Tech Corner: 10 Reasons You Need an Osprey 530
01 Professional Features for Broadcasters
Features like color space conversion, automatic telecine detection
and processing, automatic optimization for changing motion content, and many other features make this a perfect choice for the broadcast professionals.
And… if the video source goes away unexpectedly, the Osprey 530’s press on - regardless design lets you choose what to do about it, including automatically substituting internally generated SMPTE color bars with an optional text overlay.
02 Compatibility with Popular Application Software
Osprey cards work great with all popular video capture and encoding
applications, including our own Niagara SCX multi-codec streaming manager. Some of those other cards lock you in to a select few applications.
03 Optimized for Live Streaming
Sure, you can buy lower-cost cards designed for editing workstations or security/surveillance applications that can be used for simple Internet streaming. But they don’t offer designed-for-live features like Logo Bitmap Overlay with transparency controls. Or automatic detection and processing when the input video changes from Movie frame rates to Television frame rates. The Osprey 530 can do the job today and is ready for your future applications.
04 Multiple Streams Per Input
With the optional SimulStream feature, the Osprey 530 can feed multiple encoders – as many as your host PC can support- at the same time. Use it with ViewCast’s Niagara SCX to easily create and manage live streams in Real Networks, Windows Media, Flash Live Video, and MPEG-4 at the same time, in any combination. Or, create multiple streams of the same type with completely independent settings for sizing, scaling, watermarking, and bit rate. Those other guys may support two streams, per channel…but they can’t touch this!
05 Global standards support
Like all Osprey cards, the Osprey 530 supports all global analog and standard-definition SDI standards. NTSC, PAL, SECAM… and some strange variants found throughout the globe. If you are a global OEM integrator seeking a single-solution deployment strategy, this card’s for you.
06 Industry- proven performance
Over 250,000 Osprey cards are in daily worldwide operation in a wide variety of commercial, industrial, and broadcast applications. You’ll find Osprey 530 capture cards in mission-critical applications throughout the world.
07 Rock-solid stability
Legendary Osprey reliability means you can count on rocksolid performance, day in and day out.
08 SDI signal tolerance
The Osprey 530 includes special SDI signal capture and processing technology, so it can handle long SDI cable runs with suboptimum cable quality with no loss of performance. You won’t find that feature in other capture cards!
09 Mix and match with other Osprey® capture cards
Use multiple Osprey cards in the same machine. You can even freely mix and match with other Osprey models. Try that with your average computer-store capture card!
10 Continuous Feature and Performance Enhancements
Exceptional value for the global installed base of Osprey cards via a program of continuous driver updates and feature enhancements. Legendary Osprey quality meets long-term commitment. We’ve been designing and producing innovative Osprey cards since 1996…and we don’t intend to stop now!
-By Mark Hershey – V.P. of ViewCast Engineering