) × 161mm (W) × 46mm (H)
  • External AC/DC adapter 
    • Now ships with a universal power supply!
    • 100-240 VAC 50-60 Hz
    • Input: IEC320-C8 inlet
    • Output: +5V DC, 3A max., 2.5mm barrel type
    • Dimensions: 95mm (L) × 54mm (W) × 32mm (H)
    • Total power consumption 10 watts
• Connections
  • DVI input and output: DVI-I (single-link) 29-pin female connector
  • Audio input: 1/8in stereo minijack
  • Genlock reference input: SD analog black burst (bi-level) or
    • HD tri-level sync
    • BNC connector (75 O), terminated
    • Timing offset controls provided
  • SDTV SDI output SD-SDI with 8 channels of embedded SDI audio
    • 24-bit, 48 kHz
    • BNC connector (75 O)
    • Compliant with SMPTE 259M-C, SMPTE 272M
  • SDTV S-Video and composite video output PAL, NTSC, NTSC-EIAJ
    • Frequency response: +/- 0.25 dB max to 5 MHz 2T pulse response: 0.5% max
    • Diff. Gain and Diff. Phase: < 2%
    • BNC connectors (75 O)
  • SDTV analog component video output Betacam, Betacam SP (NTSC and NTSC-EIAJ)
    • SMPTE/EBU N10 (PAL)
    • Frequency response Y: +/- 0.25 dB max to 5 MHz
    • Frequency response Pb, Pr: +/-0.2 dB max to 2 MHz
    • Component channel delay: +/- 3 ns
    • Component S/N (Y, Pb, Pr): > 54 dB, unified weighted
    • BNC connectors (75 O)
  • HDTV SDI output HD-SDI with 8 channels of embedded SDI audio
    • 24-bit, 48 kHz
    • Compliant with SMPTE 292M, SMPTE 299M
    • BNC connector (75 O)
  • HDTV analog component video output Supported video formats:
    • 1080i 50, 1080i 59.94, 720p 59.94
    • Compliant to EIA-770.3
    • Frequency response Y: +/- 0.3 dB max to 28 MHz
    • Frequency response Pb, Pr: +/- 0.4 dB max to 14 MHz
    • Component channel delay: +/- 0.5 ns
    • Component S/N (Y, Pb, Pr): > 57 dB, unified weighted
    • BNC connectors (75 O)

INCLUDED ITEMS

• Convert DVI
• MXO cable – DVI and system audio loop-through, 1 meter
• External AC-DC adapter
• Power cord
• Y/C video adapter

REQUIREMENTS
For initial configuration, Matrox Convert DVI requires a computer with the following system configuration:

• Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional or Ultimate (32 AND 64-bit), or Windows XP Professional (32-bit) with Service Pack 3.
• Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and 10.7 (Lion).
• One free USB 2.0 port.
• A PCIe display card that supports two DVI-D outputs. It is recommended that you connect Convert DVI to the secondary DVI connector, and connect your primary DVI monitor to the other connector.
• An optional DVI monitor that supports digital input can be used to preview the Convert DVI desktop. A native display resolution of 1920×1200 is recommended for previewing all HD formats.